chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 14 days agoWhat software does not exist but you wish it did?message-squaremessage-square235linkfedilinkarrow-up1137arrow-down12file-text
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minus-squaremicgerne@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·14 days agoIt exists, but every bit of software I’ve tried has incredibly poor performance on anything except the absolute cleanest typset printed pieces.
minus-squareLumpyPancakes@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·14 days agoI wonder if an AI can do that? It’s obsoleted LeafSnap.
minus-squaremicgerne@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·13 days agojust tried with the free version of claude. It works a lot better than anything else I’ve tried but it’s not perfect, averaging ~2 mistakes per 10 bars for a relatively simple score.
minus-squareLumpyPancakes@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·13 days agoSeems strange that it’s so hard to get right. I guess it’s a bit like reading handwriting - subtle tiny differences? Does it give you a midi file from a scanned musical piece?
minus-squareEphera@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·13 days agoWikipedia has a section on how it works and at least to some degree also why it’s hard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_music_recognition#Approaches_to_OMR
minus-squaremicgerne@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·13 days agoIt outputs ABC notation, not midi. MIDI isn’t really the right format for sheet music.
It exists, but every bit of software I’ve tried has incredibly poor performance on anything except the absolute cleanest typset printed pieces.
I wonder if an AI can do that? It’s obsoleted LeafSnap.
just tried with the free version of claude. It works a lot better than anything else I’ve tried but it’s not perfect, averaging ~2 mistakes per 10 bars for a relatively simple score.
Seems strange that it’s so hard to get right. I guess it’s a bit like reading handwriting - subtle tiny differences?
Does it give you a midi file from a scanned musical piece?
Wikipedia has a section on how it works and at least to some degree also why it’s hard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_music_recognition#Approaches_to_OMR
It outputs ABC notation, not midi. MIDI isn’t really the right format for sheet music.