Hacking Moonshell's being crap on me with non-MP3 music

[Searinox]

Folder sorting is an answer huh? Okay guys I'll keep that in mind and try it. Thanks.

 

[DanTheManMS]

Well this sometimes happens to me actually. When I was watching FF - VII Advent Children on my DS using moonshl on the SuperCard DS One v3, it would buffer a lot. Like the sound would go but the video it self would freeze for like a second or few.

That has nothing to do with his problem. His problem is like this: you've got "bob.mp3" and "charlie.midi" and you start playing bob.mp3 then hit R to advance to the next track. Moonshell sees that charlie.midi is a valid media file and tries to advance to it, but somewhere in the middle it gets screwed up since it's a different file type and freezes entirely.

 

[Searinox]

Dan has to be right since playing midi, and playing mp3 individually no problems of any sort occur, but only when switching between types. My belief is that moonshell doesn't "clean up" variables when switching to a new file type. It's actually a very trivial bug, and a very annoying one at it too. I'm surprised it hasn't been addressed in as long as moonshell has been around for. Are people who play ogg and mid so few that nobody bothered?

 

[IOwnAndPwnU]

I just made a folder with all my Music called " Music " xD

Well this sometimes happens to me actually. When I was watching FF - VII Advent Children on my DS using moonshl on the SuperCard DS One v3, it would buffer a lot. Like the sound would go but the video it self would freeze for like a second or few.

Ahaha, I only have 2 folders in my Media. Lolz
Music and Videos
I don't have OGG, only MP3.

 

[Searinox]

My folder structure is exactly the same. Media with Music and Video. *kicks moonshell in the nuts*

 

[IOwnAndPwnU]

But you use OGG and MP3. I only use MP3. Just convert all your OGG songs to MP3.

 

[Searinox]

What about the midis?

 

[DanTheManMS]

You could convert the MIDI files to mp3 with certain conversion programs, but then you'd lose the entire purpose of keeping them as MIDI files (small filesize). The conversion would most likely take just as much time as it takes to play the MIDI back, as MIDI files are more like sheet music than actual recordings, so the program has to first play it back on the spot and simply record whatever it produces.

 

[Searinox]

I know, and because of this I asked "what about midi". Not all converters have a built-in synthethizer. And yes it loses the whole purpose of midi to make a 200KB song into a 4MB mp3. And anyway why do I have to do this just to play music properly in moonshell?

 

[DanTheManMS]

You're going to have to put them in a separate folder. That's the only suggestion I can come up with.

 

[IOwnAndPwnU]

I didn't know MIDI was a type of audio file in low filesize. But I bet it loses quality and when you shrink it down.

 

[ENDscape]

Isnt MIDI a music that doesnt have vocals?

 

[Xeijin]

Isnt MIDI a music that doesnt have vocals?

A MIDI file is basically a set of instructions that tells the computer (or other device, you can get MIDI keyboards for instance) how to play a certain tune with the instruments it has built in. A bit unscientific but there you go.

That means it's not a "proper" sound file as nothing is actually recorded. Hence no Vocals.

 

[Searinox]

And makes it hard to convert...

 

[IOwnAndPwnU]

Is the file extension .smf?

If it is, can you tell me where I can convert a MP3 to a .smf so I can plug my USB drive into my piano.

 

[Splych]

Then convert your MP3s to MIDIs. Or as most people are doing, put them all in seperate folders.

I would just keep it in seperate folders. It saves you storage capacity in your SD Card.

 

[DanTheManMS]

Then convert your MP3s to MIDIs.

That's... not possible, at least not in the way you're thinking. To go again with the music reference, that's like trying to convert a recording of an orchestra back into the sheet music with a software program. This analogy is very accurate, as again, MIDI files are almost exactly sheet music, just in their own format.

If you have a single instrument playing and no vocals you can sometimes get an "mp3 to midi" converter to work, but 99% of the time they'll produce something completely unintelligible.

 

[Searinox]

I tried some MP3 to MIDI software before, it can only convert into one instrument, it can't pick the instrumental counterparts from a song. That would be like... "reverse engineering" music huh? XD