Re: Why aren't repeats unfolded automatically in MIDI?

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Erik Sandberg wrote:
> On Sunday 04 December 2005 18.32, Raphael Manfredi wrote:
>
> > What is the technical reason for repeats to not be automatically "played"
> > (i.e. unfolded) as many times as necessary in the MIDI output?
> >
> > The "\unfoldRepeats" is a crude hack, and I fail to see the justification
> > behind this feature.  Surely, lilypond knows how to iterate over repeats
> > to be able to process "\unfoldRepeats" so surely it should not have any
> > problem generating correct MIDI output without this directive.
> >
> > Why isn't this behaviour "fixed" to behave normally, i.e have MIDI output
> > reflect the music as written?
>
>
> Currently, MIDI is mainly intended mainly for prooflistening purposes, and 
> it's not very relevant to listen to repeats when prooflistening.
>
> There are also technical reasons: The interpretation of "volta", "unfold" etc. 
> is not done by the midi/layout backends, but by music iterators. And music 
> iterators don't know whether midi or layout output is being produced.


I'm planning to restructure the syntax of \score, \book and \midi in the 
2.9 cycle so this will no longer be an issue.

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