Post APqQADofi51Fcd3vsm by telarium@idlethumbs.social
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(DIR) Post #APqD2eXx91UCnuIqMC by textfiles@mastodon.archive.org
2022-11-21T21:32:35Z
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Seven years ago, a fellow named "MIDI_MAN" compiled 130,000 unique MIDI files by browsing a ton of sites, placing them into directories, and generally assembling years of MIDI music.Now that collection (1gb compressed, 3.5gb uncompressed, 130,000 files for real!) is at the Internet Archive at this URL:https://archive.org/details/midiman_melody_kit_1.0_2015-06
(DIR) Post #APqEYE5BAlutwpSn1k by walkerb@infosec.exchange
2022-11-21T21:37:09Z
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@textfiles before mp3 came along, midi was the format of choice. Back in the day I had some myself.
(DIR) Post #APqFkknDTyGWpHbC5I by chloe_f_irl@kolektiva.social
2022-11-21T21:41:24Z
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@textfiles omg... dream. ty
(DIR) Post #APqGxhjgG9bT40gUEq by volkan@hachyderm.io
2022-11-21T21:44:05Z
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@textfiles @jimbob you forgot this, sir » 👑.
(DIR) Post #APqHw5GjtP4XQRwEvQ by chloe_f_irl@kolektiva.social
2022-11-21T21:45:34Z
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@textfiles also, torrents are so nostalgic for me... that was fun, dl'd already :D :D Now just to spend the rest of my life hunting through these files in FL Studio
(DIR) Post #APqJ4g1VE0cZghTNM8 by james@cuff.social
2022-11-21T21:45:50Z
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@textfiles And… there goes my weekend!This is brilliant. Thank you!
(DIR) Post #APqK06StaTp4CZfWIy by sehugg@infosec.exchange
2022-11-21T21:56:12Z
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@textfiles Very nice! Also, TIL that Brave has a built-in WebTorrent client.
(DIR) Post #APqK085vWqddFuwCmW by sehugg@infosec.exchange
2022-11-21T22:13:24Z
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@textfiles I almost forgot the obligatory Tim and Eric: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puVYtkh-LO4
(DIR) Post #APqLu1p08eZbyHEuHY by AlSweigart@mastodon.social
2022-11-21T21:58:11Z
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@textfiles Your work is really cool, Jason.
(DIR) Post #APqQADofi51Fcd3vsm by telarium@idlethumbs.social
2022-11-21T22:37:54Z
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@textfiles And what would it sound like if you played them all at once?
(DIR) Post #APqRIJQUprzxIBAzZo by toychicken@mastodon.social
2022-11-21T23:00:52Z
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@textfiles my first introduction to the joy of midi was a bootleg midi version of "eye in the sky" that I could use on my Atari ST and was so excited that I could change the instruments played via my Yamaha SY55. I didn't hear a recording of it until many years later (didn't know what it was called!) and it was magic to hear the original.
(DIR) Post #APqSDfb54tNUYlTels by arfy@dragonscave.space
2022-11-21T23:09:11Z
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@textfiles nice! I think I got this collection back in 2015 when I first found out about it on reddit. Nice that its on archive.org though!
(DIR) Post #APqTN0nli0b0swQk76 by melroy@mastodon.melroy.org
2022-11-21T23:15:38Z
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@textfiles Install https://www.fluidsynth.org/ to play the MIDI files. Under GNU/Linux (Debian) use: apt install fluidsynth. This is a command line tool.
(DIR) Post #APqUPWQLD2aPUcEVw8 by flamepanther@retrogaming.social
2022-11-21T23:19:55Z
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@textfilesHoly crap, that's awesome!
(DIR) Post #APqY9i6aPUdSuBi0oK by Gustodon@mas.to
2022-11-21T23:39:48Z
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@textfiles This is like finding a perfect sapphire in your pocket.
(DIR) Post #APqZE1EtJQxlMQDC0O by Jyoti@mas.to
2022-11-22T00:21:05Z
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@textfiles This is amazing!
(DIR) Post #APqeqUCQaRIzxEDnBw by jrm4@mastodon.social
2022-11-22T02:39:27Z
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@textfiles seeding now for .. well as long as I care to :)
(DIR) Post #APqnu7AH4QbzG81FhY by officialflear@ravenation.club
2022-11-22T04:21:14Z
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@textfiles oh my god
(DIR) Post #APqu65CAolEuLpzulM by BigD@mastodon.nz
2022-11-22T05:29:35Z
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@textfiles Thankyou. This is going to be fun in my DAW. I'm a lousey keyboardist and play alot of bad tunes using MIDI so am looking forward to experiencing alot of this. MIDI is a language that every computer should learn 🎹🎼🎶 :)
(DIR) Post #APqvtV9tAy1b1C3dGy by Brett_E_Carlock@mastodon.online
2022-11-22T05:42:56Z
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@textfiles This warms my heart... Way back I had a computer a local library threw out with Windows 95, 16MB RAM, and a whopping 500MB HDD and I wanted to collect music... So MIDI was about all I could do given the space constraints and the fact that I had really bad 28kbps dialup. I still managed to collect nearly 100MB of MIDI files before that drive died.Wish I had a good MIDI card then, and maybe it'll be okay now under Linux with a good software MIDI emulator.Thanks for surfacing this!
(DIR) Post #APqy4uwjpyGI5kTgQq by jessl3d@mastodon.online
2022-11-22T06:16:04Z
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@textfiles I used to spend hours looking for midi music to include in games that I wrote for myself and friends to play. This collection would've been awesome to have back then.
(DIR) Post #APr3AeQKgG3aM7sDke by Lunatic_Moth@mastodon.social
2022-11-22T07:12:46Z
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@textfiles This is so awesome, THANK YOU for posting it! 🎵 🎶 🎹 🎧
(DIR) Post #APr7zdEvF4I5Gk6M2y by RL_Dane@fosstodon.org
2022-11-22T08:06:01Z
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@textfiles Holy crap, 1 GB (compressed) MIDI is a LIFETIME of listening!!!
(DIR) Post #APrDmgygdEzip5ijTs by luigithirty@xantronix.social
2022-11-22T07:47:25Z
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@textfiles This will go great with my Roland Sound Canvas!
(DIR) Post #APrEeyooW57DnCzNPU by msxwiki@mastodon.world
2022-11-22T09:11:19Z
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@textfilesMIDI, General MIDI and MIDI FILES are three different concepts that most people usually confuse for each other. This is a collection of MIDI files, probably using the General MIDI instrument set definition, but MIDI itself is not involved when someone plays one of these files on their computer.A bit confusing, I know...
(DIR) Post #APrO3J0A1kYavVyEaW by celesteh@post.lurk.org
2022-11-22T10:55:24Z
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@textfiles If you want to get totally retro, I've got a #SuperCollider library that can convert MIDI files into physical fisher price music box disks (via #OpenScad a d a 3d printer). Those were those 1970s plastic disks that played things like Camptown Races.Find your favourite, cut it to length and give it to a child with retro toy technology: https://github.com/celesteh/FisherPriceRecords
(DIR) Post #APrkrKUCymyh0BHdQm by istoff@social.vivaldi.net
2022-11-22T15:20:57Z
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@textfiles Cool. Will seed for a bit I did a similar collection for myself 15 years ago.
(DIR) Post #APrmIpaRYY5HEPsT2m by retroprom@oldbytes.space
2022-11-22T15:38:48Z
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@textfiles Gosh, I will have to parse all of them! Thanks for all the great work at the Archive.
(DIR) Post #APrn9VHZmHalbgAW4O by trevorflowers@machines.social
2022-11-22T15:39:53Z
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@textfiles TIL that YouTube Music will play MIDI files.
(DIR) Post #AProfYrg5u9FwCuBO4 by pinkunz@zork.social
2022-11-22T16:05:19Z
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@textfiles I would imagine the copyright status on each of those midi files is going to vary quite a bit, no? Or does converting a copyrighted piece of music into midi form somehow duck copyright provisions?If I make a YouTube video with Brittany Spears' playing in the background, it'll get copyright struck, but if I play a midi version of it, I feel like it would still get struck anyway, no?
(DIR) Post #APrpRznFHHvtM4vXto by RadioAzureus@mastodon.social
2022-11-22T16:08:20Z
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@textfiles Thank you for this valualble post!
(DIR) Post #APsFdUQCLB7oLBHwAa by TinadeToetterbeck@mas.to
2022-11-22T21:00:27Z
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@textfiles greaaaat thank u so much!
(DIR) Post #APsGgv3RsMWflSqYSm by paulrickards@mastodon.social
2022-11-22T21:09:20Z
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@textfiles I can hardly wait to put this on 2,560 floppies and play them in my Roland MT-120S. #RetroComputing #MIDI
(DIR) Post #APsPJgINU1aYutp8Ii by EllieATF@mstdn.ca
2022-11-22T22:50:52Z
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@textfiles thanks for the link. Gonna check it out.I used to midi-fy abc files on linux. I wonder if any of those are lying around somewhere.
(DIR) Post #APsaJGZsCUY0eN0nS4 by cafkafk@pleroma.cafkafk.com
2022-11-23T00:53:52.439735Z
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@textfiles are these files public domain? would seed if yes
(DIR) Post #APsaJH4MN8vyAvH8yG by netdoll@refusal.biz
2022-11-23T01:06:21.122850Z
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@cafkafk @textfiles Probably not, but whatever your country equivalent of 17 U.S.C. 107 is means you're in the clear anyway.
(DIR) Post #APscPlsOwdtnMquL8y by gabrielbauman@newwest.social
2022-11-23T01:21:16Z
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@textfiles what a hero!
(DIR) Post #APsqLeFgkUwPv9jDQu by davidnewman@zirk.us
2022-11-23T03:32:20Z
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@textfiles Thanks for the tip. I wonder what sort of data mining has been done on this.
(DIR) Post #APsvhO7htZhc2YBGXw by Front242@masto.ai
2022-11-23T04:58:00Z
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@textfiles I have to many MIDi files but this is cool!
(DIR) Post #APt2MbG0ZHhiN868nI by officialflear@ravenation.club
2022-11-23T06:11:34Z
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@textfiles Just now actually getting to this, this is a gold mine! I'm going to do an arrangement of classical music for practice with this
(DIR) Post #APvsYLA5ou8vrQAdUm by tusk@woof.group
2022-11-24T15:06:49Z
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@textfiles absolutely bookmarking and coming back to this later
(DIR) Post #APwjMJtxyTZC32mTWC by AlexSantos@mastodon.sdf.org
2022-11-24T21:10:54Z
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@textfiles truly impressive. The archive never ceases to amaze and to all those amazing people who collect all these things, thank you!
(DIR) Post #APxZTaCIyrZOES8vzM by PawelK@noagendasocial.com
2022-11-25T10:50:47Z
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@textfiles When amiga and later PC '.mod' s?
(DIR) Post #APy1H9A0TXfRcTvUvo by vandys@noagendasocial.com
2022-11-25T16:02:16Z
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@textfiles If you want to pull down that MIDI archive, please consider helping out in its distribution and torrent it:https://archive.org/download/midiman_melody_kit_1.0_2015-06/midiman_melody_kit_1.0_2015-06_archive.torrent
(DIR) Post #APyTPwY7WupvpWBjkW by lunasspecto@todon.nl
2022-11-25T13:45:52Z
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@textfiles This gives me an idea. A few times I've played around with softsynth instrument sounds by designing them around an existing MIDI. In the cases where I've included these in a Bandcamp release, I obtained permission from the MIDI arranger (but the compositions themselves were public domain). But probably no one would especially mind if I did a completely non-commercial release of these "illuminated" MIDI for cases where authorship is unclear
(DIR) Post #APyaqdj2KACewjyGno by drewdaniels@mastodon.online
2022-11-25T15:08:21Z
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@textfiles having a good sound font made a big difference when listening. Input devices were way too expensive for me. I also enjoyed mod, s3m, tracker and similar files that embedded the samples in the file. The Hornet Archive was a great source of music.
(DIR) Post #AQAUbCjg7Ymd4G2yzQ by mempko@fosstodon.org
2022-12-01T16:16:37Z
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@textfiles This is a gold mine for ML music generation!
(DIR) Post #AQaO2zzNSWMG4bee7U by stig@toot.wales
2022-12-14T04:02:08Z
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@textfiles reminds me of Vikram’s MIDI-Fest
(DIR) Post #AQam9WlktS0SNQvexU by dolari@driveinsaturday.org
2022-12-14T07:44:55Z
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@textfiles - Now do MOD/S3M Music!
(DIR) Post #AQatfQ7RqxJuhKELVw by Nika2022@mas.to
2022-12-14T10:00:16Z
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@textfiles yeah he is a legend for us #publicdomain and #copyleft types
(DIR) Post #AQfbnlIYAPLvJd3CwC by humbird0@mstdn.party
2022-12-16T16:23:06Z
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@textfiles You know, somebody shared a YouTube video showing off the amazing music from an old PC game called The Amazing Machine, and I had the urge to look for a Midi of the song. I tend to assume most old PC games store their music this way.But I was surprised when I couldn't find it. The internet today isn't flooded with Midi's like it was 15 years ago. That kind of surprised me.Some small old sites still exist, but search engines often don't reveal them.http://midi-archive.com/
(DIR) Post #AQfbnnMWUbidiWvPPM by humbird0@mstdn.party
2022-12-16T16:29:55Z
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@textfiles And no, I wasn't looking for "Ragtime Theme.mid"That's the only MIDI file I can find now, from The Incredible Machine.