cimo Posted July 18, 2008 Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 Once upon a time, I would have linked you here: http://www.borg.com/~jglatt/tech/midispec.htm :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(It's a sad time, the online midi community should mourn that site.... try midi.org.this is way too bad, do you think is there a way to contact the guy and ask him fo rth web files? I/we could host it, that was the best resource ever!Simone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enth Posted July 18, 2008 Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 Try wayback machine ;)http://web.archive.org/web/20070820161159/http://www.borg.com/~jglatt/tech/midispec.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cimo Posted July 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 errr.. i haven t had my second coffe of the morning yet... :)tx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m00dawg Posted July 18, 2008 Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 Whoa that site rocks! Well, after playing around with it I was able to figure it out. It wasn't near as hard as I thought it would be. :) Thanks for all the help everyone! And I agree, someone needs to figure out how to resurrect the site, apart from having to use Wayback :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stryd_one Posted July 18, 2008 Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 I'm aware of wayback machine but the importance of that site is lost on you if you think that's good enough. That site is to midi, what google is to searching. ;)There's a lot more to it than just that midi spec page - windows programming info being one.. Jeff put in a LOT of hard work teaching a lot of people about midi and how to use it with their gear, be that gear a PC, mac, synth or midibox or whatever....The sites been there since forever too.If anyone is able to somehow make a complete working copy of the entire site, I am sure we could find a host.... I'd prefer to have the name's permission before hosting it but if he has just disappeared as it seems.....What can we do? A couple of us have tried to email him but it returns an NDR saying his mailbox is full.It occurred to me that maybe the hosting company would be able to get the data for us from backup tapes, perhaps for a small fee (which I will pay).... But I think they'll want Jeff's permission to do that.If anyone else is keen on trying to resurrect the site I'll help them to find assistance if they need it. A couple of emails to some of the big audio blogs like matrixsynth etc would surely spark up some interest.Note: If we do get it back up, full credit for the content will remain with Jeff - it's only right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enth Posted July 18, 2008 Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 In any case, someone should "spider" the website in the meantime. And check for any missing files/pictures. Wayback machine doesen't always include bigger images or files. At least one picture is missing, dunno if earlier snapshots have it? I'd do it myself but I'm currently running on my back-system's back-up system... with Linux... behaving badly >:( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arumblack Posted July 18, 2008 Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 I printed out the midi spec from that site long ago, when I could only find it by paying money anywhere else.....Sad to see it go. Hopefully it can be saved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stryd_one Posted July 18, 2008 Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 Well wayback machine killed my spider... Anyone have any luck there/other ideas?Still, it doesn't get the images back :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enth Posted July 18, 2008 Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 Make the spider act/seem more like browser?- Try limiting your spider to use only one HTTP connection at a time".- Try finding a "stealth" mode of somesort, On default spiders indentify themselves as such...On last resolt one could also save the webpages by hand but it would be time-consuming and tedious task, and all links to pictures and pages would have to remade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stryd_one Posted July 18, 2008 Report Share Posted July 18, 2008 By hand :o check out the whole site, that's hundreds of pages and thousands of links!Yeh I figured I'd tweak the app a bit... I think wayback are well tooled against such things, but we'll see ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enth Posted July 22, 2008 Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 Any progress? I could give it a try, I've got the time :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stryd_one Posted July 22, 2008 Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 Very little progress here I'm afraid. Please give it a try if you like :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted July 22, 2008 Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 I'm going to redo it. (by hand)I'll put a new version online soon, i promise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stryd_one Posted July 22, 2008 Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 Awesome. I have a pdf and a bunch of HTML etc saved here if you want?Shout out if I can help any other way! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cimo Posted July 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 If we can split to job in several part and distribute it among all interested it could be doable with less effort, i am in! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enth Posted July 22, 2008 Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 Let's get organized people!:DBill, just say what partition in what way you want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bugfight Posted July 22, 2008 Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 i'll help if needed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nILS Posted July 22, 2008 Report Share Posted July 22, 2008 A quick'n'dirty download/mass-find/replace lead to this:http://schickt.de/_midispec/Hope that helps until bill's got the new version online. There's some missing files though (the ones that were missing in the wayback snapshot I downloaded). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 A quick'n'dirty download/mass-find/replace lead to this:http://schickt.de/_midispec/that's allready perfect.Stryd sent me the missing pages, so i think i have almost everything.Then, i'm just going to use a css to make it look better :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nILS Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 If you want a zipped version of it, let me know.edit: Ahhh wtf. Zip is attached.midispec.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lylehaze Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 A valuable website for all things MIDI recently disappeared. I was unable to reach the name by E-mail, so I did a web search and tried writing some snail-mail.I was lucky to reach him, and he has asked that I pass the NEW address of the "MIDI Fanatics Technical Brainwashing Center" along to all my friends.SO if you want any info on MIDI the MIDI protocol, the MIDI file format, MIDI interfaces, or whatever. Here we are again!http://home.roadrunner.com/~jgglatt/Website is compliments of Jeff Glatt.Enjoy,LyleHaze Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nILS Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 http://www.midibox.org/forum/index.php/topic,11828.0.html ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stryd_one Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 AWESOME!!!!!!!!!:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :DI was lucky to reach himYou have no idea! At least a half dozen people have tried with no joy at all... I was about to start canvassing newsgroups he frequents, in attempt to find him :DThanks Lyle (and Jeff if you read this) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lylehaze Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 Sometimes Snail-Mail is the only way.I'm glad it worked.Thanks Jeff!Lyle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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