Dead coder's TMD music format finds new life in AI composition, saving tokens
tinyfool · x · 2026-09-17
- A developer spent the past year revising and upgrading open-source code left by his friend "A'Guai," who passed away in 2019.
- One project is TMD (Timebase Markdown), a time-series music notation format with paragraph-based song structure and built-in transposition syntax like (?+1).
- Seven months after forking it, he received a letter from another friend of the late author: TMD turns out to be highly useful for AI music generation — it cuts token usage significantly and reduces errors, since AI can work on individual sections without disturbing the rest, and transpositions need no recomputation.
- The author calls it open source at its finest: preserving not just the past, but giving an idea a future.
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