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Title: ABC
Post by: Pete Dunk on May 19, 2010, 12:38:00 AM
I've not had time to research this fully yet but there's been a new development using Java that may prove interesting.

http://abcnotation.com/blog/2010/05/18/new-abc-javascript-renderer/ (http://abcnotation.com/blog/2010/05/18/new-abc-javascript-renderer/)

Automatic conversion of abc files within posts to scripted notation and playable midis without resorting to online converters and such might be a boon. Theo?
Title: Re: ABC
Post by: Theo on May 19, 2010, 10:23:46 AM
Looks very useful.

A side effect is that any discussion containing many abcs would become much longer and require more scrolling.  Maybe needs a hide/display button??
Title: Re: ABC
Post by: Pete Dunk on May 29, 2010, 02:20:40 PM
Maybe needs a hide/display button??

Is this the 'spoiler' used on other simple machine forums? Do I take it that posting the abc within code tags to keep the post window short would prevent the Java app from converting it? Also, would it mean that we can't actually display the abc text for people to copy and paste into their own collections?
Title: Re: ABC
Post by: Chris Ryall on May 30, 2010, 07:15:57 AM
The ABC appears as simple text on Chris Walshaw's ABC site - and can be copied. The app declined to accept Real Alternative as an interpreter for the midi, it made me install Quicktime. Bur no great issue there.

 Chris's demo page : http://abcnotation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=41

The add on looks absolutely super and I am impressed by the sheer cleverness of this.

As wishlist:  it'd be nice to have some control of speed of playback. The same ABC into http://www.folkinfo.org/songs/abcconvert.php is a nice steady space whereas Quicktime is frankly 'flat out' (perhaps I might have anticipated this)!

But then I'll be wanting key transpose too! I appreciate I can copy/paste the ABC into my own local interpreter for this.  I do hope others may comment. Any feed back is probably best collated/funnelled via the web site admons involved.   

Add it here? My vote would be 'yes'  Chris
Title: Re: ABC
Post by: Steve_freereeder on May 30, 2010, 08:01:19 AM
As wishlist:  it'd be nice to have some control of speed of playback. The same ABC into http://www.folkinfo.org/songs/abcconvert.php is a nice steady space whereas Quicktime is frankly 'flat out' (perhaps I might have anticipated this)!
I guess it depends on whether the ABC code has a Q: field in the header, e.g.
Q:1/4=96 will force a crotchet beat of 96 beats per minute.
The Q: field is not mandatory in ABC code. When it is absent the playback tempo is governed (I think) by the default settings of particular playback software you are using.
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