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Syllable splitting and segment merging can produce MidiSegments whose end is
equal to or earlier than their start. create_midi_instrument() passed those
straight to pretty_midi.Note, which raises for a negative length:
ValueError: Note end time must be greater than start time
Since the MIDI is written after the UltraStar file, the whole run aborted with
a finished .txt, no .mid and exit code 1.
Skip such segments and warn instead of dying; their lyric event is still
emitted by __create_midi(). A warning is also printed where the degenerate
segment enters the pipeline, so the root cause is visible in the log.
Reproduced on a real song (whisper small): the segment that crashed the writer
was word='~' start=155.2537142857143 end=153.776.
Adds the first unit tests for modules/Midi/midi_creator.py.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe MIDI creator now skips segments whose end time is not after their start time. It warns when degenerate transcript timings are created. New tests cover valid, zero-length, negative-length, and all-degenerate inputs. ChangesMIDI segment handling
Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Some negative-duration inputs can still abort MIDI generation before the new filtering logic runs, potentially leaving users without a .mid file. This should be fixed before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@src/modules/Midi/midi_creator.py`:
- Around line 145-147: Update the degenerate-segment handling in the MIDI
segment creation method to immediately return a MidiSegment when end_time is
less than start_time, before pitch extraction. Preserve start_time, end_time,
and word, and provide a placeholder note so create_midi_instrument() skips note
conversion while __create_midi() can still emit the lyric event; retain the
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| print(f"{ULTRASINGER_HEAD} WARNING: degenerate transcript segment word={word!r} " | ||
| f"start={start_time} end={end_time}") |
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Return before pitch extraction for negative-duration segments.
For end_time < start_time with different nearest indexes, pitched_data.frequencies[start:end] is empty. most_frequent(notes)[0][0] then raises IndexError. The later guard in create_midi_instrument() cannot run, so this path still aborts MIDI generation.
Return a MidiSegment immediately after this check. Preserve start_time, end_time, and word so __create_midi() can emit the lyric event. Use a placeholder note because create_midi_instrument() skips the segment before note conversion.
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if end_time <= start_time:
print(f"{ULTRASINGER_HEAD} WARNING: degenerate transcript segment word={word!r} "
f"start={start_time} end={end_time}")
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| if end_time <= start_time: | |
| print(f"{ULTRASINGER_HEAD} WARNING: degenerate transcript segment word={word!r} " | |
| f"start={start_time} end={end_time}") | |
| if end_time <= start_time: | |
| print(f"{ULTRASINGER_HEAD} WARNING: degenerate transcript segment word={word!r} " | |
| f"start={start_time} end={end_time}") | |
| return MidiSegment("", start_time, end_time, word) |
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In `@src/modules/Midi/midi_creator.py` around lines 145 - 147, Update the
degenerate-segment handling in the MIDI segment creation method to immediately
return a MidiSegment when end_time is less than start_time, before pitch
extraction. Preserve start_time, end_time, and word, and provide a placeholder
note so create_midi_instrument() skips note conversion while __create_midi() can
still emit the lyric event; retain the existing handling for equal timestamps.
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| for i, midi_segment in enumerate(midi_segments): | ||
| # Syllable splitting and segment merging can produce segments whose end is equal to |
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| start = find_nearest_index(pitched_data.times, start_time) | ||
| end = find_nearest_index(pitched_data.times, end_time) | ||
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| # Surface degenerate segments early - they are the root cause of the guard in |
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| # no-op; the same root cause also yields invalid `duration 0` UltraStar lines. | ||
| midi_segments = [ | ||
| MidiSegment(note="C4", start=1.0, end=2.0, word="a"), | ||
| MidiSegment(note="C4", start=3.0, end=3.0, word="b"), |
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Real solution for all (.txt, .mid .whatever) would be that this is never in the MidiSegment in the first palace. But its good to keep this in the test
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| instrument = create_midi_instrument(midi_segments) | ||
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| # Assert: the degenerate note is dropped, the valid one survives |
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remove ai slop comment. When we fix the degeneration in the right place, this comment would lie here.
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| def test_skips_negative_length_segment(self): | ||
| # Arrange: end < start (seen in real runs as word='~' start=155.25 end=153.78) |
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Remove this entire ai slop description.
This description will lie in the future when we fix this issue on the right place and when this test class will be expanded.
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@7MS8 nicely found with the start>end issue. But leave it as it is, we can make an other PR if you want |
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Problem
Some songs crash at the very end of a run, in the MIDI writer:
Because the MIDI is written after the UltraStar file, such a run ends with a
finished
.txt, no.mid, and exit code 1.Cause
split_syllables_into_segments()/merge_syllable_segments()can produceMidiSegments whoseend <= start. The whisper output itself is clean — I checkedthe cached transcription of the song below: 232 segments, none of them degenerate —
so the degenerate segments are produced by UltraSinger's own splitting/merging.
merge_syllable_segments()doesnew_midi_notes[-1].end = data.endwithout checkingthat
data.endactually lies after the merged segment's start.Reproduction
Georg Danzer – "Stau auf da Tangenten",
https://youtu.be/stHZMyCb778,whisper
smallon CPU. The segment that reached the writer:Change
src/modules/Midi/midi_creator.py:create_midi_instrument()skips segments withend <= startand warns about theminstead of letting
pretty_midi.Noteabort the run. The lyric event is stillemitted by
__create_midi(), so nothing is lost from the lyric track.create_midi_note_from_pitched_data()warns when a degenerate segment enters thepipeline, so the root cause is visible in the log rather than only the symptom.
Note on
<=vs<Measured with pretty_midi 0.2.11:
The crash is only triggered by
end < start, even though the exception text asks forgreater than. The guard uses
<=deliberately: a zero-length note carries noinformation, and the same root cause also produces invalid
duration <= 0lines inthe UltraStar output. If you prefer the strictly minimal change,
<is aone-character edit — on the song above both behave identically.
Related, not fixed here
ultrastar_writer.pywrites non-positive durations for the same degenerate segments(e.g.
: 3769 -39 26 ~), which is not representable in the UltraStar format. That is aseparate question about the semantics of the segmentation step, so it is deliberately
not touched in this PR.
Tests
pytest/modules/Midi/test_midi_creator.py— the first unit tests for this module.Three of the four fail without the fix (verified by reverting the patch).
Full suite with the fix: 29 passed, 3 skipped (
uv run pytest pytest/).Summary by CodeRabbit
Bug Fixes
Tests