Re: lilypond -> midi -> ogg vorbis

[Mats Bengtsson]

As far as I know, the ambition of the LilyPond MIDI output has never
been to produce an output of high listening quality, rather it's
mainly intended to help proofreading a score. Then, I don't really see
the point of including this conversion into LilyPond. If you want to
use LilyPond as a sequencer, it feels much more relevant to start by
improving the MIDI generation.

   /Mats

address@hidden wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The last few months saw the creation of the freepats sound patterns package and 
> updates to timidity. Creating an Ogg vorbis file from midi is now as simple as:
>
> $ timidity -Ov lilypondgenerated.midi
>
> It would be trivial to add Ogg vorbis output to lilypond and/or lilypond-book.
>
> Does that fit into the Lilypond philosophy? I don't know, but I see a few
> advantages of integrating Ogg vorbis output support, especially with
> lilypond-book:
>
> * eliminates a conversion step for Lilypond users
> * easier to burn to CD, use on portable player (this would help me as a music
> teacher)
> * helps spread the free Ogg vorbis audio compression format
> * ...
>
> This would of course add timidity and/or freepats dependencies...
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Mark
>
>
>
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