import lilypond
Is there any way users have had much success importing from lilypond files?
It appears that
lilypond can export to a "music streams" format, would that help out here?
Also a lilypond to musicxml converter would work, but doesn't seem to yet exist.
Anybody have any tips out there?
Thanks!
-r
[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/msg28090.html (also mentions that you can use OCR on pdf's that lilypond generates, which might be a work around).
Comments
Lilypond import was removed from MuseScore since it was not working in the first place and second, there was no one to pick it up. Instead, we concentrated on improving MusicXML import which is currently the leading standard format for sheet music. The best way to go forward is to add MusicXML export to Lilypond. It would be simply very beneficial to the Lilypond project to have MusicXML export.
See
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=665
http://old.nabble.com/Converting-lilypond-to-music-xml-td19133785.html
http://old.nabble.com/MusicXML-Export-td22960864.html
http://old.nabble.com/MusicXML-backend-for-lilypond--td17957920.html
for followers, another current option is to convert to midi, then to muse.
In reply to midi by rogerdpack
Hi https://musescore.org/en/user/6893 how can I convert a lilypond file to midi?
In reply to Hi https://musescore.org/en… by niroshan1988
Please note3 that you responded to a more than 7 years old post
You can't directly, not anymore, lilypond export support had been removed from MuseScore 2.0, due to lack of a maintainer IIRC, lilypond import had been removed much earlier, see Thomas' answer above.
But I believe meanwhile you can use ly2xml, which is part of Lilypond, to convert LY files into (Music)XML files and import those.
In reply to Please not that you… by Jojo-Schmitz
Update after another 7 years:
github.com/uliska/ly2xml
"This repository was created as a stub for the possible development of a LilyPond-to-MusicXML converter/export. As there is urgent need for such a thing but no actual development, this repository should serve as a start to collect ideas/aspects and eventually even code. However, actual development with regard to XML conversion of and to LilyPond scores is done in the context of the Frescobaldi project and its python-ly Python module."
github.com/frescobaldi/python-ly
pypi.org/project/python-ly/
"There is also experimental support for converting LilyPond to MusicXML."
I hope to try this soon and will report back.
(FYI, Frescobaldi still lacks export capability)
In reply to Another 7 years, and alas… by BanjoJake
What I'm curious about is why anyone--15 years ago or now--would be reporting this (or complaining about it :-) here at MuseScore. This would be a function of Lilypad, not of MuseScore. Why not report it and/or complain about it in some forum that supports Lilypad?
In reply to What I'm curious about is… by TheHutch
It's probably because MuseScore used to support LilyPond import directly and now it doesn't. By the way, it's called "LilyPond", not Lilypad, and they don't have a forum. They do, however, have a couple of mailing lists and an IRC channel. Anyone interested can find details of those here: https://lilypond.org/contact.html
In reply to It's probably because… by Xasman
MuseScore's LilyPond (yes, CamelCase) support is ancient history, it got dropped with MuseScore 2. And it was export only.
Back in the 0.9 days I sometimes used MuseScore as a frontend to LilyPond
In reply to Hi https://musescore.org/en… by niroshan1988
The 'engrave' command in In Frescobaldi v3.3.0 generates a .mid file as well as a PDF.
Then you could try to restore the chord symbols with this:
musescore.org/en/project/chord-identifier-pop-jazz
I tried this once and it mostly worked.
I'm very interested in his matter, too...
Is there anything new?
In reply to I'm very interested in his by xiano
I've been tracking the Lilypond mailing list and nothing new to report on MusicXML export from Lilypond yet.