Re: Midi file

Yes, I understood what you said, and refer you to my first answer ;-)

The MIDI *data* you burned to a CD which could be played in media
player was just that - instructions to the PC to play a series of
musical notes. In fact you burnt a *Data CD*

To play the music in a standalone CD player, you'd need to burn an
*Audio CD*, which you cannot do with MIDI data because it's not an
audio waveform - which a CD player could play back - but a series of
musical notes which must be interpreted by a keyboard or drum machine
or a PC's media player / quicktime / etc.

So - Did you buy that audio cable yet ? ;-))

HTH
Cheers - Neil

On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 16:14:00 -0800, chequer
<chequer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I may not have expressed my question correctly.
I downloaded a lot of carols, all Midi sequence files, and burnt them to a CD
They copied to the CD Ok and can be played by W Media Player if I go '
Explore the CD ' then R/click and select Play. This also opens ' Windows
Media Player ' Ver 9.00
After playing one I can then play the rest by WMP/File/ Open the selecting.
If I put the disc in my CD drive I can't get them to AutoPlay nor will they
play in a CD Player.
As you will guess from this I know absolutely nothing about Windows Media
Player
or how to use it.
chequer


"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:

On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 19:07:01 -0800, chequer
<chequer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Can a midi file be played from a CD, or can they be converted to a wma , wav
file or a type that can be played?


You can only really record the playback of your sound card (using a
looped cable from Line Out to Line In) for MIDI - it's a series of
notes or instructions to play notes, rather than an actual sound wave
stored as digital data (like WAV and ~advisedly~ WMA formats are)

Typically I'd use software like Audacity for recording the sound
produced by the sound card - whlie I might play the MIDI file back
using Quicktime or Media player to produce the actual sound output.

You can download Audacity from http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
A stereo cable to go from socket to socket would probably be no more
than a couple of dollars - try Frys or Circuit City (or, Maplin or RS
in the UK)

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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