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[Merlin]

Wait, I found some alternatives... unfortunately they're also quite expensive and the quality is terrible, so it's probably not what you're searching for...*click* *clack*
I just tried the shareware versions and I guess they use the same way of converting mp3 to midi as the fullversion... You can try them, but they even turned simple melodies to gibberish.
Well, I just wanted to tell you that there are more of those programs than one, though it seems that they're all very... unuseful.
So I think using your ears and some patience is still the best way to turn music into notes, though it can be challenging. But hey, I think that's why the sheet music on this site is so special!

[Nana1Popo2]

hmm, i see wat u mean... -_- lol
thanx, anyway! ^_^

[Merlin]

You're welcome! ^_^

[GreekGeek]

I think it is in fact possible to do so, because only the frequency of a note makes it the note it is. You can change each soundwave you have into a sinus (called Fouriersynthesis) and a certain frequency at a certain amplitude determines which note it is. You can for example decipher that the note has a frequency of 523 Hz, which means it's a c. But as you can see from the description, it is already quite hard to explain, so it's ump times harder to do so .

But I totally agree with Merlin, if you could decode all music into notes, than this site wouldn't exist and I wouldn't have something fun to do in my spare time  

[Nana1Popo2]

lol, ya