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But I have a client that needs to make available for listening and downloading
a song made for her business sound system.
I believe it comes in MP3 format.
It seems easy to store and deliver a MIDI format
What would you do?
Thanks
Flah is indeed a route but we do not use it and do not have it.
What could be the other solution to play it and d-load it?
(I could find some friend writing the movie for me but I rather keep it in house)
A plain MP3 file could simply be linked to for download and then let the user's PC's default software handle the playing. If it has to be played online you could look at Quicktime or Windows Media Player as well.
MIDI is so out of date!
MIDI certainly isn't out of date. It's used as part of the process to create probably at least half of the music that is made today.
MIDI is essentially a format for putting musical notation into a computer-readable file. Instead of notes on a staff, it uses bits in a file.
MP3 is a format for storing digitized sounds.
MIDI stores notes. MP3 stores sounds.
MIDI just isn't an appropriate means to distribute music to consumers today - though it has been used in that way in the past, for various historical reasons - for example, the lack of broad-band network connections. In the days of dial-up (and no Internet) it wasn't practical to download digitized audio files.
To add to the confusion, some phones today accept MP3 files with .mid file extensions. (The software in the phone looks at the data in the file, rather than the extension, to determine what to do with it.) This is historical as well.
The first phones that supported "ring tones" used MIDI files and a synthesizer - again because of the much smaller file size of MIDI files. When they added the ability to use MP3s, for some reason they just kept the same file naming convention - perhaps they thought .mp3 would confuse consumers, though of course it had the opposite effect from what was intended.
