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Anyone know how to get midis to play on an iPod?

The iPod doesn't have a midi instrument set.

So, the only way to get it to play a midi is to either:

1. Convert the midi to mp3

2. Install Linux on your iPod, and install a midi player like TiMidity.

Why the fuck would you want to play midis, unless you were the sort of musical person who understood how midis actually worked?

Stark wrote:Why the fuck would you want to play midis, unless you were the sort of musical person who understood how midis actually worked?

Because certain songs are very hard to find in anything other than midi format, and it would be a pain in the ass to convert them all.

*Really*? I remember using midis back in the 90s... but these days, that's nuts. I figured the only people who used them were still using old Roland add-on boards.

Well it's mostly video game music. They're rather rare in MP3 format.

Most games that have OSTs will get mp3 music. And most games do have OSTs these days, though you might have to import them.

But really, to play midis at anything like acceptable listening quality you need a whanger of an instrument set. I used to use one that weighed in at about 110MB when I had a bunch of Midi music. (also made old DOS games rock the house). The ones that most soundcards default to compress all the instruments into about 2MB if you're lucky, and sound like processed shit as a result.

Hey... how do you use proper soundsets with DOS soundcards?

observer_20000 wrote:Well it's mostly video game music. They're rather rare in MP3 format.

Not so rare if you know where to look. There are also the original sound format tracks which require either special stand-alone players or Winamp plugins. I don't know if those can be converted directly, but there's always the option of recording and then converting.

Stark wrote:Hey... how do you use proper soundsets with DOS soundcards?

Run the dos apps under Windows 98. It will emulate the DOS soundcard using the windows sound driver. At least it did with my old Soundblaster Live. I made Frontier sound great!