~ or is it just supposed to be interchange format used for encoding, formatting and printing? ~ Listen for example to this mp3 version of Scott Joplin's Elite Syncopations ~ [URL]http://www.recordare.com/xml/elite.mp3[/URL] ~ They say they scanned, OCRed and copy-edited the sheet out of some printed edition published in 1912 into an MusicXML file, from which they then converted it to mp3 and other formats ~ I even find telling that they used rag music for their example, a style which sounds as if it was played with a mechanical player piano anyway ~ Do you know of any music produced out of a musicXML file that truly sounds like actual music? ~ Better yet, do you know of any keyboard or music editing program that could take say an authentic AIFF file and tranfer it back and forth from media data to musicXML text with fidelity? ~ What do you think is at play that makes musicXML reproduccion of music sound so unnatural? ~ I think those encoding to media transfer/reproduccion problems are the same that Text-to-Speech programs have. ~ Thank you lbrtchx
