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MIDI is the acronym for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. Throughout its twelve-year existence, MIDI has gained acceptance with industry professionals by leaps and bounds. Not only does it allow for faster creation and composition of music, it allows the composer to become the proverbial one-man band.

MIDI was introduced in 1983. It was developed in cooperation between the major music industry electronic instrument manufacturers including Roland, Yamaha, Korg and others. No one ever dreamed the kinds of sounds that could be created and accessed using such a powerful communications protocol.

The MIDI protocol allows electronic devices (usually synthesizers, but also computers, light show controllers, VCR’s, multi-track recorders, etc.) to interact and work in synchronization with other MIDI compatible devices. Using a master controller device such as a keyboard, one can play or trigger sounds from other electronic devices remotely. This eliminates the need for one keyboardist to perform with nine or ten keyboards around him. He can play all the keyboards through one simply by connecting them using MIDI. The other keyboards can be off-stage; he never has to touch them, yet he can play them.

The best analogy for MIDI is to liken it to the linking of two computers via modems. The same way the computers share information via modem, electronic devices share it via MIDI. It does not send the actual musical note, but the information about the note. It can send messages to synthesizers telling it to change sounds, master volume, modulation devices, which note was depressed, and even how long to sustain the note.

MIDI has been continually expanded to include other features for the professional musician. Some of note include MIDI Time Code (allowing synchronization of video and audio), Sample Dump Standard (allowing for the transfer of digital audio files) and MIDI Show Control (allowing control of devices used in theater).

Wav & Midi explained:
In reality they are not the same at all. Wav files are actually recorded sound files. Now media player or midi/wav player combo will sort the differences in the files in the header no matter what the name is. But there is no polyphonic sound in midi files at all. Therefore no human voices.
Midi files are like scores in music. There is absolutely NO recorded sound in them at all. They contain information about which notes to play, when to play them, how loud to play them, etc. They are virtual digital notesheets.
Yes, just like written musical notesheets, except.... notesheets for the computer and not for a human to read. So a musician might take a notesheet of music and without ever hearing the song before, play it with his instrument. The computer is just as dependent on the notesheet to do the same with a midi. Usually the synthesizer program is what translates the note sheet to music. If you use a mixer, you will find that midi will play right along when the wav is turned down. But if you turn the synthesizer down, you have lowered the volume of the midi.
A midi file can be written with the notepad, which is what many do.I myself have composed some midi files using that method. It is impossible to create a wav file that way. A good knowledge of the ancient basic language would aid you in doing this. See, midi files began with the basic language, and sounds were ordered in it. As it became more developed, then chords and voices also changed things until you can have a full orchestra playing or any instrument if you know how to do it.
The only way to convert really a midi file to a wav file is to record it. That works. but converting a wav to a midi is something altogether different. And in spite of the fact you may name it mid, it is not a true midi file and will be played on the wav player you use and not the synthesizer side. It is not a notesheet so to speak.
A midi file also is dependent on the sound card you may have on your individual machine. One may have one sound and another, will be different. So some machines play midi files to sound better than others do. Compare that with a wav file, and they will sound the same on either machine. But it is like a different musician reading and playing the music of a midi notefile.

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To record from cassettes and albums that You would like to burn to CD's before Your old equipment gives out on you.
You may have a sound card and CD burner + dBpoweramp amp + music converter + record plugin + your time =
Tape or Record to hard drive, then hard drive to CD
The records and tapes are not separated by tracks. What one needs to begin with.....
Your regular player whether it be records, tapes, cassettes, radio, 8-track..... must have an auxiliary output (like for a jack to go to earphones, etc.) One needs a jack to plug in to it with a wire that has a jack to plug into the aux input on your sound card. this gets the music on your pute.
Now when it comes in on your pute and you can hear it......most times your player itself (whichever you use to listen to the music) will save the song for you. If it is using only the mixer, then something like scanrecord will record it for you exactly as it sounds on your sound card. First things first. a wav file must be made of it. So ScanRecord will make it for you. It should be in the files. I will check and if it is not I will put it there.
Then you can use one of many programs like dbPoweramp or MusicMatch to convert it and burn it to cd. Or you could just use your program that came with your cd/rw to do it. So, many ways to go here. But first things first. Make sure you can connect and get it to play on your pute.
When you get sounds coming through your pute system and you can hear them over your pute speakers with the plugin connections, then you have the hardest part done.
So, ONE wire with the proper jacks should be all most need. Like I said..... It IS according to what sound card is installed.

If you want music in background to email sent by Yahoo! You will have various problems!

It will not stream from your own computer just by using html. Now if you use an email client like Outlook (which uses mime) It will embed in the email itself using the mime format. Yahoo WILL then forward the email directly to where you send it without messing up the mime. But embedding mime using the Yahoo web/email is impossible.
MIME is a way of encoding email in sections. It is it's own kind of language. Now there are many email sevices that DO read mime but will not encode and send.
Receiving it using Yahoo in MIME embedded I do not know if it works because I have not used web/YahooEmail in so long and it appears that they have changed it since then. So, if you want to stream it in so that when they want to open your email it plays the music, then you must have some place to stream it from. It must be a place of your own as using someone else's bandwidth is a no no without their permission etc.
All who are on a pute on the internet very long will find the need one way or another for either a storage site or a home page site with storage sections. And if you get one you will enjoy it tremendously. There are many many freebies out there to get. Each has different rules etc.