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Re: MIDI files problem on a Mac: "Logical end-of-file reached..."

   Hrm.  If the file was originally produced on Windows, and it sounds 
like it, a Mac program may have problems reading the file as Windows 
and Mac file formats are different. Even if the file is a "portable" 
format like a MIDI file. It's probably not actually corrupt, but 
obviously DP and others are having a problem.
   MacOS 9.x have a PC/Mac file conversion control panel called File 
Exchange. You might check if it's enabled and configured. It may or may 
not do anything helpful to this problem.


On Thursday, October 10, 2002, at 12:10 PM, sine@zerocrossing.net wrote:

> Hey gang,
>
> the other night I as attempting to upgrade the OS on my Roland MC-307. 
>  I
> downloaded the files (standard MIDI files in a .sit archive) unstuffed 
> them,
> and loaded them up into Digital Performer.  They would either freeze 
> my Mac, or
> cause the 307 to freeze every time.  The result?  Now I have no OS on 
> my
> MC-307.  Boots up to a blank screen.
>
> Called Roland tech service and they led me to a MIDI player utility 
> called
> Q-midi and they resent me the files in case mine were corrupt.  When I 
> tried to
> open them in Q-MIDI I got an error that said, "Logical end-of-file 
> reached
> during read.  Error -39"  Same thing with Cakewalk's Metro5.  Same 
> thing with
> the original files I downloaded, and the files that Roland emailed me. 
>  Funny
> thing is, the quicktime player will actually play the files, but I 
> can't divert
> that output to my Fastlane USB MIDI interface.
>
> Any ideas?  I'm running Mac OS 9.2.2.  There's PC MIDI players and PC 
> drivers
> for the MOTU Fastlane MIDI interface, and I'm going to try them, as 
> well as the
> OSX drivers, tonight.  Before I did, I was just wondering if anyone 
> has had
> similar problems with MIDI files on a Mac.  Roland said they send 
> these files
> out all the time with no problems.  Mac and PC.  Weird.  They were 
> happy to
> have me bring the unit in to an authorized service center for the 
> upgrade at no
> cost, but I thought I'd give it one more time before losing the unit 
> for a
> week.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark Sottlilaro
>