Audio formats——.midi or .mp3

[Jessiswong]

Hello, thank you very much for your work, it is very meaningful, but I have some questions to seek your answers.
In the inference. py in Jazz Transformer,the final generation is the audio in .midi format, but in the final presentation and objective evaluation (MUSDR) you gave all the audio in .mp3 format. Is it necessary to do this? If so, how do you implement the midi to mp3 format conversion?
Looking forward to your reply.

[slSeanWU]

Hi,

Thanks for the message. Among the metrics, only Structureness Indicators (SI) depend on audio inputs, the others work on REMI encodings (check the symbolic/ directory).

As for midi to mp3 conversion, I use command-line synthesizer tool FluidSynth (https://www.fluidsynth.org/) and python package midi2audio (https://pypi.org/project/midi2audio/). You can also check this site: https://sites.google.com/site/soundfonts4u/ for better-sounding soundfonts.

Hope this helps!

[huangqing6]

Hello，I would like to know if there is a code to convert midi to mp3. If so, can you upload it?Thank you very much!