Several of us put Music XML on the BIAB Wishlist years ago. PG Music concurred that it would be nice to have support for that. I have since learned that other implementations of Music XML are not always done well enough to be reliable, so it must be harder to do than it seemed at first.

Since the MIDI standard does not support chord symbols, you cannot import a BIAB or any other file into music notation programs and get the same chord symbols. Until Music XML is fully supported, the best we have at the moment is to go between programs that use a proprietary format for storing chord symbols, such as BIAB to RealBand, or use whatever chord recognition tool software may have to reconstruct the chord symbols.


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