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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: CRAP Poll: My Mouse Is...
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2024 06:30:06 -0000 (UTC)
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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 14:50 this Friday (GMT):
> On Fri, 14 Jun 2024 02:50:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
><candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
>
>>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:
>>>
>>>>Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> wrote at 20:11 this Wednesday (GMT):
>>>>> ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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. ;)
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Nope, I don't think I've ever had one. I tried converting one before but
>>>>it turns out its kinda hard.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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).
>>>
>>
>>I meant making a new MIDI file from mp3/wav/etc
>>
>
> 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.
>
> 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 ;-)
>
> 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 ;-)


Are there any Linux apps?
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