MIDs from BESTMID2.ZIP  -- reworked and put into BESTFIX2.ZIP
(by jimb -- come on by the #gus channel on IRC)

Notes on the fixes made in the .ZIP

Many fixes such as chans=1 may only affect Windows players.

PLAYMIDI will use default (piano) wherever 'no patches' 
 fix was made -- sometimes it even sounds OK such as with
 CONCERTO.MID, but the actual instruments are not being used
 in these cases (except where piano happens to be the right patch)
 Any of these 'no patches' channels will be silent under
 Windows players unless you manually load a patch.

All fixes for 'chans=1' correct a more subtle problem since the
 MID might sound OK without the fix, but you may not get the full range
 of notes, instruments and effects that were intended.
 Depends somewhat on how many common simultaneous notes
 might play between channels and if any dissimilar instruments
 were assigned (one would block out the others), plus any 
 conflicting/cancelling channel controller changes that exist.
 All in all, 'chans=1' is a 'bad thing'.

MIDs with no patches assigned are not 'wrong' -- they
 were probably originally made to drive keyboards or other
 MIDI devices that had patches assigned manually.  

Once in a while, an author will dedicate one track to assign all the
 patch changes to the other channels.  In these cases it may look like
 many channels have no patches assigned but they really do -- the commands
 are just contained in a single track.  I did not see any of these types of
 sequences in this batch, but if you start hacking MIDs, check for this
 before you start fixing what appear to be missing patches.

					Problems fixed in .MID file
                                        vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
12THRAG2 MID     12200 05-16-94   8:27p chans=1/no patches
ARABESQ2 MID      2668 05-16-94   8:35p chans=1/no patch on 2
BACKLIF2 MID     12901 05-16-94   8:44p chans=1
DORSEYB2 MID     48155 05-16-94   8:56p port=2 (plays silent in Win)
EROICA2  MID     17911 05-16-94   9:03p many patches not assigned
GMGOOD2  MID      6196 05-16-94   9:11p chans=1/no patch on 2
GMMAPLE2 MID     20555 05-16-94   9:12p chans=1/no patch on 2
GMRONDO2 MID     22917 05-16-94   9:14p chans=1/no patch on 2
JINGLE2A MID      1625 05-16-94   9:16p no patches assigned
LISZTP1A MID     28641 05-16-94   9:18p chans=1
POLONAZ2 MID      3892 05-16-94   9:20p chans=1/no patch on 2
RACH336A MID     14961 05-16-94   9:22p no patches assigned
RAVEL2   MID     11239 05-16-94   9:24p no patches assigned
REVETUD2 MID     13521 05-16-94   9:25p no patches assigned
SONATAC2 MID      8279 05-16-94   9:29p chans=1/no patches
DESPRADO MID      6206 02-22-94  10:42p chans=1/no patches
JUDYBLUE MID     27538 02-22-94  10:56p chans=1/no patches
ONCETIME MID      7301 02-24-94  12:07p chans=1/no patches
ONWINGS  MID     10706 02-24-94  12:14p chans=1/no patches
SOMESAVE MID     21330 02-24-94   6:48p chans=1/no patches
THEDANCE MID      9712 01-28-94   8:47a chans=1/no patches
WHATLIFE MID      8801 02-24-94  12:25p chans=1/no patches

Other MIDs that were not worth fixing (not in the ZIP either)

ANGRYMAN.MID  drums on channel 16 --  legal but not GM
BBRG-2A.MID   no patches assigned (LOTS of them needed)
CONCERTO.MID  no patches assigned (LOTS of them needed)
EROICA.MID    many patches not assigned/wrong instrument on ch 10
RAGTIME.MID   "I'm sorry, you're just too darn loud" (famous quote)
              (volumes are all up near 127)
VOLTE.MID     no patches assigned/chan 10 is not percussion

Suggest you use your favorite midi sequencer to check all songs you
get to make sure they are set up to play correctly.  Winjammer gets 
the job done quickly.