[MusicTlk] Reading sheet music on a Braille Display

Wed May 5 17:51:57 UTC 2021

I agree the Good Feel suite seems to have a lot of great features. Have you thought of making a version for Mac available? Or maybe an app for IOS or Android? I know there's the lime lighter app for low vision users but I don't think a blind user could use that. My wish list grows the more I look at your website haha I wish my money tree grew as quickly. 
What is the braillescore program that converts files to brf? I tried to find it on google but it wasn't found. Does it still exist and how can I find it?

Shannon

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From: MusicTlk <musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Bill McCann via MusicTlk
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Subject: Re: [MusicTlk] Reading sheet music on a Braille Display

Following up on one of Chase's points, the BrailleView application that ships with GOODFEEL 4.2 suite has a new and improved Save As feature that saves the braille music output from GOODFEEL as a .brf file which you can open on any notetaker.  GOODFEEL's native format is actually called .gf and, although it's structurally quite similar to .brf, it needs to be saved in .brf format depending on how you plan to use it.  

That is, for years now, the Duxbury Braille Translator software and all braille devices from HIMS, Inc., recognize .gf format as formatted braille.  Unfortunately, devices from Humanware and other manufacturers do not yet recognize the .gf format so you must be sure to save the output from GOODFEEL as .brf before you can use it on those devices.  We at Dancing Dots would certainly appreciate it if you would request direct support for the .gf format from the makers of whichever device you yourself use to read braille.

Regards from springtime Pennsylvania,
Bill McCann
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Dancing Dots

Tel: 610-783-6692

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From: MusicTlk <musictlk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Chase Crispin via MusicTlk
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Subject: Re: [MusicTlk] Reading sheet music on a Braille Display

Hi Shannon,
I frequently use my Braille Sense to read braille music. As others have mentioned, the challenge is getting the music into a PRF file. You can do this either by scanning music into an XML to braille converter such as Goodfeel from Dancing Dots, or by having music professionally transcribed. You can also download quite a bit of music in BRF format from the NLS BARD website if you are a member. You actually don’t need to change your braille Sense to computer braille. Just open the BRF file as you would open any other file and the music will display correctly. Braille files contain all of the braille characters that the braille sense needs to display, so you will not have any issues reading the music regardless of your settings on the Braille Sense.

Chase Crispin
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> On May 3, 2021, at 8:13 AM, Shannon Williams via MusicTlk <musictlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I was just wondering how to read braille music with a braille display? 
> I have a Braille Sense U2 32 cell display and was wondering if I could 
> read sheet music with it? I was thinking that the music would have to 
> be in .brf format and that I'd have to change the braille to computer 
> braille but that doing this would allow me to read sheet music?
> 
> 
> 
> Any help or suggestions would be great.
> 
> 
> 
> Shannon
> 
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