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Re: MusicXML

#3
MusicXML is old hat. All the cool kids are using MusicJSON now.

EDIT: I'd like to clarify that I posted this comment, as a joke, before the below comment went on to clarify that there was, in fact, a JSON-based rewrite of the music standard in progress:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38460827

Never change, tech world!

Re: MusicXML

#4
Seems like MusicXML is a great format for ML applications. You need to start somewhere and machine-readable code is important.

Re: MusicXML

#5

MusicXML is old hat. All the cool kids are using MusicJSON now. EDIT: I'd like to clarify that I posted this comment, as a joke , before the below comment went on to clarify that there was, in fact, a JSON-based rewrite of the music standard in progress: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38460827 Never change, tech world!

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Re: MusicXML

#6
post #4

Seems like MusicXML is a great format for ML applications. You need to start somewhere and machine-readable code is important.

MusicXML seems to be more for notation and sheet music typesetting rather than algorithmic operations on the notes themselves. Sure you could train a model on it but you'd be better off doing it on the specific domain and classically translating up to the XML format.

Re: MusicXML

#7
I have not had much success using MusicXML to switch between different notation programs. Trying to read a score exported from Musescore as MusicXML in Sibelius or vice versa feels worse than switching between Microsoft Office and other ostensibly compatible formats.

Does anyone have any success stories?

Re: MusicXML

#8
I work for Sibelius so I'm heavily involved in this world. MusicXML is a great standard and offered a solid basis for data interchange between music notation programs. But now there's a new group working to build a successor standard, MNX: https://w3c.github.io/mnx/docs/

It was originally going to be in XML but they recently switched to JSON, which is a good move, I think. I can't wait for it to be adopted as it will give so much more richness to the data set.

Re: MusicXML

#9

MusicXML is old hat. All the cool kids are using MusicJSON now. EDIT: I'd like to clarify that I posted this comment, as a joke , before the below comment went on to clarify that there was, in fact, a JSON-based rewrite of the music standard in progress: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38460827 Never change, tech world!

I hear you don't want to go (Cloud)Native else you'd be using MusicYAML now.

Re: MusicXML

#10
post #8

I work for Sibelius so I'm heavily involved in this world. MusicXML is a great standard and offered a solid basis for data interchange between music notation programs. But now there's a new group working to build a successor standard, MNX: https://w3c.github.io/mnx/docs/ It was originally going to be in XML but they recently switched to JSON, which is a good move, I think. I can't wait for it to be adopted as it will…

Hopefully they will use JSON5 so comments can be included. The loss of comments when switching from XML to JSON was a disaster in other domains.
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