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From: "Welter, Ted "
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 96 16:36:00 PDT
Subject: RE: Music clips

cryforhelp writes:

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Hugh--

I didn't understand the difficulties suggested in your post about
exchanging music clips. Obviously .wav and .mid binaries can be posted
as Attachments in E-mail. Netscape actually seems to do this well. Is
the problem that these Are then stripped away when posting to a mailing
list such as harp-L?

I did try recording 27 seconds of playing as a .wav file; the size of it
was distressing, >1.2Mb. Is this gross file size the problem? Is there
a way to convert .wav to .mid, which seems like a much more compact
format (don't know much about this technology as you can tell).

--cryforhelp--

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A .wav file is a digital representation of analog data (i.e., just
like a cd). MIDI just represents events related to the playing
of a midi controller (usually, a piano-like keyboard). So, although
there are some programs around (such as autoscore) that convert
wav files to midi files, they are rather crude, and can only do a
a single track melody. Autoscore can barely process a single
harmonica riff (especially those expressive bends).

Realaudio format is supposed to be a reasonable digital format
for analog sound data, although I've never played with it. Anyone
else every used RealAudio to record harp?

I know I don't want a 2-meg wav file in my mailbox, and I think
Hugh would probably have fits about it too. AOL users will
certainly have such long messages truncated. An ftp or web
site would be a much better mechanism for archiving/distributing
binary files (mail is for plain ascii text), IMHO.

Later,

Ted Welter
ted.welt~pertus.com