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Re: Midi MIME Type

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hans de Wolf)
Mon Apr 3 03:23:24 1995

Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 03:16:53 +0500
Errors-To: procmaster@www19.w3.org
Reply-To: hdewolf@fss.fokker.nl
From: hdewolf@fss.fokker.nl (Hans de Wolf)
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www10.w3.org>

>> Is there a MIME Content-Type for files following the General MIDI standard?
>> It seems to me there ought to be.  Any comments?

>c) it's only useful if there are 'helper apps' for most platforms that
>actually take such a file and do something interesting with it. I've
>not been able to find any simple 'MIDI-play' utilities that are
>generic enough to work for the wide variety of MIDI gear. Have you?

I am not sure about other platforms, but the Mac contains Midi support
through QuickTime 2.0 - no external Midi equipment needed. I think that I
have read somewhere that QuickTime 2.0 will also become available for
Windows soon.

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