MP3 TO MIDI?

Yeah, midis aren't sound recordings like an MP3, they're essentially sheet music that the computer reads and interprets and plays. You can't convert something from MP3 to midi.

Personally I would just reduce the bitrate of the MP3 if it's a problem. (Is OGG even any smaller than MP3? I thought they were basically identical. It's just the bitrate that affects the size, right?)

Frankly I never understand people's concern to work so hard to make their games smaller, in this day and age. MP3s are pretty small to begin with, unless you have hundreds and hundreds of them. I downloaded a 600 MB amateur game yesterday from Megaupload and I didn't even think about it. 600 MB is so tiny. RPG Maker games have poor enough quality already without making the audio sound like shit too.

Times have changed, I never understood this either. It's easier today to download a song as some 60 meg .wav file than a 6 meg mp3 when this hobby started.

I was actually thinking that with continued gains in download speeds and hard drive space the MP3 might be obsolete in a few years time, in favor of higher quality sound formats. I think today an average mp3 file is almost proportionately as small as an average midi was back in 2000.

There are mp3 to midi programs, but they suck big time.

An MP3, OGG, WMA etc. file is a compressed version of a WAV file, which is a file that measures pressure upon the diaphragm of a microphone. It does not distinguish what type of noise is creating that pressure, whether its a car horn, a violin, or a bird chirping.

A MIDI file is a file read by a computer that is comprised of a series of sequenced notes with specific instrument patches. Think of a MIDI file as sheet music that a computer reads and plays LIVE for you, instead of saving all the sound data in a file and then playing what was already recorded. As you can see, a MIDI does not in any way shape or form contain the same data an MP3 holds. This is why an MP3 is so much larger than a midi. Therefore, conversion from MP3 to midi usually requires someone manually composing the score that makes up the MP3 into a midi sequencer to emulate the song. It won't sound remotely even the same.

That said, there is software that analyzes mp3s and such and creates a basic midi file what the perceived pitches of each note. But like I mentioned earlier, there's generally no way to measure what kind of instrument made each sound on an MP3 file, so files created with this kind of software are generally intended to just be a "start" for midi composers to go in and touch up. Can save a lot of time, but won't be practical for those who aren't already familiar with the format.

Actually you can convert mp3 to midi. There is a program ,which name I've forgotten, that would allow you to import mp3 songs and it'll covert it over into midi format. It'll change everything over into it's midi counterpart. I think Guitar Pro allows it. I think it is Guitar Pro 2 or 3. Might be 1,2,3 and whatever else they've released for it by now.