Random idea: Using MIDI to for WAV file compression
Posted by: JonGalloway.ToString(),
on 11 Aug 2005 |
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Since even mobile devices now have basic General MIDI support now, what about approximating digital audio as a stream of very short MIDI notes Encoding seems like it would be reasonably simple - do a best fit of each 100ms audio sample with a library cached samples of a few hundred MIDI samples converted to raw WAV format, then stream the MIDI info. Obviously this could be optimized with some math smarts and statistical analysis on voice and music data. It wouldn't handle polyphonic music well,...