Re: MIDI and Lyrics

[Michiel Lange]

Ah, great... I figured that with WinAmp I could get this info... I was 
wondering which mediaplayer it was I could see the lyrics with...
Anyway... I could now see the lyrics, but there's something strange with 
it... It can be the problem of WinAmp, or something about Midi in general:
all the spaces are gone (ok... most of them) and everthing is on a 
single line... I went to the Mutopia project page to find out if this 
could be remedied with some exoting settings, but all the songs I 
checked had the same problem...

Is this a winamp problem or a midi problem, or are those spaces and 
newlines (even when I enter a hardcoded newline ^M) really gone? The 
funny thing is that when I use underscores (_) for spaces, the 
formatting in the midi file seems okayish, but then my paper is messed 
up... As I find paper more important that was the obvious choice I made 
of course...

Still thanks for pointing out to me what I was doing wrong...

Michiel

Mats Bengtsson wrote:

> The lyrics lines are included in the LilyPond MIDI output,
> but I guess it depends on the MIDI player you use.
> For example, I tried to run mf2t
> (http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/mf2t/) on the output
> from the melody-lyrics.ly template and it gives:
>
> MFile 1 3 384
> MTrk
> 0 Meta Text "Creator: GNU LilyPond 2.2.0            "
> 0 Meta Text "Generated automatically by: GNU LilyPond 2.2.0            "
> 0 Meta Text "at Tue Apr 27 10:40:42 2004                                 "
> 0 Meta Text "at Tue Apr 27 10:40:42 2004                                 "
> 0 Meta SeqName "Track 0"
> 0 Meta TrkEnd
> TrkEnd
> MTrk
> 0 On ch=1 n=69 v=127
> 0 TimeSig 4/4 18 8
> 0 Meta TrkName ""
> 0 Tempo 1000000
> 384 Off ch=1 n=69 v=64
> 384 On ch=1 n=71 v=127
> 768 Off ch=1 n=71 v=64
> 768 On ch=1 n=72 v=127
> 1152 Off ch=1 n=72 v=64
> 1152 On ch=1 n=74 v=127
> 1536 Off ch=1 n=74 v=64
> 1536 Meta TrkEnd
> TrkEnd
> MTrk
> 0 Meta Lyric "Aaa"
> 0 TimeSig 4/4 18 8
> 0 Meta TrkName "uniqueContext0"
> 0 Tempo 1000000
> 384 Meta Lyric "Bee"
> 768 Meta Lyric "Cee"
> 1152 Meta Lyric "Dee"
> 1152 Meta TrkEnd
> TrkEnd
>
>
> If you want more information, search the mailing list archives.
>
>   /Mats
>
> Quoting Michiel Lange <address@hidden>:
>
>  
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > If I'm correct (which is always the question) one can add lyrics to a
> > midi file so they can be showed during playback. Kind of like karaoke
> > style... (if the player supports it of course)
> >
> > when I write a song with lilypond including lyrics, and generate a
> > midifile ou tof it, however, those lyrics do not appear... is that a
> > special setting you need to add, or does lilypond not support this (yet)?
> >
> > I'm running lilypond 2.2.0 and the song very globally looks like this:
> >
> > << \notes \new staff { a b c d }
> >    \lyricsto \new Lyrics=A \lyrics {a b c d}
> > >>
> > \paper {}
> > \midi {}
> >
> > Maybe this shortens my search for how to get this done...
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Michiel
> >
> >
> >
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