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Found 86 applications.
  1. ABassC
    • Originator: Norman Schmidt
    • Functions: Viewer
    • OS: PocketPC Online Palm OS
    • License:
    • Price: Free
    • Description: ABassC is a freeware viewer/player for Palm and PocketPC devices that displays and plays music in either treble or bass clef. It is also available as an online application.
    • URL: http://www.normanschmidt.net/~abc/
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  2. ABC arranger
    • Originator: Neil Jennings
    • Functions:
    • OS: Win
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    • Description: A PC program which reads abc format files, adds chord symbols, and rewrites a new abc file. (This program is now outdated and replaced by Harmony.)
    • URL: http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc/arranger.zip
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  3. ABC Convert-A-Matic
    • Originator:
    • Functions: ABC-PS, Utility, ABC-Midi, ABC-PDF
    • OS: Online
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    • Description: An online inteface for abc2ps and abc2midi. Enter a tune in abc and get it in GIF, PDF and midi formats.
    • URL: http://www.concertina.net/tunes_convert.html
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  4. abc Coordinator
    • Originator:
    • Functions: ABC-Midi, ABC-PS, Viewer
    • OS: Win
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    • Description: abc Coordinator isn't an independent program, but a common interface for abc2ps, GhostScript and AbcMus.
    • URL: http://www.paonline.com/zaikoski/fiddle/abc.htm
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  5. ABC Fiddle/Banjo Player
    • Originator: Mike Casey
    • Functions: Playback
    • OS: Win
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    • Description: Description: This program plays most abc tunes (midi), at a user-selected
      tempo, while displaying the notes on a fiddle/banjo fingerboard.
    • URL: http://www.geocities.com/shanaway1/
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  6. abc mode
    • Originator: Guido Gonzato
    • Functions: Highlight, Playback, Editor
    • OS: Linux Unix DOS Win
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    • Description: An ABC add-on for the Jed text processor.

        Functions:
      • Syntax highlighting
      • "Do re mi" to "c d e" automatic conversion for Latin composers
      • Template generation for new tunes
      • Automatic key generation: tell abc mode the number of sharps or flats, it'll create the K: field
      • note playing through the PC speaker: hear the notes as you type them.
    • URL: http://abcplus.sourceforge.net
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  7. ABC Mode
    • Originator:
    • Functions: Highlight, Playback, Editor
    • OS: Linux
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    • Description: An ABC add-on for emacs.

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      The site where this software was available seems to have gone missing and I have not been able to find any alternative URL. Can anybody help?
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  8. ABC music viewer
    • Originator: Dave Holland
    • Functions: Viewer
    • OS: Palm Pilot
    • License:
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    • Description: ABC Viewer reads tunes in ABC format from the Memo Pad and displays the corresponding musical notation. It's currently still under development, but despite many missing features (and some bugs) it is quite usable.
    • URL: http://www.biff.org.uk/dave/abc.html
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  9. ABC Navigator
    • Originator:
    • Functions: Editor
    • OS: Win
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    • Description: A freeware program for organizing ABC tunes: File editing, with the possibility to merge tunes from different ones and good working search functions; tune editing, with a built in syntax highlightning text editor; midi player - no guitar chord support, but you can change tempo and instrument while playing. Should support saving sets of tunes, but I don't think this has been implemented yet. (Thanks to Gianni Cunich for this information)
    • URL: http://abcnavigator.free.fr/
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  10. ABC Player
  11. ABC Syntax Highlighting
    • Originator:
    • Functions: Highlight
    • OS: Online
    • License:
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    • Description: "ABC Syntax Highlighting" simply color codes the various parts of an ABC tune. This might sound pretty useless untill you've tried to figure out a really complicated ABC tune.

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      The site where this software was available seems to have gone missing and I have not been able to find any alternative URL. Can anybody help?
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  12. ABC Transposition
  13. abc-compare
    • Originator: Richard Robinson
    • Functions: Utility
    • OS: Win Unix Linux
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    • Description: "abc-compare" is a program that reads a list of tunes (in ABC format) and produces numbers representing how "similar" each pair in that list is (as a percentage),
      along with some identifying details on each tune.
    • URL: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Info/RRTuneBk/comparisons/abc-compare.html
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  14. ABC-Player
    • Originator: Henning Kiel
    • Functions: Playback
    • OS: Psion
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    • Description: "This is a player for abc-files, with which you can play *.abc files with the Speaker of the PSION S3a (Acorn PocketBook II).
      At the moment only small and big notes are supported (with sharps and flats) as well as pauses. For the length you can specify a one char number.
      Unknown symbols are ignoriert. Information-fields are not parsed, i.e. all chars are interpreted as notes/pauses."

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      The site where this software was available seems to have gone missing and I have not been able to find any alternative URL. Can anybody help?
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  15. abc2abc
    • Originator: James Allwright
    • Functions: Utility, Editor
    • OS: DOS Linux Unix
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    • Description: An utility to do transposition, error checking and re-formatting on an abc file. abc2abc is now available only as a part of the abcMIDI package.
    • URL: http://abc.sourceforge.net/abcMIDI/
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  16. abc2ly
    • Originator: Jan Nieuwenhuizen
    • Functions: Utility
    • OS: Linux
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    • Description: Converts ABC to ly (Lilypond).
    • URL: http://www.lilypond.org
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  17. abc2midi
    • Originator: James Allwright
    • Functions: ABC-Midi
    • OS: DOS Linux Unix
    • License:
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    • Description: As the name says. abc2midi is now available only as a part of the abcMIDI package.
    • URL: http://abc.sourceforge.net/abcMIDI/
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  18. abc2mtex
    • Originator: Chris Walshaw
    • Functions: ABC-PS
    • OS: Linux Unix DOS Win Mac
    • License:
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    • Description: The original ABC application. Works with MusicTex to create postcript output from ABC files. abc2mtex doesn't support recent additions to ABC, but the output is much better than any other abc-to-graphics applications.
    • URL: http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc2mtex/
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  19. ABC2MUP V0.01
    • Originator: Falk Braeuer
    • Functions: Utility
    • OS: Unix
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    • Description: An application that converts ABC to MUP (MusicPublisher-Format). Available as source code and binary for Sun OS.

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  20. ABC2NW
    • Originator: Sean O'Malley
    • Functions: Utility
    • OS: Win
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    • Description: Converts ABC into Music Publisher/Noteworthy (not Noteworthy Composer) files.

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  21. ABC2NWC
    • Originator: Bryan Creer
    • Functions: Utility
    • OS: Win
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    • Description: Converts files between ABC and Noteworthy Composer formats.
    • URL: http://members.aol.com/abacusmusic/
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  22. abc2prt
    • Originator: Guido Gonzato
    • Functions: Utility
    • OS: Win Unix
    • License:
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    • Description: abc2prt is a simple tool to extract parts from multivoice ABC music files.
    • URL: http://abcplus.sourceforge.net
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  23. abc2ps
    • Originator: Michael Methfessel
    • Functions: ABC-PS
    • OS: Unix Linux DOS Win
    • License:
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    • Description: abc2ps is probably the most popular abc program today. It's also the basis for other programs like abc4mac, abctab2ps, abcm2ps, yaps and jaabc2ps.
    • URL: http://www.ihp-ffo.de/~msm/
    • Alternative URL: http://www.ceolas.org/tunes/#abc
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  24. ABC2Tab
  25. ABC2Win
    • Originator: Jim Vint
    • Functions: Playback, ABC-PS, Editor
    • OS: Win
    • License:
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    • Description: This program allows users of Microsoft Windows to write tunes, view the tunes as publication-quality music and play the tunes over the built-in PC speaker.
    • URL: http://www.c7r.com/abc/
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  26. abc2xml
    • Originator: John Lynch
    • Functions: Utility
    • OS: Win
    • License:
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    • Description: abc2xml converts ABC files to MusicXML format.

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      The site where this software was available seems to have gone missing and I have not been able to find any alternative URL. Can anybody help?
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  27. abc2xml (linux version)
  28. abc4mac
    • Originator: Wil Macaulay
    • Functions: Midi-ABC, ABC-PS, ABC-Midi
    • OS: Mac
    • License:
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    • Description: A combination of abc2ps and abc2midi for the Macintosh. It also comes with a simple version of macmidi2abc and a couple of AppleScripts (requiring GhostScript) for converting ABC directly to PDF and jpeg formats and to a web page.
    • URL: http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/7088/abc4mac.html
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  29. ABCcheck
  30. ABCcontrib
    • Originator: John Chambers
    • Functions: ABC-PS, ABC-Midi, ABC-PDF, Viewer
    • OS: Online
    • License:
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    • Description: An online inteface for abc2ps and abc2midi. The page is really supposed to be a form for submitting music to John Chamber's ABC tune archive, but it does return the music as midi and various graphic formats, and John has told me its OK for people to use it as an online converter.
    • URL: http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/ABCcontrib.html
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  31. ABCEditor
    • Originator: Elizabeth Scarlett
    • Functions: Editor
    • OS: Win
    • License:
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    • Description: "ABCEditor lets you edit files and provides an interface to abcm2ps and ghostview.
      It was written by my wife Elizabeth Scarlett but she's not maintaining it
      now.

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      The site where this software was available seems to have gone missing and I have not been able to find any alternative URL. Can anybody help?
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  32. ABCexplorer
    • Originator:
    • Functions: Editor, Playback, Viewer
    • OS: Win
    • License: Freeware
    • Price: Free
    • Description: ABCexplorer allows to create, edit, play and organize musical files in ABC format (text format) under Windows.
    • URL: http://abc.stalikez.info/abcex.php
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  33. ABCFind
    • Originator: Elizabeth Scarlett
    • Functions: Utility
    • OS: Win
    • License:
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    • Description: ABCFind is a 16-bit Windows program that lets you search ABC tune files for text or tune fragments. You can look for tune titles (or any text string) in your ABC files, search for tunes if you know the first (or any) bar of the music but not the title, compare tunes, and more.
    • URL: http://www.magma.ca/~scarlett/abc/
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  34. abcindex
    • Originator: Brad C. Johnson
    • Functions: Utility
    • OS: Perl (You need a perl application to be able to run it on your computer.)
    • License:
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    • Description: abcindex is a Perl script takes one or more ABC music files and produces a index file suitable for use with LaTeX. Brad has also included a simple Perl script for renumbering ABC tunes on his site.

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      The site where this software was available seems to have gone missing and I have not been able to find any alternative URL. Can anybody help?
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  35. abcm2ps
  36. abcMIDI
  37. ABCMR
    • Originator: Luis Pablo Gasparotto
    • Functions: Utility
    • OS: Perl (You need a perl application to be able to run it on your computer.)
    • License:
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    • Description: This program allows to condense a sequence of whole rests in an ABC format music file. Is a PERL script. The output is directed to standard out and can be to a file using \">\"
    • URL: http://abcmr.sourceforge.net/
    • Alternative URL: http://personales.ciudad.com.ar/luispagasparotto/
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  38. AbcMus
    • Originator: Henrik Norbeck
    • Functions: Editor, Playback, Utility
    • OS: Win
    • License:
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    • Description: AbcMus is a program for tunebooks in ABC format, created by Henrik Norbeck.
      • Playback with a nice, definable style, via the sound card. Makes the tunes worth listening to. The best ABC player software so far?
      • Play only part of a tune. Simply mark the part you want to play.
      • Fast search for a text through all your ABC files (composer, name, etc).
      • Loose match option for search. Handy when names are spelled in several ways.
      • Powerful music search to match a melody or tune, even finding transposed tunes or variations.
      • Automatic chordsetting utility, transposing of tunes and other abc tools.
      • Easy handling of ABC tunebooks. Copy, move and edit tunes, etc.
      • Automated generation of tune lists, cheat sheets, tune indexes, etc, with flexible format.
      • Import files from some other common tune file formats.
      • Save tunes as MIDI files.
    • URL: http://www.norbeck.nu/abcmus/
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  39. abcpp
    • Originator: Guido Gonzato
    • Functions: Editor
    • OS: Linux
    • License:
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    • Description: abcpp is a simple yet powerful preprocessor designed for, but not limited to, ABC music files. I wrote it for two reasons: first, I wanted to overcome incompatibilities between ABC packages; secondly, I wanted to be able to
      write portable and more readable ABC files.
    • URL: http://abcplus.sourceforge.net
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  40. abcselect
    • Originator: Christoph Dalitz
    • Functions: Utility
    • OS: Perl (You need a perl application to be able to run it on your computer.)
    • License: GNU General Public License
    • Price: Free
    • Description: A Perl script for the extraction of voices, tunes, parts etc. from abc-files.
    • URL: http://www.lautengesellschaft.de/cdmm/index.html#Addons
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  41. abctab2ps
    • Originator: Christoph Dalitz
    • Functions: ABC-Tab, ABC-PS
    • OS: Unix Linux Win Atari Mac
    • License: GNU General Public License
    • Price: Free
    • Description: Description: abctab2ps is an abc->postscript converter based on abc2ps with additional support for lute/guitar/banjo/mandolin tablature. Various kinds of historic lute tablature types are supported.
    • URL: http://www.lautengesellschaft.de/cdmm/
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  42. ABCTools
    • Originator: Elizabeth Scarlett
    • Functions: Editor
    • OS: Win
    • License:
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    • Description: ABCTools is a 16-bit Windows program that lets you transpose ABC tunes, make cheat sheets, check the syntax of your tune files, and more.
    • URL: http://www.magma.ca/~scarlett/abc/
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  43. ABCTwin
    • Originator: Phil Todd
    • Functions: Utility
    • OS: Win
    • License:
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    • Description: ABCTwin is a windows application which creates twin and triple harmony parts from an abc melody file with guitar chords.

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  44. AbcView
    • Originator: Rick Miller
    • Functions: Viewer
    • OS: Online
    • License:
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    • Description: An online Java based abc viewer. Converts abc files to standard notation and displays it on the screen.
    • URL: http://www.execpc.com/~rdmiller/Java/abc.html
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  45. BarFly
  46. BMW2ABC
    • Originator:
    • Functions:
    • OS: Win
    • License:
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    • Description: Converts BMW files to ABC.

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      The site where this software was available seems to have gone missing and I have not been able to find any alternative URL. Can anybody help?
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  47. Emacs abctab-mode
    • Originator: Christoph Dalitz
    • Functions: Highlight, Editor
    • OS: Linux Unix Win
    • License: GNU General Public License
    • Price: Free
    • Description: An abc language mode for the editor Emacs. With some extra tablature features.
    • URL: http://www.lautengesellschaft.de/cdmm/abctab-mode.el
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  48. Harmony
    • Originator: Neil Jennings
    • Functions: Editor, Viewer, Midi-ABC, ABC-Midi
    • OS: Win
    • License: Shareware
    • Price: $15
    • Description: A notation program for Windows. It's main claim to fame is the ability to add chords to tunes, but it can also import and export MIDI and abc (with some restrictions) and create tablature for free reed instruments such as Melodeon and Concertina. It can also create jigs and reels (sometimes passable) by random generation.
        Features:
      • Add chords to a melody
      • Play tune / make MIDI file
      • Print or display score
      • Transpose
      • Import and Export 'abc' format tunes
      • Import MIDI files
      • Generate random tunes
      • Make Ring Tones
    • URL: http://www.greenhedges.com/
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  49. Harmony Assistant for Macintosh
    • Originator:
    • Functions: Playback, Editor, ABC-Midi, ABC-Tab, Viewer, Utility
    • OS: Mac
    • License:
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    • Description: Harmony is a versatile music editor/player/arranger for Macintosh. The essential software for music lovers and composers, with automatic accompaniments, drum patterns, and many other built-in tools.
    • URL: http://www.regnow.com/softsell/nph-softsell.cgi?item=1655-6&affiliate=19844
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  50. Harmony Assistant for Windows
  51. iabc
    • Originator: Aaron Newman
    • Functions: Editor, Playback, Viewer
    • OS: Win Linux
    • License:
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    • Description: "Iabc understands most of the abc that is commonly in use, as far as I can tell, although it
      doesn't implement all the features of abc yet. It allows displaying and printing of music.
      It doesn't display some things correctly and crashes once in awhile. Once I get all the
      music features going I plan to add editing cabability and midi file output as well."
    • URL: http://abc.sourceforge.net/iabc/
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  52. jaabc2ps
    • Originator: John Atchley
    • Functions: ABC-PS, ABC-Tab
    • OS: Win Linux Unix
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    • Description: John Atchely's version of abcm2ps. It includes a lot of nice features, including support for tin whistle and stringed instrument tablatures, and some extended page formatting features.
    • URL: http://www.guitarnut.com/abc/index.html
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  53. jcabc2ps
    • Originator: John Chambers
    • Functions: ABC-PS
    • OS: Linux
    • License:
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    • Description: John Chambers' version of abc2ps. Its main advantage compared to other abc2ps clones is its ability to understand a wide range of ABC "dialects".
    • URL: http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/src/
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  54. JedABC
    • Originator: Guido Gonzato
    • Functions: Editor
    • OS: Linux Win Unix
    • License:
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    • Description: JedABC is an extension to the JED editor that turns it into a powerful and easy to use IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for ABC files, with full integration with players and previewers. It's similar in concept to BarFly or runabc, with several advantages. JedABC works on Windows and Linux, and possibly other Unix variants.
    • URL: http://abcplus.sourceforge.net
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  55. m2g
    • Originator: Jerry Dallal
    • Functions: ABC-Tab
    • OS: DOS
    • License:
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    • Description: m2g is a freeware DOS utility for IBM-compatible computers that adds abc guitar tablature notation to a file of abc music notation. The results are automatically fed to
      abctab2ps to generate a PostScript file of standard music and tab.

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  56. Macabc2chord
    • Originator: Anselm Lingnau
    • Functions: Utility
    • OS: Perl (You need a perl application to be able to run it on your computer.)
    • License:
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    • Description: A simple perl script that extracts chord symbols from an ABC file. The script has been configured as a MacPerl droplet, but can easily be modified to run on Linux/Unix and Windows computers as well.
    • URL: http://www.musicaviva.com/software/macabc2chord.tpl
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  57. macmidi2abc
    • Originator: Thurman Gillespy III
    • Functions: Midi-ABC
    • OS: Mac
    • License:
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    • Description: A Macintosh version of James Allwright's midi2abc. Converts midi files to ABC notation. It doesn't always work, but it's still really useful.

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  58. Melody Assistant for Macintosh
    • Originator:
    • Functions: Playback, Editor, ABC-Midi, ABC-Tab, Viewer
    • OS: Mac
    • License:
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    • Description: Melody is a complete music editor and player for Macintosh.

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  59. Melody Assistant for Windows
  60. midi2abc
    • Originator: James Allwright
    • Functions: Midi-ABC
    • OS: DOS Linux Unix
    • License:
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    • Description: As the name says. midi2abc is now available only as a part of the abcMIDI package.
    • URL: http://abc.sourceforge.net/abcMIDI/
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  61. midi2abc (Seymour Shlien's version)
    • Originator: Seymour Shlien
    • Functions: Midi-ABC
    • OS: Win
    • License:
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    • Description: Seymour Shlien has created a Tcl/Tk script for running James Allwright's midi2abc program.
    • URL: http://ifdo.pugmarks.com/~seymour/runabc/top.html
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  62. Muse
    • Originator: Laurie Griffiths
    • Functions: Playback, Editor, ABC-Midi, Midi-ABC, ABC-Tab, Tab-ABC, Viewer
    • OS: Win
    • License:
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    • Description: A shareware notation program for Windows with extensive ABC support.
    • URL: http://web.ukonline.co.uk/Members/laurie.griffiths/
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  63. MuseLi
    • Originator:
    • Functions: Viewer
    • OS: Win
    • License:
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    • Description: A WIndows 95 music notation program specially made for traditional music (it even includes a special melodeon tablature feature!).

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      The site where this software was available seems to have gone missing and I have not been able to find any alternative URL. Can anybody help?
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  64. MusicEase
    • Originator:
    • Functions: Playback, Editor, Viewer
    • OS: Win
    • License:
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    • Description: A shareware notation program that can import ABC files.
    • URL: http://www.musicease.com/
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  65. Nedit abctab-mode
    • Originator: Christoph Dalitz
    • Functions: Highlight, Editor
    • OS: Linux Unix
    • License: GNU General Public License
    • Price: Free
    • Description: An abc language mode for the editor Nedit. With some extra tablature features.
    • URL: ttp://www.lautengesellschaft.de/cdmm/index.html#Addons
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  66. NMD2ABC
    • Originator:
    • Functions: Utility
    • OS: Win
    • License:
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    • Description: Translates Nottingham tunes to ABC format.

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  67. NoteEdit
  68. PalmABC
    • Originator: Steve Gander
    • Functions: Playback, Editor
    • OS: Palm Pilot
    • License:
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    • Description: PalmABC provides the ability to both store, play and edit ABC tunes. These tunes can also be stored on a PC and transferred in either direction between the PC and the Palm device. You can also beam (infrared) single tunes to other Palm devices running the program.

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  69. PalmABC 1.0b
  70. playabc
  71. PlayQABC
    • Originator: Jim Vint
    • Functions: Playback
    • OS: DOS
    • License:
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    • Description: The tune play program runs in DOS to play tunes in ABC notation. It can be run with or without ABC2Win. It plays tunes in the correct pitch, with user control of playback speed.
    • URL: http://www.c7r.com/abc/
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  72. Runabc.tcl
  73. SET6
    • Originator: William Robison
    • Functions: Editor, Viewer
    • OS: Unix Win
    • License:
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    • Description: A notation program specially created to notate highland bagpipe tunes. Can import ABC files.

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      The site where this software was available seems to have gone missing and I have not been able to find any alternative URL. Can anybody help?
    • URL:
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  74. Skink
    • Originator: Wil Macaulay
    • Functions: Editor, Viewer
    • OS: Java (Requires a Java enabled computer. Most modern computer can handle that, but older ones might have problems.)
    • License:
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    • Description: Skink is an experimental application that can display abc. It runs anywhere there is a Java 1.1 or 1.2 runtime, including Unix, Linux, Windows, Mac OS and Mac OSX.
    • URL: http://www.geocities.com/w_macaulay/abc4mac.html
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  75. SortAbc
    • Originator: Christopher Myers
    • Functions: Utility
    • OS: Perl (You need a perl application to be able to run it on your computer.)
    • License:
    • Price: Free
    • Description: A short perl script that takes as input your ABC file, and creates a new file myfile.abc.new which has the tunes sorted by title.
    • URL: http://members.cox.net/chrismyers/sort_abc.pl
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  76. sw2abc
    • Originator: Steve Allen
    • Functions:
    • OS: Perl (You need a perl application to be able to run it on your computer.)
    • License:
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    • Description: Converts SongWrite tunes found in the Digital Tradition Database to ABC score format (but very crudely! some further editing is required!)
    • URL: http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/morris/music/sw2abc
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  77. tab2abc
    • Originator: Christoph Dalitz
    • Functions: Tab-ABC
    • OS: Perl (You need a perl application to be able to run it on your computer.)
    • License: GNU General Public License
    • Price: Free
    • Description: A Perl script which converts from Wayne Cripps' "tab" format to abc. "tab" is a popular file format for lute tablature.
    • URL: http://www.lautengesellschaft.de/cdmm/index.html#Addons
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  78. TablEdit
    • Originator:
    • Functions: Tab-ABC, ABC-Tab, Viewer
    • OS: Win Mac
    • License:
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    • Description: Tablature editor that can import and export ABC files.
    • URL: http://www.tabledit.com/
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  79. tclabc
    • Originator: Jean-François Moine
    • Functions: Editor, Midi-ABC, Utility
    • OS: Linux Unix Win Mac
    • License:
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    • Description: tclabc is a tcl extension which permits ABC tunes parsing and editing.
      • The ABC tunes are converted into an internal representation suitable for many tcl operations, without losing the original tune information.
      • Most of the ABC specification is supported.
      • The headers and tune symbols may be changed in many ways.
      • Transposition is done automatically when changing the key signature.
      • Bars may be automatically inserted.
      • MIDI files may be imported (MIDI export will exist in a next release).
      • Partial dump/include solves the selection copy/paste functions.
      • When using Linux or FreeBSD with a sound board, the notes and the tunes may be played.
      • Note input may be done thru a MIDI keyboard.
    • URL: http://moinejf.free.fr/
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  80. TIAO
    • Originator: Steve MAnsfield
    • Functions: Utility
    • OS: Online
    • License:
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    • Description: TIAO is an online form which takes any piece of text pasted into the text box, and generates an abc tune from it.
    • URL: http://www.lesession.co.uk/abc/tiaohelp.htm
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  81. tkabc
    • Originator: Jean-François Moine
    • Functions: Editor, Playback
    • OS: Linux Unix
    • License:
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    • Description: tkabc is a graphical user interface written in Tcl/Tk and using the tclabc extension for music edition.
        All of the tclabc features are offered into a graphical form.
      • Parts of a tune may imported/exported using the window system selection.
      • Note input may be done thru a virtual piano keyboard.
      • MIDI playing follows the score.
    • URL: http://moinejf.free.fr/
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  82. tranpose_abc
    • Originator: Matthew J. Fisher
    • Functions: Utility
    • OS: Perl (You need a perl application to be able to run it on your computer.)
    • License:
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    • Description: A nice little perl script that transposes an ABC file.

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      The site where this software was available seems to have gone missing and I have not been able to find any alternative URL. Can anybody help?
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  83. TuneSort
  84. Virtual Composer
    • Originator: Ioannis Galidakis
    • Functions: Editor, Playback, ABC-Midi, Viewer
    • OS: Mac
    • License:
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    • Description: A shareware notation program with ABC support.
    • URL: http://virtualcomposer2000.com/
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  85. xml2abc
    • Originator: John Lynch
    • Functions: Utility
    • OS: Win
    • License:
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    • Description: xml2abc is an XSL transformation script that converts MusicXML files to ABC format.

      Broken link
      The site where this software was available seems to have gone missing and I have not been able to find any alternative URL. Can anybody help?
    • URL:
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  86. Yaps
    • Originator: James Allwright
    • Functions: ABC-PS
    • OS: DOS Linux Unix Mac
    • License:
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    • Description: James Allwright's variation on the abc2ps theme. Yaps is also a part of the abcMIDI package.

      Phil Taylor has made a simple Yaps port for the Macintosh. You can get it at http://www.barfly.dial.pipex.com.

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