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I think I asked for it last time we saw this here, but this really needs a way to parse standard text-based tabs.

There are hundreds of thousands of songs already transcribed in a (somewhat) standard format that this thing can't yet read. It would seem a logical step to get it reading them.

The TabStave format that this thing reads might make sense to programmers, but I'd bet your average guitar player couldn't make sense of it. As a result, I can't imagine we'll see much music transcribed using this pretty library unless somebody comes up with a graphical editor or a way to read the existing format.




Most of those hundreds of thousands of songs have no rhythm notation to parse.


But then neither does the default notation for this thing. It has the ability to specify note durations, but doesn't require it.

Tab at least has spacing that can be used to infer note durations relative to others within a single piece.




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