Re: Add LilyPond incipit on an IMSLP page.

[Knute Snortum]

Pierre: (Why I'm not a Mutopia user.)  I think many of your criticisms are legitimate.  I'd like to be part of making Mutopia a better site.  Right now I am just a contributor but at some point maybe I can help with making the site better.

I don't think there is competition between IMSLP and Mutopia.  There is some overlap, of course.  I could be wrong but what I see mostly at IMSLP are photocopies of scores.  If that's right, I think there's a place for newly created PDFs that are clear.  Also, many times I click on a PDF and it's so old a version that it doesn't render.  At least with a LilyPond file you can (usually) update it and get a decent PDF out of it.

I'd like to see more cooperation between Mutopia and IMSLP.  Is there anything you could suggest?  Perhaps cross links?

Knute Snortum

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On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 7:49 AM, Pierre Perol-Schneider <address@hidden> wrote:

2014-05-08 8:58 GMT+02:00 Federico Bruni <address@hidden>:

 

It's the LilyPond plugin for MediaWiki?

Yep, see :  http://www.imslpforums.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=7034&hilit=incipit
 

BTW, in January I launched a "survey" about contributions to Mutopia:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2014-01/msg00009.html

 

Hum, I've missed this one.

 

As far as I know, you never contributed to it (just had a look on Mutopia git repository).

No I didn't.

 

Can I  ask you why? It's because of the license restrictions (NonCommercial clause is not accepted by Mutopia)?

Because I'm no Mutopia user.

Now the right question would be why am I not a user ?

Well, few years ago I've downloaded one or two files and, as far as I remember :
a) None of'em were compilable.

b) Copy/paste-ing the notes took me much more time than rewriting the whole score after a facsimile.

c) Pdfs look bad (what's the purpose of such footers ??).

I've just take a quick look at the Mutopia site. I'd like to add :

a) it is written "The Mutopia Project offers sheet music editions of classical music for free download" ; which means that it is in direct competition with IMSLP. Does it make sense ?

b) the composer's pages are not user-friendly ; why not using a wiki system ?

c) a majority of (all ?) scores are coded "relatively" ; exept when coding for organ, piano, harp, etc. I never use \relative

d) there is no coding convention; many Mutopia codes (e.g. http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ftp/BrownCJ/lullaby/lullaby.ly)  give me headhaches.

e) there are numbers of pretty old version (v2.4 for this one : http://www.mutopiaproject.org/ftp/CarcassiM/O60/carcassi-op60-01/carcassi-op60-01.ly)

f)...etc. (too long)

I'd like to conclude that Mutopia site remains the same for years, no improvement, no discussion (except you, Federico). So, if nothing changes, I don't see any future for this site.

Cheers,

~Pierre

 

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