Re: MIDI track names

[David Kastrup]

Henning Hraban Ramm <address@hidden> writes:

> Am 2015-08-04 um 16:03 schrieb David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
>
>> Heikki Tauriainen <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>>>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> Using properties from the \header block (which sounds in principle
>>> like a nice idea) is probably made more complicated by the fact that
>>> the title metadata in a \header block can be arbitrary LilyPond
>>> markup, and not necessarily a plain string that could be passed
>>> through directly to the MIDI output file (and still get "acceptable"
>>> output).
>> 
>> Markup stripping should be a solved problem since we prepare PDF
>> metadata in the same manner.
>
> Then pretty please implement it!
> A different possibility to set the MIDI title, as Heikki suggested,
> would also be ok.
> I found no tool (in MacPorts, that is) that can make such fixes to MIDI files.
> Do you still accept donations?

Too few, namely all of them.  But it sounds like you are not talking
about a donation as much as for recompensation for a feature.  As I
said, the MIDI code is not really one of my strong suits.  I was only
pointing out that most of the pieces should, in theory, be already
there.

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David Kastrup