Re: MIDI track names

[David Kastrup]

Henning Hraban Ramm <address@hidden> writes:

> Am 2015-08-03 um 20:28 schrieb David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
>
>>> The title of my songs, as shown e.g. QuickTime player, is always
>>> „control track“, even if I name everything in my source - is there a
>>> way to fix this? I.e. what else should I name?
>> 
>> From lily/control-track-performer.cc:
>> 
>> void
>> Control_track_performer::initialize ()
>> {
>>  control_track_ = new Audio_staff;
>>  announce_element (Audio_element_info (control_track_, 0));
>> 
>>  string id_string = String_convert::pad_to
>> (gnu_lilypond_version_string (), 30);
>> 
>>  add_text (Audio_text::TRACK_NAME, "control track");
>>  add_text (Audio_text::TEXT, "creator: ");
>>  add_text (Audio_text::TEXT, id_string);
>> }
>> 
>> That looks like you are out of luck here.  No idea what happens when the
>> Control_track_performer gets removed but I doubt it's useful.
>
> Thank you for looking into that!
>
> I guess since it’s C code, one cannot simply override a few things
> (like the „add_text“ lines) from a score source?

Correct.

> Has the control track performer access to the metadata from \header{}?
> In that case, I suggest to default the name to header’s „title“
> setting.  What do you think?

Could work.  Haven't looked into MIDI a lot though.

-- 
David Kastrup