Re: CRAP Poll: My Mouse Is...

On Fri, 14 Jun 2024 02:50:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 17:08 this Thursday (GMT):

On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 01:40:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
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Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> wrote at 20:11 this Wednesday (GMT):

ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) writes:
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Do any of you still listen to MIDIs? I do once in a while: http://zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/files/music/music.html
That includes MOD, S3M, XM, IT, 669, FAR, etc. ;)

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I think it's been over 20 years, I had an HD issue but my mod collection
survived. Didn't get around to copying it off the failing drive as I
hadn't listened to the songs much.
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Well, I did replay Crusader: No Remorse recently. That was all Necros
mods as I recall. Lizardking was a favorite too, that much I remember.

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Nope, I don't think I've ever had one. I tried converting one before but
it turns out its kinda hard.

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It was fairly easy to convert MODs in WinAmp (remember WinAmp?*) You'd
queue up a tracker file (WinAmp had fairly robust support for most
formats), and then go into WinAmp 'plugins' and select the WaveOut
Output.***. The file would stream to a WAV file of the music which you
could then convert to FLAC or MP3 or whatver you wanted.
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It's how I got all my favorite MODs into my MP3 collection so I could
listen to them on the go (there are actually tracker players for
mobile devices, but it was just simpler to make them all MP3s than to
juggle different players).
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I meant making a new MIDI file from mp3/wav/etc
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Honestly, WinAmp can do that too (I mean, so can a lot of other apps,
but since I was hyping WinAmp before, might as well continue to do
so). It can do that with pretty much /any/ file it can play; it just
redirects the output to a WAV file instead of, you know, to your
speakers.
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Of course, the QUALITY of that music file will be heavily dependent on
whatever it is you use for MIDI playback. If you've got some sort of
high-end Yamaha XG50 soft-synth, it'll sound terrific. If you've
somehow managed to wedge a Soundblaster v1.0 with an OPL2 soundchip
into your modern laptop, it'll sound a lot less good (still, kudos for
getting an ISA soundcard into a 2024 laptop; that's some dark magic
right there and well worth the ear-bleed ;-)
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The Roland Emulator (MuNT) also has a direct MIDI-to-WAV output
feature, if you want to (mostly) recapture what a MIDI file would
sound like to a PC gamer with high-end gear in 1989 ;-)