 This made MIDI file arrangements an attractive way to share music, before the advent of broadband internet access and multi-gigabyte hard drives.Licensed MIDI files on floppy disks were commonly available in stores in Europe and Japan during the 1990s.The major drawback to this is the wide variation in quality of users' audio cards, and in the actual audio contained as samples or synthesized sound in the card that the MIDI data only refers to symbolically.