Re: Consequences of changing MIDI file suffix

[Matthias Neeracher]

On Friday, November 15, 2002, at 03:24 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

> address@hidden writes:
> > I'm currently thinking of patching lilypond on MacOS X so MIDI files
> > are generated with a suffix of .midi instead of .mid, as the former is
> > automatically recognized by QuickTime as a MIDI file, while the latter
> > is not.
>
> You must mean the other way around? Lily already outputs .midi files.

Yes, I'm sorry, its precisely the other way around. Lily outputs .midi, 
I'm
thinking of changing that to .mid on MacOS X.

Any thoughts on whether that is a good or bad idea in the overall 
scheme of things?

Matthias