Magenta: archived Python TensorFlow library for machine learning in music and art, README overview

What it supplies: The README describes Magenta as a research project exploring the role of machine learning in creating art and music, and this repository as its Python TensorFlow library. The repository is marked inactive, archived and read only, and serves as a supplement to papers. Useful for: - Study the research code behind the project's papers on generating music and other material. - Try models through the Colab notebooks, or in the browser through the separate Magenta.js project. - Find the project's current work through the Magenta website and its GitHub organization. First action: - Look at the Colab notebooks, including the getting-started one. - Install with pip install magenta, using Anaconda if you prefer. - Install the sound-library headers the README lists if the rtmidi dependency fails to build. Prerequisites and limits: The README says Python 3 (>= 3.5) is supported and recommends Anaconda. It says rtmidi may need system sound-library headers and gives Ubuntu and Fedora commands. It gives no release number. - The repository is archived and read only, so it will not receive fixes. - The README supports Python 3 from 3.5; it does not say how it behaves on current Python or TensorFlow versions. - Current work lives in other repositories that were not read. The README states no licence in its text, and no licence file was read here, so check the repository before use or redistribution. Models, data and music you generate carry their own rights. Written from the README text only. Statements are as the README gives them; nothing was installed or run. Based on README text only; the models, the notebooks, the licence file and the code were not read. No install or run was made. Source inspected: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/magenta/magenta/c15687ebd1c1cc12658cd468c737d3c24c02b918/README.md ; 5657 bytes ; sha256 75bfc25e4409a9150b67476356d65ea4dc9d902be4de8b17927e44bc038a3909 ; 8 exact pinned excerpts in the draft pin map

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