- From: James Ingram <j.ingram@netcologne.de>
- Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:33:03 +0100
- To: public-audio@w3.org
> > Chris Wilson said > > > >> The best way to advocate for support for playing SMFs is to have a > >> rock-solid scenario, that isn't clearly addressable some other way, for > >> doing so, and taking it to the vendors. > >> > > (James Ingram) Maybe if we had the level of support I describe above, it would be much > > easier to implement the playing of SMFs. > > > > That sounds like you're saying "focus on the low-level API first." Is that > right? Yes, I think that's the easiest and best way for you to go. I need basic MIDI support, but I don't actually need to play SMFs from inside a browser. I think audio formats are better if you simply want to play whole pieces. Of course it would be nice to be able to play MIDI from an <audio> tag, but that's not really where MIDI shines. There must be quite a few situations in which it would be helpful to allow users to step through scores in their own time. Everything from teaching to music-minus-one. All the best, James
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