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https://www.midiworld.com/files/

can't be found.

Anyone ?
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On Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:51:45 -0400, casagiannoni@optonline.net wrote:

https://www.midiworld.com/files/

can't be found.

Anyone ?

I'm not sure what this has to do with Windows 11, but ...

Both the URL you gave and the root URL https://www.midiworld.com/
return an error "SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] No such file or directory".

You can enter your URL in https://archive.org/web and select a recent
backup.
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On Mon, 4/27/2026 3:51 PM, casagiannoni@optonline.net wrote:

https://www.midiworld.com/files/

can't be found.

Anyone ?

Because of the constant bombardment of LLM-AI, using up all
the server bandwidth, the administrators of some servers
have shut them down. The main web site may answer a ping,
but the gigabytes of content are no longer accessible.

The problem with the LLM-AI, is after they have scraped a site,
they will turn around 12 hours later and do it again... without end.
The AI are not on a mission, this is not "agentic" scraping. It is
content scraping, and one copy of the content should be sufficient
for any normal person. But the AI fanatics at the companies that
are full of sucker-money, they don't care, and they leave their
table saw running 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Google claimed in a recent court filing that "the Internet is dead",
and... this is remarkably prescient of them. The owner of the
Framework computer business claims "personal computing is dead",
and again, there is a degree of truth to this.

If you were wondering why everything is going to shit, just
look around you and it isn't hard to figure out.

The information for what is going on at the servers, is in
discussion threads on the forums they run. The administrator
is run ragged trying to shore up the server defenses, but at
some point they've had enough and they pull the plug.

Paul
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On Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:57:16 -0400, Paul wrote:

The problem with the LLM-AI, is after they have scraped a site, they
will turn around 12 hours later and do it again... without end.
The AI are not on a mission, this is not "agentic" scraping. It is
content scraping, and one copy of the content should be sufficient for
any normal person. But the AI fanatics at the companies that are full of sucker-money, they don't care, and they leave their table saw running 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Back when this all started ChatGPT was clueless about anything that
happened past 2021, iirc, because that's when they scraped the web and
trained the model. I'm not surprised that in an attempt to remain current they've turned it into a continuous process. Training the model is what
takes the most resources.

I'm hoping Musk's suit clips Scam Altman's wings.
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On 4/28/2026 3:51 AM, casagiannoni@optonline.net wrote:

https://www.midiworld.com/files/
can't be found.
Anyone ?

You talking about MIDI the music instruments protcol?

midi files - Google Search
https://www.google.com/search?q=midi+files

midiworld website closed - Google Search <https://www.google.com/search?q=midiworld+website+closed>
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On Tue, 4/28/2026 12:05 AM, rbowman wrote:

On Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:57:16 -0400, Paul wrote:

The problem with the LLM-AI, is after they have scraped a site, they
will turn around 12 hours later and do it again... without end.
The AI are not on a mission, this is not "agentic" scraping. It is
content scraping, and one copy of the content should be sufficient for
any normal person. But the AI fanatics at the companies that are full of
sucker-money, they don't care, and they leave their table saw running 24
hours a day, seven days a week.

Back when this all started ChatGPT was clueless about anything that
happened past 2021, iirc, because that's when they scraped the web and trained the model. I'm not surprised that in an attempt to remain current they've turned it into a continuous process. Training the model is what takes the most resources.

I'm hoping Musk's suit clips Scam Altman's wings.

I'm hoping the bubble bursts, and they're all turned into stone.

They're proposing building datacenters, on any land surface where
the regulations are lax enough to support 9GW of natural gas turbines.
If there is any level of government they can bribe to get their
way, they will do it.

Paul
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Appreciate all the responces, although with my limited knowledge can't
follow much.

Sure going to miss midiworld.

Anywhere else to get midi music ?
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Appreciate all the responses although with my limited knowledge can't
follow much.

Sure going to miss midiworld.

Anywhere else to get midi music ?
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On Tue, 4/28/2026 2:07 PM, casagiannoni@optonline.net wrote:

Appreciate all the responses although with my limited knowledge can't
follow much.

Sure going to miss midiworld.

Anywhere else to get midi music ?

The Archive may have some of them. This is one thing that saves
civilization from stupidity.

https://web.archive.org/web/20251109163109/https://www.midiworld.com/files/

Paul

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On Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:41:46 -0400, casagiannoni@optonline.net wrote:

Appreciate all the responces, although with my limited knowledge can't
follow much.

Sure going to miss midiworld.

Anywhere else to get midi music ?

It looks like you haven't paid any attention to the answer I posted
yesterday.
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On Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:22:18 -0400, Paul wrote:

On Tue, 4/28/2026 2:07 PM, casagiannoni@optonline.net wrote:

[quoted text muted]
Sure going to miss midiworld.

Anywhere else to get midi music ?

The Archive may have some of them. This is one thing that saves
civilization from stupidity.

https://web.archive.org/web/20251109163109/https://www.midiworld.com/files/

I posted as much yesterday, but the OP apparently ignored it. It
really is disappointing when a poster with a legitimate question
doesn't pay any attention to the answers that people took the trouble
to send.
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On Tue, 4/28/2026 9:59 PM, Stan Brown wrote:

On Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:22:18 -0400, Paul wrote:

On Tue, 4/28/2026 2:07 PM, casagiannoni@optonline.net wrote:

[quoted text muted]
Sure going to miss midiworld.

Anywhere else to get midi music ?

The Archive may have some of them. This is one thing that saves
civilization from stupidity.

https://web.archive.org/web/20251109163109/https://www.midiworld.com/files/

I posted as much yesterday, but the OP apparently ignored it. It
really is disappointing when a poster with a legitimate question
doesn't pay any attention to the answers that people took the trouble
to send.

Hey, I got a nice "Also_Sprach_Zarathustra" .mid while I was there.

And because that particular .mid is all over the place, when
you Google on that string, you also get a bunch of MIDI websites.

Also_Sprach_Zarathustra .mid

Even if the MIDI content is likely a duplicate of MIDIworld.

Paul
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On 4/29/2026 2:07 AM, casagiannoni@optonline.net wrote:

Appreciate all the responses although with my limited knowledge can't
follow much.

Sure going to miss midiworld.

Anywhere else to get midi music ?

Did that website go down because of copyright??? Something like 3D
printer files.... :)
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/ v \ May the Force and farces be with you! Live long and prosper!!
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On Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:22:18 -0400, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid>
wrote:

On Tue, 4/28/2026 2:07 PM, casagiannoni@optonline.net wrote:

Appreciate all the responses although with my limited knowledge can't
follow much.

Sure going to miss midiworld.

Anywhere else to get midi music ?

The Archive may have some of them. This is one thing that saves
civilization from stupidity.

https://web.archive.org/web/20251109163109/https://www.midiworld.com/files/

Paul

Thanks Paul.

May seem dumb but I'm not familiar with the archive.

What's 20251109163109 etc. ?

Any simple / easy / short explanation ?
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casagiannoni wrote:

May seem dumb but I'm not familiar with the archive.
What's 20251109163109 etc. ?

YYYYMMDDHHMMSS

but you don't have to enter it yourself, there's a picker.

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On Wed, 4/29/2026 2:44 PM, Andy Burns wrote:

casagiannoni wrote:

May seem dumb but I'm not familiar with the archive.
What's 20251109163109 etc. ?

-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a YYYYMMDDHHMMSS

but you don't have to enter it yourself, there's a picker.

https://web.archive.org/web/20251109163109/https://www.midiworld.com/files/

Change it like this, and you will get to see the picker.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.midiworld.com/files/

The numeric field is a specific date code, of the web site capture.

Replacing the date field with a wildcard "*" causes all the captures
done, to be listed for you in the picker. Once you have selected
a particular date and hour, the field changes back to the numeric identifier.

*******

Many captures of the site were done. I selected a date code
which I suspected would be safe for consumption.

Using the picker, you can select any date code. The dots are
colored. You might see blue and green dots. One color is a failed
capture. The other color is a success capture. The dots (a dot
is a day-selection), the menu can show multiple "hours"
of capture, and you can select a specific hour out of the list
of hours.

Captures can be quite infrequent, like once every two years.
Or, when a company makes a deal with archive.org, there can
be a recording of the site every day. Since the machine uses
de-duplication, if the checksum of the file has not changed
in 20 years, there would be only one real copy of the file
on archive.org , but it would be available/listed via the picker,
on just about any colored dot you selected. That's how
archive.org does not run out of space. It checks whether the
files are modified, and tries to avoid making duplicates.
The "dots" then, are practically speaking, Incremental Backups.

I think they had around 5500 disk drives, some years ago, but
the site is much larger than that now.

Paul
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Paul,

( dumb of me not to figure out the time designation )

but you don't have to enter it yourself, there's a picker.

https://web.archive.org/web/20251109163109/https://www.midiworld.com/files/

Change it like this, and you will get to see the picker.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.midiworld.com/files/

( snip)

Don"t know what a picker is

Your references don't seem to go anywhere I can follow

Can't seem to get the picker to work

( big snip )

Thanks again for help and any further easy coments welcome

Steve
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casagiannoni wrote:

Paul wrote:

Change it like this, and you will get to see the picker.
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.midiworld.com/files/

Don"t know what a picker is

You can pick the year, date and time graphically, to see a snapshot at
that time.

Assuming the midi collection grew over time (with few or no files ever removed) just use the last snapshot before it got killed ...

<https://web.archive.org/web/20260306223313/https://www.midiworld.com/files/>


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On Fri, 5/1/2026 2:56 PM, Andy Burns wrote:

casagiannoni wrote:

Paul wrote:

Change it like this, and you will get to see the picker.
-a-a https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.midiworld.com/files/

Don"t know what a picker is

You can pick the year, date and time graphically, to see a snapshot at that time.

Assuming the midi collection grew over time (with few or no files ever removed) just use the last snapshot before it got killed ...

<https://web.archive.org/web/20260306223313/https://www.midiworld.com/files/>

We can start with this, and take a picture of it.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.midiworld.com/files/

This is a picture of my browser.

[Picture] archive-org-date-picker-demo.png

https://postimg.cc/Mft8yzT3

After you have picked the hour, it looks like this URL.
The date field has the information, as to which date
the info was collected on.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260306223313/https://www.midiworld.com/files/

Paul

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Paul,

We can start with this, and take a picture of it.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.midiworld.com/files/

This only yields something called WayBack Machine showing some year by
year graphics like line.

Don't know what to do next.

Nothing seems to work.

Further guidance etc. ?

Thanks,
Steve
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On 01/05/2026 23:54, casagiannoni@optonline.net wrote:

Paul,

We can start with this, and take a picture of it.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.midiworld.com/files/

This only yields something called WayBack Machine showing some year by
year graphics like line.

Don't know what to do next.

Nothing seems to work.

Further guidance etc. ?

Thanks,
Steve

FFS just click on one of the original links suggested.
I doesn't matter what date you use, it's been abandons and untouched
since about 2007 so any date will do.

It was fine at the beginning of 2025 so try:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250101000000/https://www.midiworld.com/
--
Brian Gregory (in England).
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On 29/04/2026 14:03, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

On 4/29/2026 2:07 AM, casagiannoni@optonline.net wrote:

Appreciate all the responses although with my limited knowledge can't
follow much.

Sure going to miss midiworld.

Anywhere else to get midi music ?

Did that website go down because of copyright??? Something like 3D
printer files.... :)

Most likely it just fell apart.
It's been abandoned for nearly 20 years.
--
Brian Gregory (in England).
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casagiannoni wrote:

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.midiworld.com/files/

This only yields something called WayBack Machine showing some year by
year graphics like line.

Don't know what to do next.

Nothing seems to work.

Further guidance etc. ?

I'm sorry, if you can't work our how to use wayback's archive of
midiworld, how did you ever manage to use midiworld itself?
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On Fri, 5/1/2026 6:54 PM, casagiannoni@optonline.net wrote:

Paul,

We can start with this, and take a picture of it.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.midiworld.com/files/

This only yields something called WayBack Machine showing some year by
year graphics like line.

Don't know what to do next.

Nothing seems to work.

Further guidance etc. ?

Thanks,
Steve

Try some Chicago. Their compositions are relatively easy to convert to MID. (Some of the other content on Midiworld is just awful.)

https://web.archive.org/web/20251115095040/https://www.midiworld.com/files/170/

Does Anybody Really Know [what time it is] -- Download Link

https://web.archive.org/web/20251115095040/https://www.midiworld.com/download/304

Name: Chicago_-_Does_Anybody_Really_Know.mid
Size: 34327 bytes (33 KiB)

You need a modern browser for everything to work OK.
We can't tell what you can see or cannot see on your screen.

I thought maybe the Roland GS Soundbank would sound better, but
there isn't that much difference between listening to these on Win7
versus Win11.

Paul


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On Sat, 2 May 2026 08:28:47 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:

casagiannoni wrote:

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.midiworld.com/files/

This only yields something called WayBack Machine showing some year by
year graphics like line.

Don't know what to do next.

Nothing seems to work.

Further guidance etc. ?

I'm sorry, if you can't work our how to use wayback's archive of
midiworld, how did you ever manage to use midiworld itself?

Dude, Wayback Machine is much less accesibility friendly than midiworld and most non JS driven HTML-only sites.
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( snip )

Try some Chicago. Their compositions are relatively easy to convert to MID. >(Some of the other content on Midiworld is just awful.)

https://web.archive.org/web/20251115095040/https://www.midiworld.com/files/170/

Does Anybody Really Know [what time it is] -- Download Link

https://web.archive.org/web/20251115095040/https://www.midiworld.com/download/304

Name: Chicago_-_Does_Anybody_Really_Know.mid
Size: 34327 bytes (33 KiB)

You need a modern browser for everything to work OK.
We can't tell what you can see or cannot see on your screen.

I thought maybe the Roland GS Soundbank would sound better, but
there isn't that much difference between listening to these on Win7
versus Win11.

Paul

Thanks for all the info, although with my very limited knowlerge I may
not be able to do justice to it ...

Really appreciate your effort.

Steve
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On Sat, 2 May 2026 04:02:33 -0400
Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote:

On Fri, 5/1/2026 6:54 PM, casagiannoni@optonline.net wrote:

Paul,

We can start with this, and take a picture of it.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.midiworld.com/files/

This only yields something called WayBack Machine showing some year by
year graphics like line.

Don't know what to do next.

Nothing seems to work.

Further guidance etc. ?

Thanks,
Steve

Try some Chicago. Their compositions are relatively easy to convert to MID. (Some of the other content on Midiworld is just awful.)

https://web.archive.org/web/20251115095040/https://www.midiworld.com/files/170/

Does Anybody Really Know [what time it is] -- Download Link

https://web.archive.org/web/20251115095040/https://www.midiworld.com/download/304

Name: Chicago_-_Does_Anybody_Really_Know.mid
Size: 34327 bytes (33 KiB)

You need a modern browser for everything to work OK.
We can't tell what you can see or cannot see on your screen.

Feh, mine's olde but Let's Go!

https://web.archive.org/web/20240916085319/https://www.midiworld.com/download/2116

I thought maybe the Roland GS Soundbank would sound better, but
there isn't that much difference between listening to these on Win7
versus Win11.

Paul

--
Bah, and indeed Humbug.
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