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