Re: MIDI files problem on a Mac: "Logical end-of-file reached..."

[Greg Kucharo <telecaster@mac.com>]

   Indeed...that raises a good point. It may be that Stuffit is doing 
something bad to the files during expansion or compression.


On Thursday, October 10, 2002, at 02:32 PM, Chris Roberts wrote:

> MIDI files are completely portable... unless it in a 'mac binary' 
> format,
> which is a format which includes a header that defines such things as 
> type/creator.
> If that were the case, and,it were not converted to a real MIDI file, 
> it
> is certanily unknown what would happen. Most MIDI apps look for a 
> signature
> (MThd) at the start of the file, and if they don't find it, they refuse
> to open it. But, it is possible that they would also scan from the 
> start
> looking for the signature and being processing it from there... blah.. 
> blah..
> blah... But, again, unless there were two versions of this MIDI file 
> (one
> for mac, and the other for non-mac), it would make no sense to think 
> that
> it was in mac-binary format... well, just my two cents... :)
>
> peace
> -cpr
>
>> -- Original Message --
>> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 13:48:08 -0700
>> Subject: Re: MIDI files problem on a Mac: "Logical end-of-file 
>> reached..."
>> From: Greg Kucharo <telecaster@mac.com>
>> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>> Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>>
>>
>>   Hrm.  If the file was originally produced on Windows, and it sounds
>
>> like it, a Mac program may have problems reading the file as Windows
>> and Mac file formats are different. Even if the file is a "portable"
>> format like a MIDI file. It's probably not actually corrupt, but
>> obviously DP and others are having a problem.
>>   MacOS 9.x have a PC/Mac file conversion control panel called File
>> Exchange. You might check if it's enabled and configured. It may or 
>> may
>
>> not do anything helpful to this problem.
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, October 10, 2002, at 12:10 PM, sine@zerocrossing.net 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey gang,
>>>
>>> the other night I as attempting to upgrade the OS on my Roland 
>>> MC-307.
>>
>>>  I
>>> downloaded the files (standard MIDI files in a .sit archive) 
>>> unstuffed
>>
>>> them,
>>> and loaded them up into Digital Performer.  They would either freeze
>
>>> my Mac, or
>>> cause the 307 to freeze every time.  The result?  Now I have no OS on
>
>>> my
>>> MC-307.  Boots up to a blank screen.
>>>
>>> Called Roland tech service and they led me to a MIDI player utility
>>> called
>>> Q-midi and they resent me the files in case mine were corrupt.  When
> I
>>
>>> tried to
>>> open them in Q-MIDI I got an error that said, "Logical end-of-file
>>> reached
>>> during read.  Error -39"  Same thing with Cakewalk's Metro5.  Same
>>> thing with
>>> the original files I downloaded, and the files that Roland emailed 
>>> me.
>>
>>>  Funny
>>> thing is, the quicktime player will actually play the files, but I
>>> can't divert
>>> that output to my Fastlane USB MIDI interface.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?  I'm running Mac OS 9.2.2.  There's PC MIDI players and PC
>
>>> drivers
>>> for the MOTU Fastlane MIDI interface, and I'm going to try them, as
>>> well as the
>>> OSX drivers, tonight.  Before I did, I was just wondering if anyone
>>> has had
>>> similar problems with MIDI files on a Mac.  Roland said they send
>>> these files
>>> out all the time with no problems.  Mac and PC.  Weird.  They were
>>> happy to
>>> have me bring the unit in to an authorized service center for the
>>> upgrade at no
>>> cost, but I thought I'd give it one more time before losing the unit
>
>>> for a
>>> week.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Mark Sottlilaro
>>>
>>
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