Scubacpa
11-22-2005, 10:53 AM
Somewhere along the line I mentioned that I had made a purchase on E-Bay for a 6 Disc CD set which was advertised as containing 975,000 midi files. I had promised to make a report when it arrived.
It arrived about a week ago and have spent a few hours with it. I can't verify the exact number of songs but it would not surprise me if it really is 975,000. Each CD contains about 20 to 50 zipped files, each zipped file has thousands of songs. So the quick math is 30 X 5,000 X 6 = 900,000 so the claim is probably correct.
However, there is absolutely NO organization or index or any other way to find a particular song. They are not grouped alphabetically (except of course within each zipped file). With a few excetptions the name of the zipped file contains no clue as to what's inside it. And (again with a few exceptions) once you do open a file there does not seem to be any logic as to why these were grouped together. I have just opened files at random and scanned for songs I recognized. The only way to really do it would be to unzip each file from each CD to one huge directory on a hard drive, and then via windows I would have them all alphabetically.
The other probem is that the names of the files are so long (the name contains the name of the song followed by a lot of useless information) the CVP does not recognize them so as I copy to a floppy or smart media card to play on the CVP I have to shorten the name. Kind of makes batch copying a chore.
I was expecting the first CD to have a file or database that had an alpha listing of the songs which would tell you which file on which CD contains it, or that they would have been grouped in alpha order and the zipped directories named aa-am, an-ao etc.
So ... bottom line ... It's pretty useless.
It arrived about a week ago and have spent a few hours with it. I can't verify the exact number of songs but it would not surprise me if it really is 975,000. Each CD contains about 20 to 50 zipped files, each zipped file has thousands of songs. So the quick math is 30 X 5,000 X 6 = 900,000 so the claim is probably correct.
However, there is absolutely NO organization or index or any other way to find a particular song. They are not grouped alphabetically (except of course within each zipped file). With a few excetptions the name of the zipped file contains no clue as to what's inside it. And (again with a few exceptions) once you do open a file there does not seem to be any logic as to why these were grouped together. I have just opened files at random and scanned for songs I recognized. The only way to really do it would be to unzip each file from each CD to one huge directory on a hard drive, and then via windows I would have them all alphabetically.
The other probem is that the names of the files are so long (the name contains the name of the song followed by a lot of useless information) the CVP does not recognize them so as I copy to a floppy or smart media card to play on the CVP I have to shorten the name. Kind of makes batch copying a chore.
I was expecting the first CD to have a file or database that had an alpha listing of the songs which would tell you which file on which CD contains it, or that they would have been grouped in alpha order and the zipped directories named aa-am, an-ao etc.
So ... bottom line ... It's pretty useless.