As far as I know, the ambition of the LilyPond MIDI output has never
been to produce an output of high listening quality, rather it's
mainly intended to help proofreading a score. Then, I don't really see
the point of including this conversion into LilyPond. If you want to
use LilyPond as a sequencer, it feels much more relevant to start by
improving the MIDI generation.

   /Mats

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,

The last few months saw the creation of the freepats sound patterns package and updates to timidity. Creating an Ogg vorbis file from midi is now as simple as:

$ timidity -Ov lilypondgenerated.midi

It would be trivial to add Ogg vorbis output to lilypond and/or lilypond-book.

Does that fit into the Lilypond philosophy? I don't know, but I see a few
advantages of integrating Ogg vorbis output support, especially with
lilypond-book:

* eliminates a conversion step for Lilypond users
* easier to burn to CD, use on portable player (this would help me as a music
teacher)
* helps spread the free Ogg vorbis audio compression format
* ...

This would of course add timidity and/or freepats dependencies...

Any thoughts?

Mark



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