[jmsl] MIDI File Transcriber Crashes

[jmsl at music.columbia.edu]

Great Greg, looking forward to your results.
I meant that most playback software would not be affected (as opposed to 
transcribing software) since playback typically would not need to read 
time signatures.
But I just tried importing your Handel MIDI file into Finale 2004a and 
it stopped after measure 8 which showed a time signature of 248/4 (!).
Similarly, Finale showed a few bars of 250/4 after importing the Mozart 
example (but did not terminate on these bars)
So Finale is not taking the absolute value, it is confusing the negative 
bits and producing big 8 bit numbers.
Thanks
Nick


Greg Wilder wrote:
> Nick,
>
> Thank you so much for taking the time necessary to dig into this.
>
> I was aware the MIDI files in question contained unusual elements, but I
> didn't realize they had measures with a negative numerator in the time
> signature!  As you suggest, most other transcription software is not
> bothered by this and simply displays the absolute value.
>
> I will grab the updated pre-release and give it a whirl first thing
> tomorrow morning.
>
> Best,
> Greg
>
>