Re: musicxml2ly

[Martin Tarenskeen]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 09:44:32AM +0100, Hajo Dezelski wrote:

> So the only way I see in the moment is to enhance the midi-export so that we
> have a chance to use the music in another context.

Thats what I call a dead-end solution! The MIDI specification was 
defined in the 1980's and was not designed for the creation of printed 
music. It is true that the midi2ly utility needs some (or should I say 
much? ) improvement. And converting MIDI to printable scores can be 
useful sometimes. But it is the limitations of MIDI itself that make 
MIDI unsuitable for exchanging music scores between different platforms 
and applications.

Sure, MusicXML has it's limitations too, like clearly stated by some 
people in this thread. But it is MUCH better than MIDI and definetely 
better than nothing. And it has reasonably wide acceptance: Many 
companies and applications at least try to support it. 

So let's not drop MusicXML support, even we don't like the legal issues 
around it.

Comapare it to OGG vs. MP3. From the Open Source point of view it is 
recommended not to use MP3 but OGG. But in the real world everyone uses 
MP3. Everytime if I have installed a version of the "politically 
correct" Fedora, the first thing I do is add some third party 
repositories and install support for MP3 and video codecs.

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Martin Tarenskeen