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Hi Spencer
I think that you, Bill Brandon and Mark Fontana deserve a huge vote of thanks for all that you do to help members of our group.   Where I am in Scotland there is a dearth of Disklavier Technicians and I have found the help in this forum to be first class.
Best wishes and keep up the good work.
Owen

From: disklavier@yahoogroups.com [mailto:disklavier@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: 22 May 2016 08:44
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [disklavier] One Long MIDI File


It is difficult to automatically process files unless there is something consistent use for making decisions. the best solution would be to buy an inexpensive sequencer program (you can get old versions of Cakewalk for very little on e-bay) and spend a little time learning it. there are also some free programs but i forget their names.

i write programs that process midi files and have one that shortens files for the purpose of making sample files. it could be modified pretty easily to split a file into several pieces but there are a few requirements. there has to be something recognizable at the points where you want the splitting to occur. this could be a period of silence of a duration that did not occur elsewhere. then you need to be able to decide what to call the new files made. the program could just give them sequential number names and could duplicate all the internal text information in all the files.

i also have a midi file player that i wrote that could be modified to allow you to split a file while it was playing. You could split the file right after the first song and then have two files, the first part and the rest in another file. Then you could repeat the process until you had split off all the individual songs. This might be more of a job to write but not a huge effort. I am traveling and finding that i have some time while waiting for others and getting bored. I could probably use this dead time to write a program.

Although I really recommend getting a simple sequencer and learning how to use it, if there is sufficient interest i will write the file splitting program.

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------ Original Message ------
From: "Laurel Lapin Murlyne@PacBell.Net [disklavier]" <disklavier@yahoogroups.com>
To: "disklavier Yamaha group" <disklavier@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: 5/21/2016 6:48:41 PM
Subject: [disklavier] One Long MIDI File


Hello All,
Last night my granddaughter came over and played for an hour and now I have one long MIDI file that I would like to separate into songs. Is there a free and EASY way to do this? I have both a Mac and a PC. I am looking for a "no brainer" way to do it. I am old and not sophisticated when it comes to computers.

Thank you,
Grandpa