Easiest elegant way to convert a MIDI file to MP3?

[honeybear]

Hi

Please find some mid for example. I tried with sox and convert and it did not work.

http://www.gmajormusictheory.org/Fre...s/0AuraLee.mid

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Onnline, one can with :
http://www.hamienet.com/midi2mp3

Come on, sox could ... ?

[westie457]

Your best bet is probably to try here

[honeybear]

Your best bet is probably to try here

Thanks. I used this solution. I actually wanted to batch to convert lot of old game file I had in my old game dedicated to windows 95 cdrom ...

In 2011, it is funny that Linux is not capable to convert easily using a sox or kind of emulator of sound card.

[westie457]

The link I posted was found in this thread

There probably is no easy way to do what you want. However it does suggest a way.

[ron999]

I actually wanted to batch to convert lot of old game file I had in my old game dedicated to windows 95 cdrom ...

Hi
Use timidity

sudo apt-get install timidity

To play the file:-

timidity 0AuraLee.mid

For mp3 pipe it to FFmpeg or LAME.
Like this:-

timidity 0AuraLee.mid -Ow -o - | ffmpeg -i - -acodec libmp3lame -ab 64k 0AuraLee1.mp3

Or this:-

timidity 0AuraLee.mid -Ow -o - | lame - -b 64 0AuraLee2.mp3

Then write a script for the batch.

[honeybear]

Hi
Use timidity

sudo apt-get install timidity

To play the file:-

timidity 0AuraLee.mid

For mp3 pipe it to FFmpeg or LAME.
Like this:-

timidity 0AuraLee.mid -Ow -o - | ffmpeg -i - -acodec libmp3lame -ab 64k 0AuraLee1.mp3

Or this:-

timidity 0AuraLee.mid -Ow -o - | lame - -b 64 0AuraLee2.mp3

Then write a script for the batch.

thank you very much ! btw is there something else than timidity?

Gorgeous amazing replay thx!!!!!

apt-get install timidity
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
timidity-daemon
Suggested packages:
pmidi fluid-soundfont-gm fluid-soundfont-gs
The following NEW packages will be installed:
timidity timidity-daemon
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[andrew.46]

btw is there something else than timidity?

I suspect that timidity is the best option but vlc can convert from midi to mp3 if it has been compiled against fluidsynth. My own copy has been:

andrew@skamandros~$ cvlc --list | grep 'fluidsynth'
VLC media player 1.2.0-git Twoflower (revision 6c101d6)
  fluidsynth             FluidSynth MIDI synthetizer

and your midi file converts nicely . Details here:

MIDI with VLC media player
http://www.remlab.net/op/vlc-midi.shtml

Edit: The commandline to convert your file could be:

cvlc -vvv --sout "#transcode{acodec=mp3,ab=128,channels=2,samplerate=44100}:std{access=file,mux=raw,dst=0AuraLee.mp3}" 0AuraLee.mid