make it so I can post stuff like doot doo dahDOO dootdedootde doodahdoodoo and have everyone know what song i mean but without me having to say it. what do you mean how would that work I don't know I'm just the ideas lady
we need to make mml more popular, it seems like the kind of thing that you could learn and just type without having to listen to it
shouldn't be any harder than learning toki pona, the sort of thing that seems quite easy to learn and many people with more focus than me do (i don't despite that it would benefit me quite a bit to learn)
EDIT: i looked into it a bit more and i'm realizing wikipedia is missing a lot of information and many pages relating to mml aren't helpful and all lead to dead links. i'll make a post putting together what mml information i can find in a bit
i fundamentally think text-based music representations are always going to come up short for most people, because they are read like text, (like guitar tablature and tracker interfaces) and not like shapes in space (like piano roll and western sheet music). those are, as far as i understand, two different process neurologically, and with practice the latter enables sightreading as an extremely fruitful skill, and a level of visual intuition tied to the realized sound of the music that can be breathtaking in itself.
sorry to drive-by use an innocent stranger's musings for a quasi-tirade/manifesto tease, but i have actually been thinking about this specific problem of music representation a lot the past few weeks, might have something to show off for it soon, stay tuned...
