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Looking for MIDI file manager

2006-10-30 by Aaron Zornes

OK ... I have tried the idea of iTunes with MIDI files and am unable 
after 2 days to get anywhere ... am using iTunes 7.0.1 on Windows XP 
Pro (and Home) SP 2 ... no capability or postings anywhere )except 
here by nice PianoDisk people) about how to do so ... 
Inability to get it working (plus reticence to depend on iTunes in 
general for this "mission-critical app" as I have used it for 5 
years with my multiple generations of iPods and found it scary at 
times in terms of trashing our iPods) ... means I am walking from 
this path

SO HOW DOES ONE MANAGE THOUSANDS OF MIDI FILES?

I have practically all the Yamaha collections, plus everything PG 
Music published (great stuff, all but 4 titles out of print, jazz, 
Latin Jazz, New Orleans, Blues, Gospel, Classical Pianists series 
(16+ floppies alone), etc.) plus TUNES 1000 and Passport Software of 
Santa Cruz with several thousand Pro MIDI tunes ...

I am looking for jukebox capability … to manage thousands of MIDI 
files, search them by title, genre, composer, etc. and group them 
into playlists or other collections ...

I have talked to Yamaha tech support as I considered upgrading DC6A 
MK III to same MK IV configuration but found the price differential 
not worth it (yet) ... that and I found its 80GB (41GB user usable) 
HD inadequate even with the USB add-on drive (USB1 only) and fact 
that that it creates WAV files and not MP3 when ripping your 
personal audio CDs ... I had considered using MK IV PC tablet as 
high tech user interface to manage *all* our thousands of audio CDs 
and MIDI files but it is a "no go"

I have searched modestly for shareware or pro software and can't 
seem to find a modest file manager as described above (jukebox 
capability ... to manage thousands of MIDI files, search them by 
title, genre, composer, etc. and group them into playlists or other 
collections)

DOES ANYONE KNOW OF SUCH A PROGRAM?

Thanks!

--Aaron in San Francisco

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