[Ardour-Users] cannot import MIDI files (Ardour 3)

Paul Davis paul at linuxaudiosystems.com
Thu Mar 14 19:35:16 PDT 2013


On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Federico Bruni <fedelogy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Il 15/03/2013 00:19, Paul Davis ha scritto:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Federico Bruni <fedelogy at gmail.com
>> <mailto:fedelogy at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     I'm running Ardour 3 (just compiled from git repository) on Linux.
>>
>>     I've added a MIDI track, right-clicked on it and selected "Add
>>     existing media". Even if the directory contains .midi files, they
>>     are not showed up until I select "all files".
>>
>>
>> ".mid" or ",MID" is the conventional extension for MIDI files. The
>> filter ardour uses looks only for (case-insensitive) matches with that.
>>
>
> Yes, if I rename the file as .mid it shows up.
>
> Could you please add .midi to the filter?
> I'm using MIDI files generated by LilyPond, which uses .midi as default
> file extension (at least on Linux). Renaming each midi (every time) would
> be a pain.
>

committed to the master branch.


>
>>     Then if I select a midi file Ardour complains that:
>>     "One or more of the selected files cannot be used by Ardour"
>>
>>
>> a screenshot of the import dialog when this happens would be a good idea.
>>
>
> I have problem also with the .mid file: it's been imported but I see this
> error in the log window:
> [WARNING]: Track 1 of /tmp/test.mid contained no usable MIDI data
>

send me the MIDI file.
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