Audiveris

I tried out Audiveris the other day, and, although I could get it to run, it didn't work as expected, even with their demo. I haven't the foggiest what's going wrong, whether I don't have enough memory or am missing some library. Anyway, I can get it to run and load an image, but interpreting always fails, leaving me with nothing in the 'score' portion and a messed up display. So... that's unfortunate.

OMG! GPL OMR!

I was pointed today to the first GPL Optical Music Recognition (OMR, also Music Optical Character Recognition, or MOCR) software I've ever heard of, Audiveris, and I nearly wet myself (well... ok, not really, but I am giddy).

I haven't tried it yet, but rest assured that I will do so ASAP (hopefully tonight!).