# Install midicsv with Homebrew, apt, Nix, scoop

Convert MIDI audio files to human-readable CSV format. Version 1.1 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install midicsv.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:midicsv
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install midicsv
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install midicsv
```

  Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: midicsv from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#midicsv
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/mi/midicsv/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Windows

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install extras/midicsv
```

  Evidence: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/midicsv.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Extras/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:midicsv
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.1
- **Source summary:** Convert MIDI audio files to human-readable CSV format
- **Homepage:** <https://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/midicsv/>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- csvmidi (alias)
- midicsv (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.1
## Project history and usage

MIDICSV is John Walker's Fourmilab pair of command-line tools for translating Standard MIDI files to a textual CSV representation and back. The Fourmilab manual page dates the work to February 2004, with a January 2008 revision, and places the software in the public domain.

### How it is used

The package is aimed at programmers and musicians who want to manipulate MIDI with ordinary text tools instead of a sequencer or a MIDI-specific library. The midicsv program decodes a MIDI file into CSV while preserving the information needed to reconstruct an equivalent MIDI file; csvmidi performs the reverse conversion. Fourmilab's examples show pipelines that transpose notes, duplicate events for a chorus effect, extract channels, or generate simple MIDI material from scripts. In package-manager form, the package is mostly a small Unix utility pair for batch MIDI editing, testing, data extraction, and scriptable music transformations.

### Sources

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/midicsv>
- <https://manpages.debian.org/trixie/midicsv/midicsv.1.en.html>
- <https://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/midicsv/>


## Security Notes

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger risk:** blue / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Debian apt - midicsv - 1.1+dfsg.1-1+b2: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: midicsv from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | translate MIDI file to CSV | http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/midicsv/
- Nix - midicsv: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/mi/midicsv/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - midicsv - 1.1+dfsg.1-1build1: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: midicsv from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | translate MIDI file to CSV | http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/midicsv/
- Scoop - extras/midicsv: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/midicsv.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Extras/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/midicsv.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/midicsv.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph