[HN Gopher] Scanned piano rolls database
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       Scanned piano rolls database
        
       Author : bookofjoe
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2025-07-12 22:27 UTC (4 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.pianorollmusic.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.pianorollmusic.org)
        
       | irrational wrote:
       | It's dead Jim.
       | 
       | I assume we hugged it to death.
        
         | ncr100 wrote:
         | It's buckling. Keep trying if you're interested in it.
         | 
         | Or visit
         | https://web.archive.org/web/20250716215135/http://www.pianor...
         | to see SOME of the files. Sadly not the MIDI files ... which
         | IMO are the meat of value of this HN post.
        
       | JKCalhoun wrote:
       | Super cool. Clicked on a title with the MIDI indicator and a MIDI
       | file (.mid) downloaded. Came up in Garage Band and sounded nice.
        
         | ncr100 wrote:
         | Awesome.
         | 
         | Did the same for Laugh Clown, Laugh - set the tempo to 110 bpm:
         | 
         | http://www.pianorollmusic.org/html/mjose/midifiles/NonPDfile...
        
       | bluGill wrote:
       | If you find a duplicate it often isn't. They often cut a bunch of
       | rolls and then threw the master. If the roll proved popular they
       | made a new master which would be slightly difierent but have the
       | same catalog number. Tracing these 'editions' is often part of
       | the fun.
        
       | masfuerte wrote:
       | If you want to play these in VLC you need a SoundFont (.sf2)
       | file. There's a good list of SoundFont files here [1]. This VLC
       | wiki page [2] explains how to configure VLC to use the SoundFont.
       | 
       | [1]: https://github.com/FluidSynth/fluidsynth/wiki/SoundFont
       | 
       | [2]: https://wiki.videolan.org/Midi/
       | 
       | (I'm posting this because the vlc wiki is stale and sent me down
       | a pointless rabbit hole on fluidsynth's old sourceforge site. I'd
       | rather update the wiki. It tells me I need to create an account.
       | When I try it tells me I don't have permission.)
        
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