*.MID files in preview have "decode error"

[cpusrvc]

Happens in 2 different computers, v9.20 & 9.30. They play in Irfanview just fine.

EDIT: computers are W7, x32 & x64

[nas8e9]

Happens in 2 different computers, v9.20 & 9.30. They play in Irfanview just fine.

EDIT: computers are W7, x32 & x64

Confirmed with 9.30.0023 on Windows 7 x64 RTM.

The odd thing is that Windows Media Player does play them correctly; I thought XYplorer uses the media facilities built into Windows/IE?

[admin]

Last time I tried they played well here. Can you send me one?

[nas8e9]

Last time I tried they played well here. Can you send me one?

Happy to if needed, but the .mid files that come with Windows 7 give the same problem:

C:\Windows\Media:
flourish.mid
onestop.mid
town.mid

[cpusrvc]

Last time I tried they played well here. Can you send me one?

Try this one ... plays in Irfanview (change the ext to MID)

EDIT: I thought it attached, I'll send by email

[cpusrvc]

Don, thanks for the email response that you can play the file. Obviously, I'm not the only one with this issue. I found the following MS article:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/window ... mspx#EJAAC says:
Windows Media Player is only used to show the playback progress of a .mid or .midi (MIDI Sequence) file while it is playing. Playback support for MIDI Sequence in Windows is actually provided by Microsoft DirectX and your sound card, not the Player.

The article has other info in case the file doesn't play that may apply to XY's implementation.

Like others have said, they can play MIDI files just not with XY, so I don't think its a missing CODEC.

[admin]

Don, thanks for the email response that you can play the file. Obviously, I'm not the only one with this issue. I found the following MS article:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/window ... mspx#EJAAC says:
Windows Media Player is only used to show the playback progress of a .mid or .midi (MIDI Sequence) file while it is playing. Playback support for MIDI Sequence in Windows is actually provided by Microsoft DirectX and your sound card, not the Player.

The article has other info in case the file doesn't play that may apply to XY's implementation.

Like others have said, they can play MIDI files just not with XY, so I don't think its a missing CODEC.

Thanks, but the article does not tell me anything I could use.
The question is: Why can I play it? Must be a CODEC I have.
But I don't have time for this anyway. Sorry, but MIDI has to wait.

[admin]

PS: next version will have a new AudioMCICustomExtensions tweak. Set to mid and see if that changes anything:

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AudioMCICustomExtensions=mid

[nas8e9]

PS: next version will have a new AudioMCICustomExtensions tweak. Set to mid and see if that changes anything:

Code: Select all

AudioMCICustomExtensions=mid

Solves it for me with 9.30.0024 on Windows 7 x64.

[admin]

PS: next version will have a new AudioMCICustomExtensions tweak. Set to mid and see if that changes anything:

Code: Select all

AudioMCICustomExtensions=mid

Solves it for me with 9.30.0024 on Windows 7 x64.

OK, I will add this setting for MID to the hard standards, so in the next version this tweak is no longer needed MID files. (The change of MID preview was an experiment I did more than 3 years ago -- so now it turns out it fails. )