[LAU] Extracting the tempo track from a MIDI file

[Alexandre Ratchov]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 07:00:38PM -0700, Ken Restivo wrote:
> 
> Is there any command-line tool to extract and print the tempo of
> a MIDI file?
> 

hi, 

you could use midish for that: import the .mid file, and use the
songtimeinfo function; example:

$ rmidish  
send EOF character (control-D) to quit
1> songimportsmf "sample.mid"
2> songtimeinfo
{
        timesig 4 24
        tempo 400000
}
3> 

cheers,

-- Alexandre