That was so easy, let's embed links, even timed lyrics, images... yay!
Dear Torsten,
You are so kind and helpful! :clap: :angel:
Hi Teo,
So it is very easy to save lyrics and every other information with a midifile. The language shown on the file is german but I think it will be no problem for you to see what I mean. Hope this helps you.
Well,
this helps me! Since you are really coming up with solutions, more than anyone else - and I have posted this need in about 8 discussion forums - I will go into more detail here:
1) I am getting my Publishing Company going, and sharing of songs is something I do a lot of on-line, so I want to make every effort that AUTHOR, COPY-RIGHTS, PERFORMED DATE and such information is included in a given file. This is so that in some optimal future of my music publishing in general, I can help artists have their information included in their music files that I give out. Make sense?
2) I have done
A LOT of development of self-running types of web pages. Using the META tag extensively, along with databases of the lengths of songs (and videos) I create web pages that play one song after the other, and have been designing things like this for.. well, a decade in HTML format, but I have done professional multimedia development for animation and corporate training videos, in-house education projects, for decades. Claris, Oracle, TV soundtracks, many various applications like this totally interest me.
This second reason that I just told you, well, when I see how some programs I believe will display LYRICS to go along with a song, while it is playing, this fits exactly what I wish - in the more creative future of what I like to do!
Let me back up and explain how I wish my MIDI files to be useful, and why specific tags that can stay in specific MIDI tracks is my goal: My son mentioned to me yesterday that when he "composes," he listens to many MIDI files, finds pieces he likes, layers them together, and whala, a song! I am not necesarilly ASKING for my chops/tracks to be stolen, but in my own case I have musical "words of wisdom" that I wish to share - IN THE LONG RUN:
Clave patterns, like drum machine patterns, I think are a staple for any/every song. Certain rhythem guitar patterns (James Brown style) are good building blocks, and forms like "12 bar blues" might as well fit into what I am telling you about, I have "Songo" a really hip afro-caribbean rhythem on traps in a few of my MIDI files. So what I have, is a lot of building blocks, MIDI phrases that can - and I feel should - be used by compositionally hungry people.
Here is my question for this second reason to put tags: Can lyrics be set to display at certain points in a song - in Cubase - in DigiDesign software - in Quicktime? Can tags be inserted into THE SPECIFIC TRACK, so that as someone mixes my MIDI file into their own composition, can my track still have "Chopin inspired impromptu performed by Teo July of 2006?" I think the reason for this last ability to TAG is obvious!
I have been "Desktop Publishing" since before the laser printer, have met Paul Brainerd of PageMaker, and may get into Finale or whatever score software is the standard or most professional. But... I would like to see a OUTPUT OPTION that makes a ".swf" multimedia file, so that the music plays, and you can maybe see the notes go across staffs! Why not with lyrics? Why not with (cover) art synced to points in the song? Maybe this is more like a KARIOKE type of technology, but hey, Japan is not to be overlooked hum? Maybe I am getting beyond myself, or what we are discussing. But maybe not!
Why can't we put tags into specific midi tracks, at specific times IN THE TRACK, so that lyrics can show up in WindowsMediaSlayer, QuerkyTimePlayer, B4RealPlayer or whatever, and the embedded images/links can display at certain times in the song?!?
1=accountability, as long as I can put info in the COPYRIGHT tag, I'm fine. 256 characters gives me the option to put many cross indexable keys.
2=embedding information into separate MIDI tracks so that even when edited/compiled with other tracks the tag will still be in the track - lyrics should obviously stay with the lyric track (choruses with chorus track etc..), perhaps images can be given a EVENT TIME so that they show THEN. For a complete answer to this point I will have to investigate what software looks like it will survive, and if it can import and export midi files and each track's tags (and maybe url links and maybe graphic files) stay intact through the export/import/export etc...
That should give you plenty "to chew on" for a while, but I only share this because you have truly tried to give me answers, and you yourself said "Easy, isn't it?"
http://www.givnology.com/WhatYouSync0.mid has some tags, but now QuickTime won't read it!!! Waaaaahhh!!