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adrianh commented on GPT-5 openai.com/gpt-5/... · Posted by u/rd

It once again completely fails on an extremely simple test: look at a screenshot of sheet music, and tell me what the notes are. Producing a MIDI file for it (unsurprisingly) was far beyond its capabilities.

https://chatgpt.com/share/68954c9e-2f70-8000-99b9-b4abd69d1a...

This is not anywhere remotely close to general intelligence.

adrianh · 4 months ago

Interpreting sheet music images is very complex, and I’m not surprised general-purpose LLMs totally fail at it. It’s orders of magnitude harder than text OCR, due to the two-dimensional-ness.

For much better results, use a custom trained model like the one at Soundslice: https://www.soundslice.com/sheet-music-scanner/

adrianh commented on Litestar is worth a look b-list.org/weblog/2025/au... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

globular-toast · 4 months ago

SQLAlchemy is just a totally different beast to Django, it has a much higher learning curve but gives you so much more power and flexibility. It's a true data mapper ORM rather than the sad Active Record pattern which starts off well and quickly gets annoying.

adrianh · 4 months ago

I've been using the Django ORM for 20 years, and it has yet to get annoying. What's your definition of "quickly" — perhaps 25 years?

adrianh commented on Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists holovaty.com/writing/chat... · Posted by u/adrianh

Thorrez · 5 months ago

When I read the blog post, I thought it was saying that Soundslice didn't have any tab support.

The comparison of "we expect this (classical notation screenshot) but instead got this (ascii tab screenshot)" made me think that the only thing Soundslice supported was classical notation.

adrianh · 5 months ago

Definitely a subtle distinction there. Soundslice supports tab in many formats (MusicXML, Guitar Pro, PowerTab, TuxGuitar, PDF/images of published tab, or tab notated directly in the Soundslice editor) but didn't support ASCII format yet.

adrianh commented on Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists holovaty.com/writing/chat... · Posted by u/adrianh

shermantanktop · 5 months ago

I’m not super familiar with Soundslice. But all the tab users I know use guitar pro or maybe ultimate guitar, and none of them can read standard notation on its own. Does Soundslice have a lot of tab-first users?

adrianh · 5 months ago

Yes, Soundslice has a ton of tab-first users. And in fact the primary reason I founded the site was to scratch my own itch of being able to create tab that's synced with real audio recordings. (I'm a guitarist myself.)

adrianh commented on Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists holovaty.com/writing/chat... · Posted by u/adrianh

shermantanktop · 5 months ago

The music notation tool space is balkanized in a variety of ways. One of the key splits is between standard music notation and tablature, which is used for guitar and a few other instruments. People are generally on one side or another, and the notation is not even fully compatible - tablature covers information that standard notation doesn't, and vice versa. This covers fingering, articulations, "step on fuzz pedal now," that sort of thing.

The users are different, the music that is notated is different, and for the most part if you are on one side, you don't feel the need to cross over. Multiple efforts have been made (MusicXML, etc.) to unify these two worlds into a superset of information. But the camps are still different.

So what ChatGPT did is actually very interesting. It hallucinated a world in which tab readers would want to use Soundslice. But, largely, my guess is they probably don't....today. In a future world, they might? Especially if Soundslice then enables additional features that make tab readers get more out of the result.

adrianh · 5 months ago

I don't fully understand your comment, but Soundslice has had first-class support for tablature for more than 10 years now. There's an excellent built-in tab editor, plus importers for various formats. It's just the ASCII tab support that's new.

adrianh commented on Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists holovaty.com/writing/chat... · Posted by u/adrianh

amelius · 5 months ago

Can this sheet-music scanner also expand works so they don't contain loops, essentially removing all repeat-signs?

adrianh · 5 months ago

Yes, that's a Soundslice feature called "Expand repeats," and you can read about it here:

https://www.soundslice.com/help/en/player/advanced/17/expand...

That's available for any music in Soundslice, not just music that was created via our scanning feature.

adrianh commented on Show HN: Sheet Music in Smart Glasses · Posted by u/kevinlinxc

eitally · 7 months ago

Is there an opportunity to partner with (or sell to) one of the big digital sheet music vendors (like Musescore or Music Notes, etc)? I've never come upon a compelling personal use case for smart glasses, but as a pianist this could be it. I would HAPPILY purchase both glasses and a subscription from one of the big music vendors if this worked seamlessly and I could do things like embed a metronome or link it to my DAW so I could control things like tempo, rewind, even key transposition.

adrianh · 7 months ago

Just a quick plug: check out Soundslice. It's interactive sheet music with a ton of learning tools built in, including easy navigation, looping, tempo changing and transposition.

We've also got a scanning feature that does OCR for sheet music, to get music into our system. Plus there's a full-featured notation editor. A good overview is at https://www.soundslice.com/features/

adrianh commented on Mistral OCR mistral.ai/fr/news/mistra... · Posted by u/littlemerman

s4i · 9 months ago

I wonder how good it would be to convert sheet music to MusicXML. All the current tools more or less suck with this task, or maybe I’m just ignorant and don’t know what lego bricks to put together.

adrianh · 9 months ago

Try our machine-learning powered sheet music scanning engine at Soundslice:

https://www.soundslice.com/sheet-music-scanner/

Definitely doesn't suck.

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webprofusion · a year ago

Excellent, also check out the https://alphatab.net library which would let you render guitar pro tracks for the video.

Around 2013 I built a guitar tab synced to youtube video proof of concept thing and promptly let it rot, should have done more with it!

adrianh · a year ago

Soundslice (https://www.soundslice.com/) is a fully baked version of this idea. Tabs synced with videos, with a full notation/tab editor and tons of built-in music practice tools.