Talk:MusicXML
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[edit] Initial expansion
I expanded the article so it's longer than a single sentence, but I still think it looks ugly. Improvements will be welcomed. --Ardonik 00:49, 2004 Aug 8 (UTC)
I could be wrong, but I thought it was called MusicML? ...or is that something else? --yoshi 06:50, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
- MusicXML and MusicML are different XML-based markup languages. The latter was developed in South Africa, and is not (to my mind) as good a solution, nor as widely supported. Elphion (talk) 16:21, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
I truly hate stupidly verbose XML. human-readable my ass! Why should all parsers be XML parsers? Why not more sensible and appropriate domain-specific languages? Should we rewrite C++ so that it is now a XML-application and ready to receive the full XSLT treatment? sheesh... GUIDO music notation is much more well-suited for the purposes of computer presentable musical notation... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.186.174.130 (talk) 16:14, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
Full ack, I see it the same way. Thus I added a reference to GUIDO under "see also". Faerwynn 16:43, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
There are many music notation file formats, and a reference to GUIDO would be an appropriate addition to that Wikipedia page. But unlike NIFF, GUIDO is not a music notation interchange format. Thus the reference seems inappropriate here, regardless of the relative merits of XML and other language approaches. Mdgood 06:41, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Freedom and alternatives
1) How free ist this format really? Is it allowed to develop enhanced versions/schemes based upon MusicXML? Is it "safe" to use this format within free software? 2) Are there better alternatives as it comes to sound generation rather to score notation? Imagine a music tracker (like LMMS using its own XML) that focusses on easy generation of effectful sound & music (including morphing, phasing, fading etc.) in a simple XML notation? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.60.33.71 (talk) 19:01, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
If you follow the license link, you will see that the license allows enhanced versions and is compatible with free software. If you follow the software list link, you will see that there are many free and open source software projects using the MusicXML format. MusicXML is not an audio format; I do not know if there are alternatives that work the same for audio programs as MusicXML does for score programs. Note that Cubase (a similar type of program to LMMS) supports MusicXML as part of its score editor feature. Mdgood (talk) 05:42, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Commercial support for MusicXML
It should be mentioned along with the opening statements that although Sibelius and Finale support MusicXML export there is as yet (February 2008) no commercial notation product that will IMPORT MusicXML files.--207.165.188.21 (talk) 19:44, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
