Doom Legacy's midi issue

[Danfun64]

This probably sounds completely obvious to many people, but the reason Doom Legacy's MIDI support is odd is because it uses a broken build of QMUS2MID, the same one available on the doom wiki I might add. The old d_runnin that Freedoom had showed the same brokenness when run through the qmus2mid build that I heard in Doom Legacy.

That is all.

[blueinferno776]

I did use doom legacy as my main for a while on my old and now dead windows xp desktop. Doom Legacy 1.44 alpha3 is what I used at the time, and yes the midi playback was really bad in a play though in the reverie wad. I used slade3 and converted all the MUS into MIDI and got flawless playback.

I went as far as doing this for all the iwad tunes. To me this was the perfect workaround and I hope this helps for the newer versions.

[Gez]

Danfun64 said:

a broken build of QMUS2MID, the same one available on the doom wiki I might add.

What do you mean by "available on the Doom Wiki", the wiki doesn't host any program.
There's this page but it merely links to a few programs available on /idgames. If you mean that /idgames also has a different QMUS2MID that works better, please give a link to it.

blueinferno776 said:

I did use doom legacy as my main for a while on my old and now dead windows xp desktop. Doom Legacy 1.44 alpha3 is what I used at the time, and yes the midi playback was really bad in a play though in the reverie wad. I used slade3 and converted all the MUS into MIDI and got flawless playback.

Reverie had a companion wad with all the music in original MIDI format; ZREVMIDI.WAD.

[Danfun64]

AFAIK, there isn't a better build of qmus2mid available on idgames.

[Coraline]

Does Legacy not have the program integrated at the source level?


Oops stupid question, sorry!!! Long day today.

EDIT III: does this broken behavior sound noticeable in other ports that use MUS2MID or just Legacy?