----- Original Message -----From: Aaron ZornesSent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 4:14 PMSubject: [disklavier] Looking for MIDI file managerOK ... 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
Message
Re: [disklavier] Looking for MIDI file manager
2006-10-30 by Richard Kerr
Aaron:
I fogot to mention that MIDICAT comes as close to doing what you want as
any program I have found so far for playing MIDI files. However, it has
limitations and that is why I moved to creating the MS Access database. You
may want to take a look though: http://midicat.net/
Richard Kerr