MTXT
Music Text Format
Details
- External ID
- 46095474
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- MTXT
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Nov. 30, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 124
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9192139737991266
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- music creation and audio software
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- text format for music representation
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Building a plain-text music notation specification or parser/converter is straightforward logic that an AI coding assistant can easily generate.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: MIDI, Lilypond, ABC notation, Strudel, AMPLE
Concerns raised: Multiple voices/tracks could become unwieldy, File readability with simultaneous events not horizontally aligned, Designed for LLMs rather than human readability, Limited expressiveness compared to capturing live performance nuances
Feature requests: Macro support for parameterizable actions, Horizontal alignment of simultaneous events like tracker notation, Integration with Strudel (mtxt <=> strudel conversion), Auto-reordering flag to group notes by instruments, Live-coding/live-music feedback loop capability
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 283 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #22 of 284 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 31 days after the earliest competitor.
- Waveform Playlist v5 · hn · 2026-01-07 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Music visualizers that react to audio in real time · hn · 2026-05-12 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Lyricify · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- MangoWave · hn · 2026-03-24 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Infinite Lofi Generative Music · hn · 2025-12-06 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- AnyMusic · hn · 2025-11-28 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- ComfyUI-FL-YuE2 · github · 2026-09-11 · 86 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Clef · hn · 2026-08-07 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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