On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 07:03:56PM +0400, Mikhail Ramendik wrote: I've never had need for such a program, but your query prompted me to do a quick search, and I came across KMid => http://developer.kde.org/~larrosa/kmid.html Alternatively - if installing a GUI application seemed like somewhat of an overkill - you could install Sean Burke's MIDI-Perl perl Module => http://search.cpan.org/~sburke/MIDI-Perl-0.81/lib/MIDI.pm There is a synopsis on this page => http://search.cpan.org/~sburke/MIDI-Perl-0.81/lib/MIDI/Event.pm showing how to extract the text events from a MIDI (.mid) file. It works with Karaoke (.kar) files as well. You would need to modify the code somewhat to tailor the output according to your needs, but it's a start anyway. I'm not acquainted with the format of midi files, and someone else will quite possibly have better suggestions. HTH -- http://hl.afraid.org/~david/ --