Unknown Meta MIDI Event

[flagstone78]

In my file i have some weird midi events. How do i get the parser to just skip the incorrect midi events?

My midi editor program can read the file just fine so i know that it can still be read.

[tdhsmith]

Well for a temporary solution, you'll want to get rid of the warning in fileio.py on line 64 (https://github.com/vishnubob/python-midi/blob/master/src/fileio.py#L64) and fudge the class handling a bit so that it accepts a generic event placeholder, lines 64-65 becoming:

if cmd not in EventRegistry.MetaEvents:
  #raise Warning, "Unknown Meta MIDI Event: " + `cmd`
  cls = MetaEvent
else:
  cls = EventRegistry.MetaEvents[cmd]

I have no idea what sorts of things this might tangle up (I suspect there must be a few), but I did manage to parse and save a MIDI file with unknown meta-events.

A full solution would probably involve creating actual classes for different kinds of unknown events and making sure they can pass through everything unscathed, but I'm too much of a novice at python class handling and methods to plunk it out immediately.