MaxPages.com

NOTE! This is a stub intended to start work on a new category/series of MIDIs. Please edit/reformat as necessary - thanks! - Mr. X

MaxPages was a web hosting platform where anyone could make a website. It was derided for being slow, littered with ads, and having gimmicks that didn't change the navigation and rendering problems.

One feature was the Jukebox, where users could load a MIDI file from a list and play it; the exact source of each file isn't always clear, and some are brief [15 seconds] while others are several minutes long. This feature was buggy, too, but it was possible to use Firefox to View Page Info and find the URLs of MIDIs loaded, then use the list to download what was still available.

Unfortunately, MaxPages went down around 2010-2011, and not many of the MIDIs were saved. Some are in MrXnews2's collection, and others are in the Internet Archive. See the archived Jukebox:  http://web.archive.org/web/20100215043424/http://maxpages.com/jukebox.html

The remaining MIDIs are at http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://maxpages.com/music/* Navigating them is a bit tedious. First, make sure the list is sorted from oldest to newest [the arrow next to From should point up]. Type "mid" in the Filter box [no period necessary] and the earliest MIDI saves should be from June 2000. Captures up to September 2006 are valid [energyflow.mid is the most recent one]. Links captured from 2011 onward redirect to the "homepage" of the new MaxPages site [which was a list of spam links]. Clicking on a file name takes you to a list of snapshots for that MIDI's URL, and pre-2011 captures should prompt you to download the MIDI file.

Some examples of remaining files: http://web.archive.org/web/20000619145259/http://maxpages.com:80/music/jazzy/groove1.mid http://web.archive.org/web/20001017151945/http://www.maxpages.com:80/music/jazzy/cool3.mid

For your reference - I uploaded my saved MIDIs [from 2007ish] to a Google Drive folder. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1aWm1NxpiD3c3HbdOr_PoWNkfY9yWcGsR?usp=sharing Note that I retitled some of them when I downloaded them at first!

A few tracks appear to have been created in Sound Canvas, with one Sequence A #2 [swing/horn1 - swing jazz featuring brass] containing the string "Joe Gershen / Eat-At-Joe's Music". The melody is identical to http://web.archive.org/web/20001018172928/http://www.maxpages.com:80/music/swing/piano1.mid but with a different melody, and no attribution other than Sound Canvas.

Another, capriccio.mid, contains the header "Mozart: Capriccio seqeunced by gc dorman ©1997 all rights reserved".

The categories were blues carib classical funky jazzy movie rock swing theme world

The full MIDI list from the page source: "blues/allblues", "blues/amiblue", "blues/auldfats", "blues/bluemon", "blues/cbrown", "blues/da_blues", "blues/deadmanblues", "blues/jk_trouble", "blues/justblue", "blues/shame", "blues/slblues", "carib/isle1", "carib/isle10", "carib/isle2", "carib/isle3", "carib/isle4", "carib/isle5", "carib/isle6", "carib/isle7", "carib/isle8", "carib/isle9", "classical/1stgymn", "classical/america", "classical/auld", "classical/beautdream1", "classical/brahms", "classical/brahms1", "classical/bumble", "classical/capriccio", "classical/chwapo3", "classical/fifthsym", "classical/fugue", "classical/funeralm", "classical/furelise", "classical/humor", "classical/minute", "classical/moonligh", "classical/op28n01", "classical/op28n23", "classical/otannenb", "classical/pachabelcanon", "classical/preludenfugue", "classical/prokofiev", "classical/schubert", "classical/weber", "funky/bass&drums1", "funky/bass&drums2", "funky/bass&drums3", "funky/bass&drums4", "funky/guitar1", "funky/guitar2", "funky/guitar3", "funky/thing1", "funky/thing2", "funky/thing3", "funky/thing4", "jazzy/afrocuban1", "jazzy/cool1", "jazzy/cool2", "jazzy/cool3", "jazzy/cool4", "jazzy/freemiles1", "jazzy/freemiles2", "jazzy/freemiles3", "jazzy/freemiles4", "jazzy/groove2", "jazzy/groove3", "jazzy/mysterioso1", "jazzy/mysterioso2", "jazzy/mysterioso3", "jazzy/mysterioso4", "jazzy/traffic1", "jazzy/traffic2", "jazzy/vamp1", "jazzy/vamp2", "jazzy/vamp3", "movie/angst1", "movie/angst2", "movie/angst3", "movie/chase1", "movie/chase2", "movie/chase3", "movie/fanfare1", "movie/fanfare2", "movie/hangemhigh", "movie/mystery1", "movie/mystery2", "movie/mystery3", "movie/mystery4", "movie/mystery5", "movie/psychoo", "movie/suspense1", "movie/suspense2", "movie/suspense3", "movie/suspense4", "movie/suspense5", "movie/symphonic1", "movie/symphonic2", "movie/symphonic3", "rock/boogie3", "rock/boogie4", "rock/gabriel", "rock/gravy1", "rock/gravy2", "rock/gravy3", "rock/gravy4", "rock/organic1", "rock/organic2", "rock/punk1", "rock/slave1", "rock/slave2", "rock/steely1", "rock/zepplin1", "rock/zepplin2", "rock/zombie1", "rock/zombie2", "rock/zombie3", "rock/zombie4", "rock/zombie5", "swing/horn1", "swing/keyboard", "swing/keyboard2", "swing/organ2", "swing/piano1", "swing/thing1", "swing/thing2", "swing/thing3", "theme/awake1", "theme/awake2", "theme/awake3", "theme/fortapache1", "theme/fortapache2", "theme/homecoming1", "theme/homecoming2", "theme/homecoming3", "theme/japanaise1", "theme/japanaise2", "theme/majestic1", "theme/majestic2", "theme/mystery1", "theme/mystery2", "theme/mystery3", "theme/mystery4", "theme/mystery5", "theme/piano1", "theme/piano2", "theme/piano3", "theme/piano4", "theme/somebodyloveme", "theme/stringcheese1", "theme/stringcheese2", "theme/stringcheese3", "theme/stringcheese4", "theme/stringcheese5", "theme/suspense1", "theme/suspense2", "theme/suspense3", "theme/suspense4", "theme/suspense5", "theme/symphonia1", "theme/symphonia2", "theme/symphonia3", "theme/talkshow1", "world/akatombo", "world/banshee", "world/earlyam", "world/energyflow", "world/fairyq", "world/firstlove", "world/gogo", "world/hodown", "world/indian", "world/motown", "world/newmarkt", "world/polka", "world/sligo", "world/tabinototyude", "world/teshnyanni", "world/tetsudouin", "world/unquiet", "world/zucchini"