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David
Post: Apr 7th 2010 at 4:29 PM   Post Reply

Guitar Pro 6 was released a few days ago and with it comes a new guitar pro file format: GPX. Hopefully the next version of tuxguitar will support these files. In order to do that we will have to figure out how to open these GPX files.

The best way I can think of is an open collaborative effort.

So to start off, if you don't own a copy of GP6, you can download some sample GPX files here:
http://community.livejournal.com/jrock_tabs/802580.html


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Danielku15
Post: Apr 9th 2010 at 1:39 PM   Post Reply

I already startet analysing the GPX file format. They changed it completely. It also seems that it is encoded somehow. There aren't any unicode strings in the file. But I found a really interesting bit in the install directory. There are XSL files describing parts of the file structure!!


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Sasoribi
Post: Apr 11th 2010 at 2:35 PM   Post Reply

It seems to be an encoded (not necessarily a compressed) XML file. My guess is, that when you open the file with GP6, it gets decoded and is then matched with the XML schema file (gpif.xsd) to make sure the content is valid.

Once someone has figured the encoding algorithm it should be quite easy to read GPX files :)


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bSr43
Post: Apr 28th 2010 at 6:25 PM   Post Reply

Hello !

Just a quick and dirty answer, because I'm in hollyday with no computer.

I'm the one who created GPX binary layout. GPX are compressed files corresponding to a container filesystem, with at least one file inside named score.gpif.

Compression is a very simple home made dynamic dictionnary compression scheme. File starts with "BCFZ" for compressed files and "BCFS" for uncompressed one.

For compression, simply consider file as a binary stream. BCFZ singature is followed by the decompressed length on 32 bits. Then you'll find a succession of compressed and uncompressed chunks. As far as I remember, a 0 means "raw content follows", and 1 means "compressed content follow". For uncompressed chunks (starting with 0), you'll find two bits giving you length in bytes of the following raw content. For compressed, four bits gives you an integer P, then two words of P bits follow named OFFSET and LENGTH, so content is previously uncompressed content found OFFSET bytes later.

I know that those informations are a little bit raw, but with no source code I cannot do so much ;-)

uncompressed resulting file is a little more difficult to explain, but basically, it's just like a little harddisk with files in it, starting with a FAT saying which block are free to write or not. I'm sure you'll understand format easily ;-)


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Julian
Post: May 1st 2010 at 3:24 PM   Post Reply

Hi guys..

bSr43, thanks for the info!!
Doesn't it use any known compression algorithm ?? I don't it at all.


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Anonymous
Post: May 1st 2010 at 7:23 PM   Post Reply

No, sorry, this is not a known algorithm you could find in any library. But implementation following these rules should be written on 30 lines of C ;-)
there was no vital need to use something that was home made, but that was the choice we made to go faster (we already had code written).


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Julian
Post: May 3rd 2010 at 8:48 PM   Post Reply

Will the uncompressed score.gpif file be a text/xml file ?

I'll try to investigate it this weekend.. i'm not sure at all, when you say "compressed and uncompressed chunks... 0 = uncompressed, 1 = compressed".. this 0/1 is the result of a read "bit" or "byte"..

thanks for your help


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Danielku15
Post: May 7th 2010 at 10:45 PM   Post Reply

Sounds very interesting bSr43. I like the idea of a file-system within a file (like thumbs.db). Did the songmodel change as well (sure it did, but how much). Will we be able to integrate the new format into the old songmodel?

@Julian: I'm quite sure they are xml files as there are xslt files within the install directory which are used for file converting.

I'm wondering why one of my posts are missing in this thread. As I remember I answered twice :(


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Julian
Post: Jun 1st 2010 at 11:52 PM   Post Reply

Hey Danielku15, i didn't remove anything if you are asking that :)


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Julie92
Post: Jun 9th 2010 at 7:21 AM   Post Reply

Hi guys, hi bSr43,

Thanks for the draft about GPX format. Has anyone managed to extract the filesystem described above?


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Bassklampfe
Post: Jun 23rd 2010 at 3:59 PM   Post Reply

Hi!

I would proudly like to say, I've reached the first goal. From the eleven files at http://community.livejournal.com/jrock_tabs/802580.html I can decode all into seperate files, which are (until now)

score.gpif, misc.xml, BinaryStylesheet, LayoutConfiguration and PartConfiguration.

Next step will be to look inside the content of all this stuff.

However, the whole thing is quite strange:

* proprietary "archive" format (they call it "little harddisk"), which wastes a lot of space.
[ my result from "09. Relax Over.gpx" : total 565252 used 517352 waste 47900 (8.4%) ]
* proprietary compression format, which isn't very strong (winrar manages to compress the content more than by 71% better than GPX)
and some kind of obfuscated (some bits are hi-endian, others are lo-endian, without any logical motivation),
* Looks like there is no kind of security like CRC32 or something similar. So you can only assume, the file is correct, if the reader does not crash

I really dont understand, why the GP-Team does not use the wellknown standard to put the main xml-file + supporting other files into a zip archive, as this is "good-practice" in nearly every software, which processes XML. Examples are OpenOffice or also capx. Using zip-archiv would make it very easy to read and write GPX files with almost any programming languages on almost any operating system.

But maybe, thats just what they wanted to prevent :-/

Regards Jørgen

PS: Before you ask, my scripts are written in Lua targeting GuitarPro6 Import in PriMus.

PS2: @ TuxGuitar developers. Please feel free to contact me at Joergen dot vonBargen at hamburg dot de and I will gladly share my source with you


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Marco Diego Aurélio Mesquita
Post: Jun 26th 2010 at 1:23 AM   Post Reply

Wow! That's the single most important step in decoding gp6 files as of now.

TG devs, can we hope for gpx support in Tuxguitar 1.3? That would be awesome!


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Danielku15
Post: Jul 4th 2010 at 7:33 PM   Post Reply

I'm already working on a GPX File Reader based on the lua scripts of Bassklampfe. My holidays just began und now I've time for analysis. There's only one method in those scripts which I don't understand. It seems this method is a kind of workaround for replacing the missing bitwise operators in lua.


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Danielku15
Post: Jul 5th 2010 at 2:01 AM   Post Reply

UPDATE: I've translated Bassklampfe's code into C#
and Java which allows me to extract the files within the GPX File. I also started to analyze the most important file: score.gpif
This xml file contains all song information we need to parse the file within the old song model. And the best thing is: Arobas provides the XML Schema file of this xml file (%GP6_INSTALLDIR%/xsl/gpif.xsd) This makes it easy to understand the different values. Tomorrow I'll start writing the XML parser.

Stay tuned for further updates.


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Bassklampfe
Post: Jul 12th 2010 at 2:18 PM   Post Reply

@Danielku15: I'm pleased to hear, my script was helpful for you as a template for your code. Sorry for the issue with the bitops, but I did not have the luabits lib at that place, where I worked on the code.

In the meantime I also ported my code to a C-library, which is now called from my script (which gave an enormous speedup ). And my Beta-Version of PriMus is now able to import GPX-Files. I still have some minor task like "looking up the midi-channels" etc, but the big work seems to be done. (I managed to extract the xml from gpx-files into a similar data structure as I get when reading gp3-5 files.)

By the way: I still have issues at the end of the bitstream while decompression. With almost every file I get a potential short read for the very last chunk. My workaround is to assume, everything is fine, when i get to the last bytes of the bitstream, but I'm not really happy with this solution. Question: Did YOU find any clear indication for "End-Of-Compressed-Data"?

Regards from Hamburg, Germany Jørgen


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Danielku15
Post: Jul 12th 2010 at 10:15 PM   Post Reply

I'm still not any further than you. At my current work I'm trying to optimize your code and get rid of some loops which are not needed in my opinion.

For example this strange loop at line 127 of your lua script surely can be optimized. I'm confused why this data repetition on line 138 is really needed. I tried some other algorithms for reading those chunks.

Currently you don't use the want_size variable. I'm sure we should compare the count of read bytes to this expected size.


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Bassklample
Post: Jul 13th 2010 at 5:12 AM   Post Reply

@Danielku15: You have mail :-)


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Scalpweb
Post: Aug 28th 2010 at 11:08 AM   Post Reply

Hi !

Any news about the gpx file format ?
I'm a Java developper, maybe I can help ?

Cheers,

Scalp


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Scalpweb
Post: Aug 28th 2010 at 11:10 AM   Post Reply

I updated my SVN and saw that there is already a gpx support. Great !


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Anonymous
Post: Aug 31st 2010 at 2:04 PM   Post Reply

What do you mean by updating your SVN. I'm not really good with computers :S and I've been trying to find a way to open a gpx file besides guitar pro 6


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dd
Post: Sep 1st 2010 at 3:48 AM   Post Reply

good


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Anonymous
Post: Sep 14th 2010 at 3:22 AM   Post Reply

Rename *.gpx file to *.gp5
LOL


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Anonymous
Post: Oct 4th 2010 at 1:31 AM   Post Reply

yea what do you mean to update your svn?

I want to know to.


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Audun
Post: Oct 4th 2010 at 2:40 PM   Post Reply

Hey guys!
I just need some updates... how far are we from getting .gpx support in tux? :)

BW,
AudunM


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Kreuger
Post: Nov 30th 2010 at 10:07 PM   Post Reply

Any news on this being implemented?


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Kreuger
Post: Dec 13th 2010 at 6:27 AM   Post Reply

Updates?


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457
Post: Dec 13th 2010 at 8:03 AM   Post Reply

hello fucker


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just passing through
Post: Dec 28th 2010 at 7:40 PM   Post Reply

SVN as in subversion; it means he downloads the code and compiles it.

here, have a look:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tuxguitar/develop/

If I recall, there's a binary snapshot off the trunk floating out there...


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just passing through
Post: Dec 28th 2010 at 7:46 PM   Post Reply

here you go:
http://rzr.online.fr/q/tuxguitar

it's .deb (debian or ubuntu). no windows package, I think ;)


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Kreuger
Post: Dec 31st 2010 at 1:09 PM   Post Reply

Your PPA is retarded. It doesn't work. I'll just build the svn instead.


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Nikita
Post: Jan 11th 2011 at 6:32 PM   Post Reply

Any updates about .gpx files reader in Tuxguitar ?

Cheers,
Nikita


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swalker133
Post: Feb 3rd 2011 at 4:49 AM   Post Reply

Any idea on when .gpx files will work in tuxguitar? Just found this and i really need to convert them:

http://iosmusician.blogspot.com/2011/02/synthesia-guitar-hero-for-piano-like.html


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Maclaren
Post: Mar 6th 2011 at 4:24 PM   Post Reply

Hi. New here.

I've came across to this online converter. It works. Converts GPX and saves it to GP5, MIDI, text, XML and Lilypond.


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Maclaren
Post: Mar 6th 2011 at 4:26 PM   Post Reply

This is site: http://www.tab-exporter.com/


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Valentin
Post: Mar 7th 2011 at 2:13 PM   Post Reply

Thank you!!!


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Proper
Post: Mar 7th 2011 at 3:46 PM   Post Reply

Thank you Maclaren :)


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iosmusician1
Post: Mar 9th 2011 at 2:16 AM   Post Reply

But do u know any site that saves GP5, GP4, GP3, files as .GPX


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Shredder
Post: Apr 17th 2011 at 7:00 PM   Post Reply

http://www.tab-exporter.com/ Is not working :(


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Tomtiger
Post: Apr 25th 2011 at 6:13 AM   Post Reply

Worked for me, I could convert form .GPX to .GP5.
Thank you!


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kakashigr
Post: Jul 19th 2011 at 10:35 AM   Post Reply

This site doesn't process chords at all when you feed it with a gpx file.


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MoonDevil
Post: Jul 21st 2011 at 9:12 AM   Post Reply

If u guys are using Iphones/Ipads which had beed cracked, theres a best way to read those . gpx files
1st - download guitar pro ( newest version ) from Installous - a ( illigal) program to download.
2nd - u need to make sure that u have a laptop or a computer where your .gpx files are stored + using the same net.
3 - Choose " + Add " in G.Pro on iphones/pad and follow the instruction produced there then u will be able to open ur .gpx files.
Hope u guys succeed in the 1st time ( btw my English is very bad so ... )


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Scalpweb
Post: Sep 27th 2011 at 7:20 PM   Post Reply

I'm the guy who developped Tab-Exporter.com website, I'm open to any suggestion to improve it.


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Marco
Post: Sep 27th 2011 at 11:17 PM   Post Reply

@Scalpweb: You better try to contact the developers personally: http://tuxguitar.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tuxguitar/trunk/AUTHORS?revision=873&view=markup


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wolfgang
Post: Sep 29th 2011 at 1:32 PM   Post Reply

will tuxguitar be continued? last official release was in 2009 - three years ago now.


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wolfgang
Post: Sep 29th 2011 at 1:34 PM   Post Reply

sorry - last official release was two years ago. a really long time ...


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DarekKay
Post: Sep 30th 2011 at 2:35 PM   Post Reply

That's a good question. The main developer started to commit new changes, and some other people are working on it as well. The latest SVN version of TG has some cool, new features.
But I don't know, why this stuff hasn't been released yet..


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Hi, im new here... i dont stand a lot all of you say.. mm.. well, i dont be close for your known but, im guitarrist and i feel interesting for know what happen with the format gpx to can read in the TG or maybe become the format... i dont know..
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