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Re: New Sibelius to LilyPond conversion suite
From: |
Michael Good |
Subject: |
Re: New Sibelius to LilyPond conversion suite |
Date: |
Thu, 4 Feb 2010 22:53:01 +0000 (UTC) |
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Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) |
Hi Martin and Kirill,
Martin, MusicXML is pervasive in the music preparation business, whether it is
preparation for print music, film, or TV. It is not yet used very widely as a
consumer format for sheet music, but this is starting to change. You can see
the list of sites offering MusicXML scores at:
http://www.recordare.com/xml/sites.html
The list of software supporting the MusicXML format - over 120 programs so
far - is available at:
http://www.recordare.com/xml/software.html
MusicXML itself is a free format, and as you can see is used widely in both
commercial and free software. We support developers in all areas. But to stay
in business, and keep developing the MusicXML format and its related software,
we have to charge for our plug-ins.
Kirill, I appreciate your position regarding free software, and your
frankness. One thing that I hope you will consider doing - once your current
Sibelius plug-in is completed - is to work on a converter from LilyPond to the
MusicXML format.
LilyPond may be free software, but it has more lock-in than nearly any current
commercial music notation product. Scores can only be imported into LilyPond
format. They can never be moved effectively from LilyPond to another notation
program.
MusicXML was invented to get rid of this type of proprietary format lock-in.
Most commercial products added MusicXML export years ago, either directly or
via plug-ins. It is unfortunate that LilyPond users cannot take advantage of
the same data freedom that Finale and Sibelius users can.
We hope in the future that LilyPond will be as supportive of the open MusicXML
format as most commercial software. If there is already a converter from
LilyPond to MusicXML that I have missed, please let me know. If my objections
are out of date, that would be excellent news!
Best regards,
Michael Good
Recordare LLC
- Lilypond to MusicXML (was: Re: New Sibelius to LilyPond conversion suite), (continued)
- Lilypond to MusicXML (was: Re: New Sibelius to LilyPond conversion suite), Martin Tarenskeen, 2010/02/06
- Re: Lilypond to MusicXML (was: Re: New Sibelius to LilyPond conversion suite), Graham Percival, 2010/02/06
- Re: Lilypond to MusicXML (was: Re: New Sibelius to LilyPond conversion suite), Reinhold Kainhofer, 2010/02/07
- Re: Lilypond to MusicXML (was: Re: New Sibelius to LilyPond conversion suite), Graham Percival, 2010/02/07
- Re: Lilypond to MusicXML (was: Re: New Sibelius to LilyPond conversion suite), Reinhold Kainhofer, 2010/02/07
- Re: Lilypond to MusicXML (was: Re: New Sibelius to LilyPond conversion suite), Martin Tarenskeen, 2010/02/08
- Re: Lilypond to MusicXML (was: Re: New Sibelius to LilyPond conversion suite), Graham Percival, 2010/02/08
- Re: Lilypond to MusicXML (was: Re: New Sibelius to LilyPond conversion suite), Martin Tarenskeen, 2010/02/08
- Re: Lilypond to MusicXML (was: Re: New Sibelius to LilyPond conversion suite), Jack Cooper, 2010/02/08
Re:New Sibelius to LilyPond conversion suite, Stefan Thomas, 2010/02/04
Re: New Sibelius to LilyPond conversion suite,
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