[linux-audio-dev] Libs for reading/writing midis

[Mario Lang]

Florian Schmidt <mista.tapas at gmx.net> writes:

> On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 11:52:44 +0200
> Mario Lang <mlang at delysid.org> wrote:
>
>> Reusability of code is a quite valid point, and I thought the OP's
>> question was quite interesting.
>> 
>> We shouldn't define ourselves in terms of what windows does.  Frankly, I don't
>> care anymore, its now 8 years since I switched to Linux completely.
>> 
>> libmidifile would be cute, is any of the existing codebases flexible
>> enough so that it could be massaged into a nice lib?
>
> vote++ to everything you said. dunno about any existing midi code though
> flexible enough to be put into a lib.. After taking a glance at
> rosegarden and muse's source it seems there's always app specifics
> intertwined.

Sure, *because* there wasn't a standard midifile library around in the first
place, they all hacked it into the program directly, therefore it is
intertwined :-).

> Wasn't a midi file pretty much a simple dump of midi events anyways?

That is mostly true for type 0 files, but type 1 (and especially 2) is
a bit more involved.  And of course, there are the SMF meta events.

-- 
CYa,
  Mario