Posted by neogenix 5 hours ago
There are services that transcribe music from Youtube videos into tabs, but they never work well enough for me. Instead I'm taking a simpler approach. It downloads the video, samples frames, uses Claude vision to locate the tab region, crops every frame to that region, de-duplicates the crops by the bar number printed on each line of the score, and stitches the distinct tab lines vertically into a PDF.
I didn't test it on a lot of different Youtube videos yet, so problem will arise for sure.
Here is what I was cribbing from with my own version. Seems they updated it since.
Here's a working version: https://freetar.sievers.dev
I only need the clean tab and transposing would be nice.
TerminalTabs anyone?
I don't like having to switch to desktop mode to transpose though. They want you to get the app to do it on mobile which is enough of a reason to make a special program to do exactly what I want.
Also, scraping chord charts is in a different catagory from tabs. I can't even actually read tabs but with a chord chart you can get close enough to noodle around and emulate. Good enough for my needs.
I think in most cases it is the effort that is the gate. Ex. you can DDOS most public facing services simply by spamming AI.
I can't imagine getting started with any instrument as an adult. Actually, I'm trying to improve my piano playing right now and it's nearly impossible.
If I had spent my first year learning the instrument properly, I wouldn't have wasted the next decade after that fumbling around so much.