Alexandre Ratchov wrote:
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 01:11:19PM -0700, Bob van der Poel wrote:
Anyone know of a little utility to convert SMF files from type 0 to type
1? I can do this one at a time with a seq like rosegarden, but I'd like
to bulk process a bunch of files.
hi,
you can import midi files of type 0 in midish (use a recent
snapshot) and export them back as SMF type 1. For instance the
follwing shell script should do it:
#!/bin/sh
for i; do
mv $i $i.old
echo "songimportsmf \"$i.old\"; songexportsmf \"$i\";" |midish
done
resulting files may slightly differ from original: certain events
are removed/modified/added to ensure consistency, system exclusive
messages are moved into the beggining of the track.
cheers,
-- Alexandre
Thanks! I've seen references to midish but never took the time to look.
Very interesting piece of work ... not sure if I'll use it.
The import/export does work. But, as you said it does tend to lose some
bits of meta data. Not sure if that is critical in what I'm doing. The
files do _sound_ the same.
Best.
--
Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA **
EMAIL: bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx
WWW: http://www.mellowood.ca
