RE: Midi2ly work for Windows?

[Austin W]

So I got it to work after realizing that midi2ly.py is just a big text file. You have to type python before midi2ly to load midi2ly in python. Is this in a help file somewhere? So it's:

c:\Program Files\Lilypond\usr\bin\python midi2ly.py type1midi.mid

And if you have a midi editing program then you should be able to quantize everything to 100% note duration before converting it thus making a much better looking ly file without fraction lengths.

-Austin W



> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:39:44 +0100
> From: address@hidden
> To: address@hidden
> CC: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Midi2ly work for Windows?
>
> Quoting Patrick McCarty <address@hidden>:
>
> > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Austin Wiegand
> > <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> Am I just not entering it right or does it not work for Windows? I
> >> open the dos
> >> prompt and type "...\midi2ly pi-type1.mid" and get the error:
> >> "'midi2ly' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable
> >> program or batch file."
> >> Even when I just try running the program without a midi after it
> >> Windows doesn't
> >> know what it is.
>
> First of all, the PATH setting that was mentioned in a previous email
> should automatically be done by the LilyPond installation program, but
> you may have to log out and then log in again after the installation
> for it to work.
>
> Secondly, you should just specify the command name, not any full path.
> For example, if you just type the command
> midi2ly
> you should get a printout like:
> Usage: midi2ly [OPTION]... FILE
>
> Convert MIDI to LilyPond input.
> ....
>
>
> >
> > Last time I tried, it did not work. See
> >
> > http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=834
>
> I just tried it right now with LilyPond version 2.13.8 and midi2ly
> certainly works on a small MIDI file that previously was generated by
> LilyPond, so the above mentioned problem does not happen for all MIDI
> files, so if you are lucky it will work with your MIDI file. However,
> don't expect too much from midi2ly since it has several limitations.
> Especially, if often results in weird note durations, since it
> interprets the MIDI file too literally.
>
> /Mats
>

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