Re: understanding midi files

[David Kastrup]

address@hidden writes:

> David Kastrup:
> ...
>> Uh, this is awkward,
>
> What is awkward?
>
>> but you do know that the LilyPond distribution
>> comes with a program called lilymidi which you can use like
>
> Yes I know.
>
>> lilymidi --pretty somefile.midi
>> 
>> in order to get a readable representation of a Midi file?
>
> I've tried it, but:
>
> $ lilymidi --pretty aeiou.mid 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/local/bin/lilymidi", line 250, in <module>
>     go ()
>   File "/usr/local/bin/lilymidi", line 231, in go
>     midi_data = read_midi (midi_file)
>   File "/usr/local/bin/lilymidi", line 68, in read_midi
>     return midi.parse (open (file).read ())
> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'aeiou.mid'
> $
>
> It's installed from git, make install, perhaps something wrong with
> the install script.

That one looks just like a bad file name.  Sure the file is not named
aeiou.midi instead of aeiou.mid ?

-- 
David Kastrup