Re: Error when dragging Finale Allegro 2007 MIDI export onto LilyPond 2.16.2-1

[Martin Tarenskeen]

On Thu, 29 Aug 2013, Zack Macomber wrote:

> I have several Finale Allegro 2007 compositions that I would like to see in
> LilyPond.  I can save my compositions as a MIDI file.  When I drag that MIDI
> file onto the LilyPond shortcut on my desktop, a file gets written to where
> the MIDI file is with this message in it:

You can not drag a midifile to lilypond. Use the midi2ly tool to convert a 
midifile to a *.ly file. After that you can process this file with 
Lilypond. But don't expect miracles. You probably have to do some editing 
to the *.ly file first to get a good result. Maybe lot's of editing...

Sometimes it's even easier/faster to re-write the score completely in 
Lilypond syntax from scratch. MIDI is not the best format for musical 
scores.

A better way would be to export as MusicXML and use musicxml2ly before 
using Lilypond.

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MT