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

[Greg Kucharo <telecaster@mac.com>]

   Also, nominally MacOS Error -39 is a disk error. If you have a 
utility like Norton or TechTool you probably want to run it on the 
drive to look for disk corruption.


On Thursday, October 10, 2002, at 01:48 PM, Greg Kucharo wrote:

>   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
>>
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