I wouldn't say I've been "seduced" :-P. I cannot vouch for anything they
have or produce. I was more or less thinking out loud since I have little
experience dealing with MusicXML files.
Best,
Abraham
On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 3:17 AM, Richard Shann-2 [via Lilypond] <
[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2015-11-08 at 21:48 -0700, Abraham Lee wrote:
> > It looks like they use MusicXML as their main data format then process
> > it into LilyPond syntax for engraving on their server.
>
> > Maybe we could work with them to leverage their converter if it works
> > well.
>
> This is highly unlikely, I think you have been seduced by the
> MusicXML-universal-format myth: it is very easy to create a MusicXML
> file from some music. And knowing exactly how you have created it, it is
> easy to read it back (and easy to create LilyPond for it). So Scorio can
> easily take input from the user store it using their version of MusicXML
> and retrieve it again without having the remotest chance of reading
> MusicXML generated by some other program.
>
> There are any number of ways you can create a "valid" MusicXML
> description of some music and it very unlikely that someone could create
> a MusicXML reader that will understand whatever choices you made and
> interpretation you gave without first seeing examples of what you
> generate. So Sibelius can read its own MusicXML (I presume) and so on
> for all the others. Only the people behind MusicXML (that's Finale I
> think) can expect their output to be read by others, because they are
> the de facto standard. They provide a set of examples which people use
> to test their reader - the pages of "documentation" look impressive but
> are (inevitably?) ambiguous.
>
> I notice that MEI talks happily about there being "many ways" you can
> describe the same music notation in its format. It seems to me that the
> ideal would be a way of describing a book containing music notation
> where there would be only one output file that correctly described it. I
> imagine it would need to be a highly constrained notion of what a book
> containing music notation is, to make that possible. And yet, at the
> other extreme, it seems clear that many people would wish to rescue all
> the notes that they had so painstakingly entered into some software for
> re-use in another program when the original gets dropped.
>
> Richard
>
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