From: mab22@po.CWRU.Edu (Michael A. Balfour)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Need Help converting Midi Files
Date: 9 Aug 1993 18:24:08 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)

To use MIDI files on your Mac, you have to make sure you're doing
a few things:

1)  Download them using the Binary format, if the files aren't stored
with the extension ".hqx" (most aren't).  Using fetch, you'd turn
off the "Automatic" button, and choose the "Binary" button.

2)  If the file's extension is anything besides ".mid", you have
to decode it.  ".hqx" is for Binhex, ".sit" is for Stuffit, ".cpt"
is for Compactor, ".zip" is for UnZip, ".Z" is for MacCompress (I
think), and I'm forgetting the one for UULite.

3)  Once you have your ".mid" file, you need to change the type and
creator of the file so that your sequencer recognizes it.  You can
use either ResEdit or FileTyper to do this.  The type should be "Midi"
and the creator should be "mdos"  (quotes not included).

You can find all programs mentioned above at sumex and most other
Mac archives.

Mike Balfour
CWRU Senior