Bug #125333 for Data-BiaB: Data::BiaB

Thu May 17 01:51:01 2018 tenor [...] johncarelli.com - Ticket created

Subject:	Data::BiaB
Date:	Thu, 17 May 2018 01:27:07 -0400
To:	<bug-Data-BiaB [...] rt.cpan.org>
From:	"John Carelli" <tenor [...] johncarelli.com>

Hi Johan, I've been looking for a program that I can use to dump song information from BiaB files in asci format. Specifically, I'd like to analyze the keys and chord content of popular songs, for a project I'm working on, and I'd like to do it for a large number of songs. Your Data::BiaB module seemed just the ticket because I can do batch runs with it - but something is amiss. I installed it from cpan, but when I run it, the output is, essentially, binary information. I was expecting to see readable ascii. I did see your disclaimer about some files failing, but I get the same output on the example you provided, which leads me to question myself. I'm using Data-BiaB-0.10.3 and I'm running perl 5. I tried both (perl) versions 16 and 22. I also ran under both Cygwin and Win10, all with the same result. Can you offer any insight? Thank you, John Carelli

Fri May 18 13:38:13 2018 jv [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

The docs are wrong; you need to call the parse method before examining the data: my $biab = Data::BiaB->new(); $biab->load("examples/Vaya_Con_Dios.mgu"); $biab->parse; # This will show what was gathered. use Data::Dumper; print Dumper($biab); Sorry for the inconvenience...

Fri May 18 13:38:14 2018 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Fri May 18 13:38:57 2018 jv [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'

Fri May 18 13:38:58 2018 jv [...] cpan.org - Taken

Fri May 18 17:53:39 2018 tenor [...] johncarelli.com - Correspondence added

Subject:	RE: [rt.cpan.org #125333] Resolved: Data::BiaB
Date:	Fri, 18 May 2018 17:31:25 -0400
To:	<bug-Data-BiaB [...] rt.cpan.org>
From:	"John Carelli" <tenor [...] johncarelli.com>

Hi Johan, That helped. 'sorry to bother again, but there still seems to be some issues. I'm attaching a file with output generated using the program you recommended. Errors are embedded with the output. Perhaps you can spot the problem? Thank you again, John Carelli BTW: If you would be willing to shared information on the BIAB file format, I would appreciate that as well. I have no idea where to find that, despite an internet search. - thanks. Show quoted text

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Sat May 19 17:17:29 2018 jv [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

The attached document is totally glibberish. It is not a perl program, not a BiaB document, not output. As for information on the BiaB file format: there is none. An ancient program called biabconverter provided me some insights, and the rest is reverse engineered. BiaB wants its files to be proprietary.