Hello,
On 2025-09-11 12:11, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
[dropping all lists except for debian-multimedia from CC]
Am 2025-09-10 18:35, schrieb Lag Lagendary:
I am not a professional programmer, but I am ready to be the initiator
and tester of this project. I believe that the Debian community has
all the necessary tools and talents.
Everyone will find something for themselves: The project offers tasks
for everyone:
For musicians - a convenient tool for creativity.
For developers - interesting automation tasks.
For everyone - an opportunity to contribute to the common cause and
make music accessible.
Let's make a "hammer" that can make anything out of nails.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts!
However, I'm afraid this is not how things are going to work. You cannot
just drop an idea - although a very laudable one otherwise - to a lot of
people and them ask them to pick it up and "just do".
You are right, we already have all the necessary tools in Debian. But we
don't have the necessary high-level project management for a task like
the one you propose. And, honestly, you are not providing one either.
Also, I don't see Debian as a Linux distribution in a role to manage a
project like this which is pretty far from its core competence, i.e. to
serve as a distribution for free software.
I agree with Fabian that this is not the best place to pitch ideas for
new music software, even such nice as yours.
What I think you are proposing is a toolbox of converters between music
formats, something similar to what netpbm is for image formats. Since
command line environment is very convenient for such modular use, I
would suggest first identifying the converters at hand and then the
missing ones. For example, MuseScore converts between MIDI and MusicXML.
LilyPond renders music engraving from MIDI and MusicXML. Then there are
sheet OCR tools like Oemer. Developing these from scratch would be a
huge feat.
Best wishes,
Andrius
