2015-04-21 1:07 GMT+02:00 Kieren MacMillan <[email protected]>:
> > Seems to me it has been quite successful in its goals of making sheet > music easily available for free, all works in the public domain or under > creative commons licenses, in (user-editable, user-improvable) LilyPond > format, pdf, and midi — all with volunteer labor. Looks like the total is > over 1900 works now. > > Other than the “user-editable, user-improvable” issue, all of those things > are far better done by IMSLP. Put another way, looking at IMSLP (with > 310,000 scores) and Mutopia (with 1,900), the shine quickly comes off > Mutopia for anyone except the handful of hardcore DIY musicians who (e.g.,) > want to take a violin piece from Mutopia and make a guitar arrangement. > > You forgot the quality of sheets: a (really) digital PDF will always look better than a scanned PDF. And if it's too old or don't like anything you can change it and get what you want. This is the value of Mutopia and the reason why I strongly disagree on the idea of merging it into IMSLP. In the past discussion on this topic there were a couple of ideas on better integration between the two projects. > I think it would be far better — and probably result in better > visibility/marketing for Lilypond — if Mutopia were merged into IMSLP. > (There appears to have been a thought in this direction at some point, but > not any more; cf. > http://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:Community_Projects/Mutopia_score_archive). > Then, for important works, there would be the Lilypond source, side-by-side > with scans of existing editions. But it seems this was considered, and > rejected for exactly the reasons that Mutopia now flounders (cf. > http://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP_talk:Community_Projects/Mutopia_score_archive > ).
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