So I continued to read the "SETUP.txt" file that is included in the extracted Timidity installer files and it states that "Timidity doesn't work by itself" and goes on to list the many, many other files that one needs to gather from the far reaches of the internet from the bygone era of 2004 and how to configure them before Timidity will work. and it just may, but when I opened, unzipped and extracted the Timidity installer files, they didn't work. but I thought, what the heck, Windows 7 runs other apps from circa 2000, so why not Timidity from 2004?. So I followed the link for "Timidity" from the Audacity page ( ) and downloaded Timidity from an old page that was last updated in 2004. so I thought great, this will convert them to WAV format so I can then edit the WAV file, essentially a recording of the MIDI, in Audacity. So I read on the Audacity page about "Timidity" for converting MIDI files. gro file in WinFF, which converts anything otherwise, but it gives the command prompt display notation of "Unknown Format" for both the MIDI and the. then I tried converting both a MIDI and a. gro" format, but then nothing can be done with that ".gro" file. So I tried "Export MIDI", and it does export MIDI files to something called "Allegro. so in reality, Audacity opens a MIDI file to show the little MIDI piano, the little numbers 1-16 colored tabs and the long series of tone annotations in the tracks area, but nothing can be done with it at all. but while Audacity imports and displays a MIDI file, no matter what I do, it doesn't seem to want to cut or trim it in any way. Now, aside from the obvious problem and following questions about that limitation, I thought, "okay, I can listen to them in WMP or QuickTime, make note of how many seconds in to a MIDI song file that I want to cut it, and then edit it in a blind (or deaf) way in Audacity that way. I read that Audacity page about MIDI files ( ) and it says that I can cut and paste pieces of MIDI files apart and edit them, but without the ability to play or listen to them in Audacity.
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