On Wed 27 Sep 2023 at 10:22:04 (+0200), David Kastrup wrote: > David Wright writes: > > On Wed 27 Sep 2023 at 01:13:09 (+0200), Jean Abou Samra wrote: > >> After replacing “ ... ” with “ c' ”, I got the expected MIDI output with > >> LilyPond 2.24.2, i.e., lots of silence and four C notes at the end. > > > > I did the same, and I attach a screenshot of audacious playing the > > file, called mid.midi. The little white blip above the Play button > > is the equaliser graph displaying the first c' at 2 min 40 sec of > > playing time. (Yawn.) > > > > I also attach a screenshot of timidity playing the same file. Notice > > the length of the file: 4 seconds; and that's how long it plays for. > > That's all circumstantial evidence. Nobody so far has actually attached > the resulting MIDI file and/or the output of > > lilymidi --pretty > > on it. That would be way more informative.
I dashed off my first reply before I dashed off to choir practice, just to give a (correct, as it turned out) hint to the OP to try playing the file with a different player. I didn't really look at the code as it involved repeats, and I know they've been changed in some way, which I haven't yet read up on. When I got back, I saw only Jean's reply, which still didn't mention how the file was being played, so I thought I'd give examples that showed the contrasting behaviour between two different players. Yes, like lilymidi --pretty, the evidence that there was silence at the beginning of the file is circumstantial, necessitating that the OP believed I sat through the 160 seconds of silence before any notes were played. BTW where is the output of lilymidi documented? Cheers, David.
