The Musicline File Format

Version

Musicline 0.2.0

Summary

Musicline is an open-source, Unicode-friendly, plaintext, human-readable and editable file format for storing data as a sequence of events on a numerically divided line, e.g., a timeline divided into seconds, a spatial line divided into meters, a mass line divided into kilograms, etc.

Although primarily designed as the compilation target for the Orfeo programming language, Musicline's note data is adaptable and suitable for a wide range of musical and nonmusical applications.

Sample

musicline

    # Bach
0 1 tempo 60
0 1 note B♭
1 1 note A
2 1 note C
3 1 note B♮
4 1 tail

Charset

UTF-8 is the recommended charset for Musicline files.

File extension

Musicline files are identified by either the .musicline or .mus file extensions.

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