Peter McCulloch

Does anybody know a way of finding out the length of a midifile without 

having to play through it? (i.e. something akin to sfinfo~ for midi 

I'm working on a patch that converts a midi-file to a bitmasked 

buffer~. Currently I'm playing through the file in real-time, but it 

Does anybody know a way of finding out the length of a midifile without 
having to play through it?  (i.e. something akin to sfinfo~ for midi 
files)

I'm working on a patch that converts a midi-file to a bitmasked 
buffer~.  Currently I'm playing through the file in real-time, but it 
there's a faster way, it'd be nice...

duration-of-midi-file

I do this with jit.qt.movie. Quicktime reads and plays midi files so you

can read them into jit.qt.movie, ask the right questions, et voila!

I do this with jit.qt.movie.  Quicktime reads and plays midi files so you
can read them into jit.qt.movie, ask the right questions, et voila!

Cheers,
Gary Lee Nelson
TIMARA Department
Oberlin College
www.timara.oberlin.edu/GaryLeeNelson


Java ? You may use the javax.sound.midiFileFormat class, then request 

its microsecondsLength (long) field/property. I'm about to put it in my 

MidiConverter object, in order to make it a kind of [mfinfo], for those 

who don't own Jitter (as Gar says, you may also use jit.qt.movie for 

Java ? You may use the javax.sound.midiFileFormat class, then request 
its microsecondsLength (long) field/property. I'm about to put it in my 
MidiConverter object, in order to make it a kind of [mfinfo], for those 
who don't own Jitter (as Gar says, you may also use jit.qt.movie for 
this...)

Any chance you have a java applet that plays type 1 midi files?

Duration of midi file