{"id":15,"date":"2009-06-28T09:14:31","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T09:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abcnotation.com\/blog\/?p=15"},"modified":"2021-07-07T07:35:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T06:35:54","slug":"lotro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcnotation.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/28\/lotro\/","title":{"rendered":"LOTRO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I kind of expected I might get to hear about new abc collections and software by relaunching the site, but I hadn&#8217;t anticipated LOTRO.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Apparently,\u00a0 LOTRO (<a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.lotro.com\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.lotro.com\/\">Lord of the Rings Online<\/a>) is a multiplayer online role-playing game that has adopted abc notation for music making by the players.<\/p>\n<p>I was alerted to it by one of the <a href=\"\/forums\/viewtopic.php?f=4&amp;t=3#p8\">first replies<\/a> to my poll on people&#8217;s <a href=\"\/forums\/viewtopic.php?f=4&amp;t=3\">favourite abc software<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And it turns out that there are thousands of <a href=\"\/tunes#LOTRO\">abc tunes compiled by LOTRO players<\/a> &#8211; including pop and rock classics (from Abba to ZZ Top) and classical pieces from Bach, Beethoven and others.<\/p>\n<p>Some of them are <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quantization_(music)');\"  href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quantization_(music)\">quantized<\/a> midi files (i.e. probably played in on a midi keyboard and then converted to abc) which means they don&#8217;t always have bar lines. Also, if the quantizing hasn&#8217;t worked perfectly, you get some very odd note lengths (I saw one abc note with the length 45\/8!).<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, it&#8217;s a fascinating (and welcome) development for abc notation and one which I would never have guessed at.<\/p>\n<p>Now, where did I put my lute &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Chris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I kind of expected I might get to hear about new abc collections and software by relaunching the site, but I hadn&#8217;t anticipated LOTRO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[150,195,196,175,22,447],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcnotation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcnotation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcnotation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcnotation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcnotation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/abcnotation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":868,"href":"https:\/\/abcnotation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcnotation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcnotation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcnotation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}