.mid to .mp3 converter

Impersonator

I'm sorry if this issue has been adressed but does anyone know how to convert .mid files to .mp3?

It's driving me nuts! I've installed almost half a dozen of converters and all of them either say the file is corrupted, what, or I can't even add the file to conversion!

Please, it's making me insane, if someone knows something concerning .mid to .mp3 conversion please do tell :?

projectmayhem

dbpowerawp maybe?

Grygonos

easiest thing to do is convert MIDI to WAV and then use LAME to encode to MP3.

CmdPrompt

WinAmp can convert anything it can play:
1. Ctrl-P to open Preferences
2. Choose Output under plug-ins
3. Configure Nullsoft Disk Writer to whatever output you want it to be
4. Play the file

Impersonator

Not .midi, .mid

FreddyD

A midi file is basically just a set of instructions telling the sound hardware what notes to play. The simplest way to convert it is to record the output from your midi player of choice.

Agentflit

.midi and.mid are both midi files, no difference.

Also, since midi files are just instructions for which notes to play and not any actual audio information, they can end up sounding completely different depending on what you use.

Winamp should work fine.

Impersonator

They're MusicDJ Sony Ericsson's files but not even Winamp can read them, I don't understand why since they're midi files

Stover

iTunes can also convert anything it can play.

Edit: where did you get this file from?

Impersonator

Impersonator wrote: »

They're MusicDJ Sony Ericsson's files but not even Winamp can read them, I don't understand why since they're midi files

Has anyone successfully played these type of files with any given media player?

Pheezer

Uh what?

What are MusicDJ Sony Ericsson files? Did those come from a CD you bought?

You probably can't convert them because they're DRMed, or maybe just because all of the .mid to .mp3 software you have is for MIDI FILES and isn't capable of reading the file format this thing has.

Man, 3 letter file extensions sure were a great idea.

Impersonator

MusicDJ is an application for most SE's mobiles, SE as in Sony Ericsson, it saves the files as .mid but when you try playing them in a normal media player they simply don't work and converting them doesn't work either, I've only succeeded on converting them with PSM player but as I've hoped the sound turned out wildly different from when played from the mobile

Impersonator

Correction - With Quicktime player it works like a charm, funny thing eh?

sonictk

OK.

Get Audacity, it's a free open-source audio application.

Then get your recording device set to line-in from your sound card via the sound control panel.

Hit the record button in Audacity, and start playing your song in Quicktime.

When it's done save the new waveform as a MP3.

MidVicious

sonictk wrote: »

Get Audacity, it's a free open-source audio application.

GrimReaper

Winamp as mentioned is the quickest and easiest way to do this. So much so that I can give you an example:

Winamp way 1:

Download winamp and install winamp.

1. Start winamp and Select Options, then Preferences.

2. Under Plug-ins select Output and then select Nullsoft MP3 Output Plug-in vx.x (x86)



3. Select configure, set your output directory and the bitrate. (they're all pretty low bitrates and sample rates if you're using XP and the default windows MP3 codec)

4. Close the window then press play, you won't hear anything but it will output the file as an MP3 to your selected output directory.


Winamp way 2:

Download winamp and out-lame.

1. Start winamp and Select Options, then Preferences.

2. Under Plug-ins select Output and then select Lame MP3 Writer plug-in v1.6.4 [out-lame.dll]



3. Select configure, set your output directory and the bitrate.

4. Close the window then press play, you won't hear anything but it will output the file as an MP3 to your selected output directory.

If you have any problems with the second way give me a shout, the likeliest issue may be finding the lame_enc.dll.

UncleSporky

Of course possibly the easiest way is to plug your audio out into your microphone port, play a midi file and hit "record" in any sound recording program.

Frem

I use the command line program Timidity in Linux. There's also apparently a Windows "port" that works with cygwin.

The great thing about it is that the music is rendered with software rather than your sound card, so it usually sounds better than it would if you just played it normally. Unless you've got a really great sound card, of course.

Edit: Um, yeah. Strange DRMed format, not MIDI. I need to read threads before posting.