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how to retrieve summary information of a midi file?

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Started by mickey March 27, 2005 06:17 AM

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mickey

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March 27, 2005 06:17 AM

i'd like to know how i can get the summary information on a midi file when you go to it's properties. ie, right click->properties->summary tab. i tried to open the file on a hex editor but wasn't able to see those information. thanks.

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March 27, 2005 09:35 AM

well do you want to collect this information through code? if yes what language are you coding in? i guess you could give a little bit more information about your problem :)

mickey

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March 27, 2005 10:26 PM

yeah through code. i'm using c++ plus wxwindows.

i can use a 3rd party library, win32, or directx. or just plain raw file i/o. just tell me which part i can decode/retrieve the information.

thanks.

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mickey

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March 30, 2005 10:00 PM

anybody can help me here please?

try checking the properties of a midi file and going thru the summary tab.

you can see various information there that you can change.

i'd like to retrieve this information in my code.

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Plasmadog

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March 30, 2005 10:38 PM

I don't know about midi files in particular, but Windows normally stores that kind of summary info in an alternate stream. Google for "ntfs" and "ads" (that's Alternative Data Streams) for more info about this little known feature of Windows.
The Win32 API can provide access to streams.

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Zahlman

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March 31, 2005 12:58 AM

Quote:Original post by mickey
i'd like to know how i can get the summary information on a midi file when you go to it's properties. ie, right click->properties->summary tab.

i tried to open the file on a hex editor but wasn't able to see those information.

thanks.

It's there, it just isn't necessarily labelled as nicely as you might hope.

Try looking up the file format documentation here.

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