Midi Files & Burning

[Rl'Halsinor]

Please excuse the noobness of my questions but this is all new to me. My son loves the songs from the Zelda Games. So he recently downloaded a number of them into various playlists onto Windows Media Player 10 where he has them saved (is this legal??; I certainly don't want to do anything illegally) but we can't seem to burn them. We have syncroynized but for some reason we can't burn these midi lists onto Audio CDs. But either a) the CD is suddenly not detected or b) the program refuses to burn.

I have two DVD burners and they both work fine. What are we doing wrong?

 

[MarauderX]

Not sure what you are doing wrong, but you may want to check out some different burning software. I would guess that you have to convert the midi files into MP3s or WAV files in advance of burning them. ZDnet.com can help you out with both - just search for some free software and try a few until it works.

 

[Rl'Halsinor]

Not sure what you are doing wrong, but you may want to check out some different burning software. I would guess that you have to convert the midi files into MP3s or WAV files in advance of burning them. ZDnet.com can help you out with both - just search for some free software and try a few until it works.

Thanks for the reply. You are correct. I have to convert the MIDIs to WAV files and it does take software to do so. I didn't know this.

 

[LightPhoenix]

As to the legality of it, I wouldn't worry about it. I can't think of a single case where someone got upset about video game MIDIs, especially for personal use. It's not like your son will be starting a cottage industry of selling video game OSTs.

I believe, like all other VG-derived stuff, it would fall under the category of derivitive works, which is rarely enforced by the publishers for console games, and especially not older ones.

 

[Redrobes]

I'm not a rip and burn man so i'm not in my comfort zone here but can you actually burn midi files as audio files on a CD ? I didnt think that you could. Midi files are lists of instructions on how to play music. To keep it simple, the sound card interprets them and mixes up samples built into the card to make the audio so that it will sound different depending on which sound card you play it on.

I would imagine that you would have to use some kind of program to play them out from the sound card and into an audio file like a WAV or MP3 before you could burn them as audio files on a CD. You could burn the files as data files but I wouldn't have expected any player other than a PC (or computer subsystem such as; set top box, multi format DVD player etc) to play them back afterwards.

 

[Rl'Halsinor]

See my answer to MaraderX's reply. After I posted my original inquiry I learned later that I have to convert from Midid to WAV before burning. I am looking for a software that will allow conversion from Midi's stored on playlists in Windeows Media Player to WAV and then be able to burn them to a CD.

 

[Redrobes]

See my answer to MaraderX's reply. After I posted my original inquiry I learned later that I have to convert from Midid to WAV before burning. I am looking for a software that will allow conversion from Midi's stored on playlists in Windeows Media Player to WAV and then be able to burn them to a CD.

Gah ! Sorry, should have read it a bit more thoroughly. There is probably some software about to convert but if you have 2 PCs you can capture the output from the sound card in one and use the aux in to record it on the other... Just need a 3.5mm stereo jack cable.

 

[Mycanid]

ah HA! The answer, Rl'Halsinor, is obvious. You must convert the files to Apple lossless format and then purchase an 80gb iPod to listen to them on!

Sorry, sorry. Just giving you a hard time.

 

[Rl'Halsinor]

ah HA! The answer, Rl'Halsinor, is obvious. You must convert the files to Apple lossless format and then purchase an 80gb iPod to listen to them on!

Sorry, sorry. Just giving you a hard time.

Ah! Curse you Mycanid!!! I refuse to follow the masses into the Cult of iPod Madness. In fact, iPod was originally part of the Lovecraft cosmos as something so hideous that the rest of the Elder Gods rebelled.

 

[Mycanid]

Ahhh ... the unknown secrets of Cthulu's domination techniques begin to come to light....