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Digital Audio Workstation & MIDI => Digital Audio Workstations & MIDI Applications => Music Notation/Score Editors => Topic started by: OS923 on February 28, 2018, 02:19:11 AM

Title: MusicXML
Post by: OS923 on February 28, 2018, 02:19:11 AM

Is there a program for OS 9 that can import and export MusicXML?

Title: Re: MusicXML
Post by: GaryN on February 28, 2018, 01:22:55 PM

Considering the earliest version of MusicXML appeared around 2004-2005 and OS9 was discontinued in 2001…

it would seem very unlikely.

Title: Re: MusicXML
Post by: OS923 on March 02, 2018, 02:23:08 AM

Is there a program for OS 9 that can import and export another human readable file format for representing Western musical notation on OS 9?

Title: Re: MusicXML
Post by: OS923 on March 13, 2018, 04:13:01 AM

Then I would be the first one to do this, right?

Title: Re: MusicXML
Post by: MacTron on March 13, 2018, 09:31:11 AM

Quote from: OS923 on March 13, 2018, 04:13:01 AM

Then I would be the first one to do this, right?

Great!
 ;D

Title: Re: MusicXML
Post by: OS923 on March 16, 2018, 07:35:11 AM

I read on www.music-notation.info/en/software/Lime.html that Lime for OS 9 can read MusicXML.

http://www.cerlsoundgroup.org/cgi-bin/Lime/Macos9.html

I tried the Windows version and it works.

Title: Re: MusicXML
Post by: OS923 on March 16, 2018, 07:54:29 AM

Then I read on www.music-notation.info/en/software/BarFly.html that BarFly for OS 9 can read MusicXML.

I found this on archive.org. I'll try it when I'm home.

Title: Re: MusicXML
Post by: OS923 on March 16, 2018, 08:10:02 AM

Then I read on www.music-notation.info/en/software/Igor.html that Igor for OS 9 can read MusicXML.

I found this on archive.org. I'll try it when I'm home.

Title: Re: MusicXML
Post by: GaryN on March 16, 2018, 04:57:34 PM

Helluva find…congratulations!

Title: Re: MusicXML
Post by: OS923 on March 17, 2018, 02:25:55 AM

BarFly worked, but that's not Western music notation.

Igor Engraver worked, (I have a password,) but only with integers and it draws with jaggies.

Lime worked, but if you import what you've exported, then you don't get the original. Password needed, otherwise you have only a flute.

Title: Re: MusicXML
Post by: OS923 on March 19, 2018, 08:33:14 AM

I looked into several MusicXML libraries with too much clutter and too little readability.

I can read music by the way.

http://composers-classical-music.com/d/DuerinckPhilip.htm

Title: Re: MusicXML
Post by: OS923 on March 27, 2018, 06:43:59 AM

REALbasic 5.5.5 can read and validate MusicXML 3.1 files. I tried it and it works. The documentation says that it can even apply a stylesheet to an XML file, but I didn't try that. I copied more than 800 MusicXML files. They were all Unicode and MusicXML 1.0. Only a few had Unicode characters and they could easily be converted to MacRoman using the Text Encoding Converter.

The Carbon API has a minimal XML reading support, but no validation.