is there a computer program ?

Question

Is there a program designed to show you the musical notes of the song/track on a reagular cd album as it plays it on your computer and records it as regular sheet music?

Answer 1

I think the only way you can get that is if the song has been converted to midi. As far as I know, sound recognition technology has not quite met up to this challenge. So the closest thing you can get to that is if you can find a midi version of the song you like and then open the midi file in a song editing program like garageband, soundstudio, or noteworthy composer.

Here's a bit of news clipped from http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/2515.cfm
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Philips has developed a music recognition technology

17 December 2001 18:59 by dRD
Philips has developed a music recognition technology that will, at least partly, get rid of that annoying feeling when you hear a song but can't remember the song's or artist's name.

This is how it basically works: You hear a song from the radio and want to know the information of it. You call to "shortnumber" (specially assigned premium rate phone numbers with length of max 5 digits or so) from your cell phone and put your cell phone against the speaker for three seconds and hang up. After 4 seconds you receive an SMS (that's a text message..) to your cell phone with the song's name, artist name and possible name of the album where the song is from.

Philips says that technology is extremely accurate and hopes to start licensing the technology by end of 2002 to mobile phone operators and content providers.

Answer 2

Try Sybelius (not sure about the spelling but this is close).

Answer 3

Not yet. The computing power to require that just isn't here yet.