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List:       lilypond-user
Subject:    Re: MIDI track names
From:       Vaughan McAlley <vaughan () mcalley ! net ! au>
Date:       2015-07-31 13:44:39
Message-ID: CAHQcDOaobsDyM2VrzHvE6ACq9KW0e05X-18-GnEYV29Xg=Y5sg () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 31 July 2015 at 17:23, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Vaughan McAlley <vaughan@mcalley.net.au> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I analyse MIDI files for things like tessitura and consecutives. Lilypond
> > MIDI files either don't have track names, or are called :uniqueContext0,
> > :uniqueContext1 etc. I can't be sure that the numbers are going down the
> > score from top to bottom. Is there any way of setting track names from
> > within Lilypond?
> >
> > (A MIDI track name is a meta-event FF 03 (variable length) then the name
> > string. It looks like :uniqueContext0 is some default that should be able
> > to be overridden).
>
> Have you tried naming your Staff contexts?
>
> --
> David Kastrup

Ha ha, I haven't named a context in a while, but it did the trick. Thanks!

Vaughan

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