A good MIDI writing/edting library?

[Dwindle]

I need to find an easy to use library for writing midi files. Can somebody recommend one, and probably walk me through how to install it later? I'm using dev-cpp.

[Geminias]

what are midi files? sorry i can't help but i'm interested to know what they are. is it the music encoding?

[wtd]

http://midiio.sapp.org/

I have absolutely no experience with it, but it was the first result in a Google search for "midi c++ cross platform".

[[Gandalf]]

Midi (.mid or .midi) files contain information that the computer generates into music. The files are usually only a few kb in size because they don't actually hold a recording, the song is played by the computer based on whatever midi library is available. So no, it's not really a kind of encoding. If you're interested in creating your own midi files do a google search for some midi creation software.

For more info, check wikipedia.org.

[Dwindle]

Well you see, I'm not totally incompetent and I already did try google searching it. I came across this before but I didnt know how to use it. It's just one big text file. Do I just include the text file in a program where I making midi files?

[Geminias]

you could actually google it... if your not totally incompetant.

[Dwindle]

what? I said I DID already try googling it.

[md]

I would recoment ignoring geminias, he seems to be rather thick of late. As for your question I'm sure that there is some documentation for the library on it's site, just have a look around. An important part of writing programs is being able to find and read documentation

[[Gandalf]]

Come on, it's not THAT hard to find on their site .