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hey wait you could write a song with midi that's almost entirely printable ascii. with some effort, i wonder if it could even be valid utf-8. hmmmmm
@hikari Apropos of nothing I created a MIDI file using Perl some years ago that at the time Quicktime Player could play and browsers of the time could play but something is wrong with it and most music software I try to import it into cannot play it. I do not know how to fix this.
@mcc i would be more than happy to debug it for you, if you can get it to me via some reasonable medium! i have written a Standard MIDI File parser and know the MIDI spec like the back of my hand at this point, i can probably figure out what's wrong with it
@hikari !!
That is a very exciting offer! This is the MIDI file. https://data.runhello.com/file.mid
I cannot, for example, open it in VLC, testing on my windows 10 machine this second.
I will tell you what it is in the next post, but you might find it an interesting data puzzle to figure out what this song "is" on your own.
file.mid
@hikari It's Eratosthenes Sieve as jazz piano. Every beat that you hear silence, it's computed a prime number (IE it means the timestep is relatively prime to all numbers 0-127).
file.mid
@mcc oops, I clicked through the spoiler without thinking, which is a shame, but it does explain… why this is like this, maybe