How to install abcmidi on Mac

abcmidi Package Installation on Mac

About abcmidi : Converts abc music notation files to MIDI files!

The abcMIDI package was created by James Allwright in the 1990’s in C code. About 20 years ago, he asked me to take over the support and maintenance of the code. I have been correcting bugs and adding new features since then. (See doc/CHANGES in the source code distribution.)abc is a computer language for notating music in plain text format. It was introduced by Chris Walshaw in 1993 when Windows 3 and MSDOS were the main operating systems on personal computers.

More Information: http://www.ifdo.ca/~seymour/runabc/top.html
Steps:

  1. Launch Terminal by pressing command+space, type terminal and hit Enter key.
  2. Run
    ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" < /dev/null 2> /dev/null
  3. Install
    brew install abcmidi

Done!

Software such as abc2midi and abc2ps for handling abc notation were introduced around this time. Presently there are more than a half a million abc files that are freely available on the internet.