MIDI song text
Hi!
Many MIDI-files you can download from the web contain lyrics. But are these always visible? Do you some times have to turn them on? In another music score program, I think I got the lyrics in when I chose a special alternative of some kind. But when I opened the same MIDI-file in Musescore, I didn't get any lyrics. I'm quite sure it was the same MIDI-file...
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Did you search before posting? See http://musescore.org/en/search/apachesolr_search/midi%20lyrics, if I read it correclty importing MIDI files with lyrics does work already (but possibly only in the upcomming version 2.0, so try a nigtly build), exporting MIDI with lyrics had been requested but has not yet been done.
In reply to Did you search before by Jojo-Schmitz
Yes, I did, but I couldn't see any answers to my problem... I'm quite sure I got text in with the MIDI-file attached (pretty fly) in this program: http://www.notation.com/NotationComposer.php . But now my licence has expired, so I'm unable to check. Is somebody able to see if there is lyrics included in any of the MIDIs attached?
In reply to Yes, I did, but I couldn't by Trlv
I believe "Lemon Tree (Êàðàîêå).mid" does contain lyrics but none of the others (I've looked at them with a plain text editor)
But neither 1.2 not the current nightly build shows them
In reply to I believe "Lemon Tree by Jojo-Schmitz
I can confirm that JoJo
Examining the tracks in Anvil Studio shows that Lemon Tree (Êàðàîêå) contains a lyric track with just lyrics and no notes.
None of the other SMFs contain lyrics.
I suspect that MuseScore is not displaying the lyrics as they are not attached to note events, but in a separate lyric track with its own delta timings.
This kind of MIDI file is very common on the Internet, sometimes having a .KAR suffix instead of .MID and are used by MIDI Karaoke players. The lyrics track is separate so these players can display the lyrics on screen