Convert midi to mp3, without sound card ?

frenchn00b · 05-28-2008, 04:19 PM

Hello, I am trying to convert a midi to mp3, without sound card ? but with the timidity program, it requires a sound card

Any welcome ideas ?

i92guboj · 05-29-2008, 10:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frenchn00b

Hello, I am trying to convert a midi to mp3, without sound card ? but with the timidity program, it requires a sound card

Any welcome ideas ?

I haven't done it myself, but it shouldn't need a soundcard for anything. The whole point of timidity is to emulate a midi synthesizer when you lack midi hardware. How are you trying to do the conversion?

frenchn00b · 05-30-2008, 12:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by i92guboj

I haven't done it myself, but it shouldn't need a soundcard for anything. The whole point of timidity is to emulate a midi synthesizer when you lack midi hardware. How are you trying to do the conversion?

that s a very good question!

I only know timidity, but well, nothign worked.

i92guboj · 05-30-2008, 11:10 AM

I just found this

http://osdir.com/ml/audio.timidity++.../msg00008.html

Looking at the -O suboptions in the timidity man page I can't see mp3 listed, but it can also output to flac, vorbis and speex. It none of those can serve you, you can still convert it to plain wave and then compress it with lame or something to generate the mp3 you are looking for.

frenchn00b · 05-31-2008, 02:45 PM

thx, will try it.

I tried:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/MIDI-HOWTO-8.html

timidity
kmix
pmidi

no one works

frenchn00b · 05-31-2008, 02:48 PM

Code:

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is it with timidity ?

frenchn00b · 05-31-2008, 02:48 PM

here one can find thousnad midi files to try:
http://www.vgmusic.com/music/compute.../index-af.html

well nothing works for me

Emerson · 05-31-2008, 04:13 PM

Wild guess, maybe you have no patchset installed for timidity?