Although we hope our application can be improved further before announcing our release, go ahead, try it out and give your comments.



Here's the link.

My Music: http://apps.facebook.com/my_music/
My Music About Page: http://www.facebook.com/apps/applicatio ... 2588645831

Installation Link: http://www.facebook.com/add.php?api_key ... 6cfebee234

Well, even though we don't require you to be a facebook user, nor require to add our application to use it, why not add our application if you are already a facebook user? Besides, you get to get most functionality of the app.

Thats all for now, hope to see you over at My Music!

My encounter with the piano started when I was in the 2nd year of secondary/high school, considerably late considering that many kids learn the piano when they were young.

I played this old,broken down piano out placed outside the music room beside the school assembly's hall. Each day after school and I would go down to play the piano, and I found myself in love with the piano. This was how I starting playing and learning the piano.

If that aged broken piano wasn't left outside for student to play around, the piano would continue to be a distance from myself and many of us.

Likewise, there would be many who does not get the chance to play a piano, or even hear or know what is it. Building My Music provides a chance to others who had not touch or seen a real piano to get a closer experience and opportunity by using our app.

To put it another way, having "My Music" is owning a virtual digital piano at a cost less than a percentage of buying a a entry level digital piano.

Creating the sound samples for My Music is challenging task. While there are perhaps better methods, the method we used is outline as follows.

1. Batch scripts used to generate lilypond scripts.
Having 25 notes for each instrument, the script generate a single lilypond script which contains a single note. Although Lilypond, the music typesetter is meant for producing beautiful scores, lilypond files are used only for generating midi files.

2. LilyPondTool used for editing and mass lilypond compilations.
LilyTool, a jEdit plugin, the frontend/IDE for Lilypond, is mine preferred editor for editing lilypond files. "%lilypond %args *.ly" was used to process all lilypond files in the directory.

3. Synthfont was used for converting midi to wavs
I use synthfont to preview its software synthesis with select free and good soundfonts on the net, then used to generate all 25 waves for each note. Wav is used to retain lossless quality before conversions to smaller files. Soundfonts used included John Sankey's harpsichord and Steinway Grand piano samples.

4. Foobar2000 to preview, RazorLAME as frontend for mp3 conversion.
Foobar2000 the lightweight audio player, and LAME was use to compress the audio files. After much experiments, we decided to use VBR 128kbps, Quality 4, Mono, 22KHz to make it compatible with Flash.

5. Repeat steps 1-4 for each instrument needed.

Sharing the same passion and visions for music, Dr Rainer Typke, Researcher at Austrian Research Institute for AI, Vienna, collaborates with us for development of My Music 2!

Dr Rainer runs Musipedia, the open online Music "wiki" Encyclopedia. The stats for musipedia currently says "Searching 30907 melodies and musical themes on musipedia and Searching 6515170 notes from 96884 MIDI files on the net. In case you have not come across his site, do visit it and don't miss his cool features of searching music by clicking a keyboard, typing on your computer keyboard, tapping the rhythms, drawing notes, and my favorite, let the computer recognize your humming or singing!

Despite the many tools, by providing Musipedia a virtual piano, users would find it more natural to play tunes and search. On our side, we are trying to provide a function for users to search musipedia directly on our site, and this not only gives the users powerful information, but more recognitions to musipedia!

Our site and applications are currently going through renovation.

Stay tune for great updates!

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