[LAU] Extracting the tempo track from a MIDI file

[Brendon Oliver]

On Tuesday 25 September 2007 12:00:38 Ken Restivo wrote:
> Is there any command-line tool to extract and print the tempo of a MIDI
> file?
>
> I suppose I could read the MIDI spec, and hack something up pretty quickly
> in Python/Perl/PD/C/etc to extract that data,  but why reinvent the wheel
> if there's already a tool that'll do that?

If you're going to write something in perl, have a look at MIDI-Perl:

http://search.cpan.org/~sburke/MIDI-Perl-0.81/

shouldn't be too hard to cobble up what you need with that.

cheers,

- Brendon.


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