Looking for a happy midi-um

June 1, 2006 3:28 PM

I'm looking for software to convert bulk midi files to SMAF (MMF) format.

I'm looking at having to convert several hundred polyphonic midi files into 40-channel mmfs (i.e. Yamaha's SMAF format) for deployment as mobile ringtones.

A cursory glance at Google suggests that the world is full of software which will do this, but I wondering whether anybody had any experience with any of them.

The two I'm looking at -- Ringtone Creator and Mobile Music Pro both appear to do this, but are priced around the USD120 mark. It would be ideal if I could find some free (or, at least, free-er) software to do this. Do you know of any? It should run on Windows and either process files in bulk, or have a command-line interface.

By way of example, I recently found a perl script which was an ideal replacement for Nokia's bulky Mobile Internet Toolkit for adding Forward Locking statements to midi and AMR files. Anything come to mind?

posted by John Shaft to Computers & Internet (2 answers total)

Have you seen Yamahas software tools page. I haven't tried them, so I don't know if they will do bulk conversions. From what I read on Hydrogen Audio, it doesn't seem like they can be run from the command line.
posted by birchhook at 6:15 PM on June 1, 2006

For what it's worth, you can automate anything in windows using AutoIt. So, if you find something free that'll do single files, you can probably throw together a pretty simple script to get your task done.
posted by ph00dz at 8:07 PM on June 1, 2006