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This collection
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"The Very Best of GUS MIDI"
and was part of
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Configuring your Browser 		Classic
Piano
Pop I
Pop II
Add-On Pack I
Add-On Pack II
Add-On Pack III 		Special Editions
Classic
Piano
Pop I
Pop II
Add-On Pack I
Add-On Pack II
Add-On Pack III 		Send an Email
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Special Edition - Click on the image for immediate download:
[TV&Movie Collection]
Last updated on Apr. 11th 1996

The Info Section
The 'Very Best of GUS MIDI' Collection
- the quality MIDI collection -
IMPORTANT NOTICE :
All MIDI files in my collection are provided for personal use only.
It was always and is still my intention not to violate any copyrights by offering this service for MIDI fans. If you find any MIDI files in my collection that must not be distributed please inform me. I am sure that we can settle any conflict peacefully.
All these MIDI files are freely available in various places on the Internet. All I did is compiling a collection of the very best. My sources are all freely accessible for every Internet user. I certainly did not take commercial MIDI packs or rip MIDI files from games software.
Music companies should note that these MIDI files cannot replace professional recordings on CD or MC. I think that MIDI files are actually a kind of free advertising for your music. Why else would so many people ask for song titles and artists of these MIDI files.

General Info :
The 'Very Best of GUS MIDI' collection (aka BESTMID collection) comprises more than 650 public domain MIDI files that sound great on the Gravis Ultrasound (GUS) and (probably) any other General MIDI soundcard/synthesizer. I select only the very best tunes from the thousands(!) of MIDI files available on the Internet. Only about 5-10 % (!) of the MIDI files I try out are good enough for my collection.
I distinquish between Classic, Piano and Pop tunes, where "Pop" is everything that doesn't fit into "Classic" or "Piano".
New Add-On Packs are released roughly twice a year. Watch this space for details!

Collection file names, file sizes and contents :
The Collection consists of 7 Files so far:

Special Edition:

MIDI file names and descriptions :
Text files inluding filenames, (known) song titles and authors are available as extended directory lists
Directory lists last updated on April 11th 1996.

Attention : There are a lot of files with '?' (question marks) in the description. Anyone who can tell me the song title and/or the author of one of these files gets - a honorable mention on this page ...
Thanks in advance.

Configuring your browser to play MIDI files :
Macintosh users please read the information on this site: Bi gSky MacEzine Issue 22 (page 4)

The following steps are for Netscape 2.x for Windows and may vary on other platforms.

  1. Select General Preferences from the Options menu). A dialog box appears.
  2. Select the Helper Apps card from the menu at the top. The appearence of the dialog box changes accordingly.
  3. Click on the button Create New Type.... A new small dialog box appears.
  4. Type in 'audio' as Mime Type and 'midi' as Mime SubType (without the quotes!). Click on the OK button.
  5. Type in 'mid' in the File Extensions field.
  6. Select Lauch the Application and type in 'mplayer /play'. (Windows 95: type '"Mplayer" /play' (with the double quotes!))
  7. Click on the OK button and try it out with one of the MIDI files in the Try-Out Section!
Note: If you want to offer MIDI files for immediate play on your own page, you'll have to ask your server administrator to add the MIME type "audio/midi" to the default configuration of the httpd server.

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The Try-Out Section
Try before you download! Here are some of my favourite MIDI files from the collection:

A step-by-step guide how to configure Netscape to play these MIDI files can be found in the Info Section!

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The Download Section
Attention: File sizes are up to 1.4 MB - see Info Section for details!

Download zipped parts of the Collection from:

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The Feedback Section
"Your Web pages are better than sex... well, as good as sex... almost as good as sex! :-)" - Stefan L.

Ah... whatever you think about my collection - please send me email or Sign Guestbook The Guestbook Is Working Now!

Please understand that I cannot fulfill requests for MIDI files.

A big Thank You to all the people who sent me feedback, especially
Scott Benson: for the infos about configuring Netscape for the audio/midi MIME type
Bud Henley: for the MIDI information page in his BigSky MacEzine (is sue 22, page 4)
Philip Taylor: for the infos about configuring Netscape 2.x for Windows 95

Special Thanks go to all FTP server admins.

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New author: Joshua Kay, email to: MIDI-Collection@webtv.net
Vice President: Loree Hansen
Original author: Gerd Reichinger

Last modified: January 1st 1999.
Access count since December 1998.

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