Author Topic: Mp3 to midi?  (Read 2135 times)

Offline TheOtherBelmont

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Mp3 to midi?
« on: Monday, February 12, 2007, 12:13:27 AM »
Maybe someone can help me with this, I want to convert some mp3s to midis.  I remember doing it with Winamp but that was a long time ago and I can't seem to remember how, I looked around on Google and the Winamp site but I'm not finding any useful info, or maybe I'm just not looking hard enough.  All of the programs I have found through Google that do it are trial versions and usually won't let you save the file just listen to it.

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Re: Mp3 to midi?
« Reply #1 on: Monday, February 12, 2007, 12:47:54 AM »
It's possible, but the MIDI will be terrible and not resemble the mp3 song very much.  It's important to note that MIDI is not really a music file -- it does not have an audio signal -- it's just digital data that tells the speaker what to play. 

As a result, there are a few programs that will transfer mp3 to MIDI, but it will not be good or anything.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that you want to do this because you're using it to give your phone some ringtones?

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Re: Mp3 to midi?
« Reply #2 on: Monday, February 12, 2007, 12:52:29 AM »
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that you want to do this because you're using it to give your phone some ringtones?

Yeah, I've actually had luck with the trial programs I tried, and the midis sounded pretty good(the mp3s I got were very simple ones, almost sounded like midis), but I couldn't save them with the programs just being in trial mode and all.  Also yes, this is for my phone.