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    Dec 23, 2005, 11:04 AM
    Midi Music
    Would like to know if there is any sites in Google where midi music also has words in them.
    Thanks
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    Dec 27, 2005, 04:22 AM
    Hi from my experience I don't think that midi can have words in due to the compression format used. I may be wrong bu tthats what I was told. Thanks
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    Dec 27, 2005, 06:17 AM
    Midi's
    Hi,
    Midi's don't have words in them. My wife has an unbelievable collection of Midi's, plus other types of songs.
    I've never heard any words in a Midi. They are the "simplest" of all songs, being not very large in size.
    You can find a "normal" song on the web for just about any Midi. Best of luck.
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    Jan 11, 2006, 10:58 PM
    MIDI stands for "Musical Instrument Digital Interface". It is a codec that only inludes "on and off" commands for various notes; i.e. it is not a recording of a waveform, and therefore cannot possibly have lyrics. In other words, it is not a recording of an existing sound, but rather like a series of instructions to the computer - i.e. imagine the computer pulling out a piano or violin or whatever, and then consulting the MIDI file merely to know which keys to press or which strings to strum to produce the disired tune from scratch.

    The closest you can get to having lyrics in a MIDI file is the variation known as the *.KAR format, which allows karaoke-style lyrics to be displayed on the computer screen (but not actual spoken lyrics).

    For more information, see the Wikipedia article about MIDI.
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