opening sheet music in midi file
I receive files of sheet music in midi files by email, I have always downloaded them, selected MuseScore as the program to open them and then they are stored in my Muse Score Scores file.
Recently I upgraded to Windows 10. Musescore works just the same with no problems however, I have just downloaded a new piece of sheet music emailed to me as a midi file (just the same as all the others in the past) but when I select Muse Score to open it I get a message saying MuseScore does not recognise the file ?
Can you help please
thanks
nickwitham@yahoo.co.uk
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In order to help, we would need you to attach the specific MIDI file you are having trouble with.
Note that there is no such things as "sheet music in midi files". A MIDI file is *not* sheet music; it's more liek a piano roll. It is missing tons of important information that would be needed to create real sheet music. When MuseScoee - or amny notation program - opens a MIDI file, the best it can do is give you a very rough approximation of how it might look as sheet music. If you are trying to share sheet music via email, MIDI is not a good format to do this. If the person you are sharing with uses a notation program other than MuseScore, see if you can get them to export in MusicXML format instead, which preserves much more of the information from the original sheet music.
In reply to In order to help, we would by Marc Sabatella
Thanks Marc, as I said all the previous items opened ok before I upgraded to Windows 10 ? I have tried to attach the downloaded file but it is not accepted on this forum site?
I could forward the original email I received with the file as an attachment if you could give me an email address to use?
regards
Nick
In reply to Thanks Marc, as I said all by Nickwitham@yah…
Properly midi-files should be accepted as attachement (maybe the file is corrupted or something is wrong with the extension?). You can also upload the file as zip-file. Or try to rename the file (for instance as "example.mid") and try to upload this file.
In reply to Thanks Marc, as I said all by Nickwitham@yah…
If the site won't accept it either, that suggests it it is not in fact recognized as a MIDI file - the same problem MuseScore is telling you about. In order to be recognized as a MIDI file, the filename must end in the extension ".mid" or ".midi" - perhaps that is the problem? Maybe when you upgraded to Windows 10, your setting for the option that controls whether file extensions are displayed was changed, and that led to you inadvertently giving files bad names?
In reply to If the site won't accept it by Marc Sabatella
Fantastic well done and thanks to Marc and Peter for sorting this out for me, I really think my options may have changed when I upgraded to Windows 10 but thanks guy's everything is back to normal now. great service and very prompt replies.
cheers
Nick