Community Wishlist Survey 2019/Multimedia and Commons/Transcode MIDI file archive

Transcode MIDI file archive

  • Problem: While Wikimedia has a pretty nice archive of MIDI files, they are not playable in modern browsers. Pages will have them available, but they need to be downloaded, and then played on a separate player. Said player is not even necessarily available in the user's operating system, and third party players tend to be a bit tricky to set up, requiring addtional files (soundfonts) and such.
  • Who would benefit: People who want to listen to our MIDI archive. People visiting several Music-related pages. People who wish to upload small files that illustrate a musical concept.
  • Proposed solution: Automatically convert the MIDI to Ogg Vorbis, like with other audio files. These are playable on modern browsers.
  • More comments: We already have most of the necessary software. There is a SCORE tag extension that allows for Lilypond markup, and takes the rendered MIDI and converts it to OGG. And we have the workflow already setup for other conversions. The only optional new item that might be useful is an additional soundfont: the one from MuseScore might fill in gaps in the existing FluidSynth ones and is hiqg quality.
  • Phabricator tickets: phab:T135597
  • Proposer: Trlkly (talk) 07:19, 11 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

  • Trlkly, could you please clarify if you mean automatically adding a Synthlisten template to each MIDI file page, making a downloadable Ogg Vorbis version available for each MIDI file, or replacing the MIDI files with Ogg Vorbis files, thus removing access to the MIDI files as MIDIs?

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