This snippet takes MIDI filenames on the command line and reads them in and dumps the necessary Perl code to recreate the MIDI file.

Updated! Now creates a complete Perl script.

#!/perl/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use MIDI;
for my $midi (@ARGV) {
  open(*STDOUT, ">", "$midi.pl");
  print <<'EOP';
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use MIDI;
my $opus =
EOP
  my $opus = MIDI::Opus->new({ 'from_file' => $midi, 'no_parse' => 1 }
+);
  $opus->dump( { dump_tracks => 1 } );
  print "\$opus->write_to_file('$midi');\n";
}

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In reply to Dump MIDI as Perl Code by Mr. Muskrat

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