From Tune-O-Matic to Melody Assistant

Whistle
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I recently downloaded Melody Assistant to my Windows computer and have tried to transfer ABC files from Tune-O-Matic to MA, but with no success.

When I try to save the .abc file from T-O-M, it gets converted into a text file that MA can’t read - so I must be missing a step.

Can anyone give me the directions on how to transfer ABC or Midi from T-O-M (or any other web site) to MA?

Many thanks for the help.

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Brifitz,

I’ve imported tunes from ABC into MA with no problems. You may want to check the ABC output using notepad to see if TOM added some extra comments to the ABC file. MA doesn’t like some ‘illegal’ characters like the exclamation point(!). It also prefer’s extension .abc for ABC files.

Hope this helps …

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Lee -

Thanks for the response.

The problem fixed itself last night. I went to another music website, found an ABC file, clicked on it and, all of a sudden, the File Download dialog box appeared and I was able to transfer the file.

Then I went back to T-O-M and, after clicking on the same ABC file that had failed numerous times before, the same dialog box appeared and I was able to transfer T-O-M tunes.

I have no idea why the File Download utility suddenly woke up but I hope it stays awake.

Thanks again.

best regards,

Brian