Re: cannot open any midi file with lilypond

[Mats Bengtsson]

Of course you can't use a MIDI file directly as input to
LilyPond, you first have to use midi2ly.
I hope you realize that LilyPond is one of these programs
where you cannot expect to be able to do anything useful at all
without reading the tutorial first.

  /Mats

Dimitrios Tzimeas wrote:
> hi!
>
> I have installed an ubuntu dapper (v.6.06) and
> lilypond ver 2.6.3. Unfortunately I cannot open any
> midi file with lilypond.I get the message:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
> GNU LilyPond 2.6.3
> Processing `/home/dtzimeas/Desktop/canarios.mid'
> Parsing...
> /usr/share/lilypond/2.6.3/ly/init.ly:27:0: error:
> syntax error, unexpected SCM_T, expecting '='
>
> #(if (and (ly:get-option 'old-relative)
> /home/dtzimeas/Desktop/canarios.mid: 0: warning: no
> \version statement found,  add
>
> \version "2.6.3"
>
> for future compatibility
> error: failed files:
> "/home/dtzimeas/Desktop/canarios.mid"
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> Trying to open midi files with noteedit I get:
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input
> device 168
>   Major opcode:  145
>   Minor opcode:  3
>   Resource id:  0x0
> Failed to open device
> X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input
> device 168
>   Major opcode:  145
>   Minor opcode:  3
>   Resource id:  0x0
> Failed to open device
> X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input
> device 168
>   Major opcode:  145
>   Minor opcode:  3
>   Resource id:  0x0
> Failed to open device
> X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input
> device 168
>   Major opcode:  145
>   Minor opcode:  3
>   Resource id:  0x0
> Failed to open device
> kbuildsycoca running...
> LilyPond check: found version: 2.6.3
> TSE3 OSS MIDI scheduler created
> TSE3 Copyright information :(c) Pete Goodliffe,
> 2000-2002. A Trax Software Product. Version: 0.3.1
> address@hidden:~$ noteedit
> /home/dtzimeas/Desktop/test.mid
> X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input
> device 168
>   Major opcode:  145
>   Minor opcode:  3
>   Resource id:  0x0
> Failed to open device
> X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input
> device 168
>   Major opcode:  145
>   Minor opcode:  3
>   Resource id:  0x0
> Failed to open device
> X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input
> device 168
>   Major opcode:  145
>   Minor opcode:  3
>   Resource id:  0x0
> Failed to open device
> X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input
> device 168
>   Major opcode:  145
>   Minor opcode:  3
>   Resource id:  0x0
> Failed to open device
> kbuildsycoca running...
> LilyPond check: found version: 2.6.3
> TSE3 OSS MIDI scheduler created
> TSE3 Copyright information :(c) Pete Goodliffe,
> 2000-2002. A Trax Software Product. Version: 0.3.1
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> Can you please help me?!
>
> Dimitrios
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