Music Blocks/2025-01-05-meeting

2024-12-15 Music Blocks meeting notes

Attended: Ajeet, MostlyK, Muhammad, Ubayed, Diwangshu, Harshit, MostlyK, Nikhil, Shridhar, Devin, Walter

Collaboration

Ajeet reported on collaboration.

Implemented EngineX to route browser requests to the docker container. This is giving more consistent results across browsers.

Chatbot proposal

Om Santosh reported chatbot proposal: https://github.com/omsuneri/Interactive-Chatbot-and-Debugger-for-Music-Blocks

Feedback: Music theory assistance wrt MB and assistance with debugging seem most promising.

Muhammad and Ubayed

Propose to update the guide in order to get better results in a RAG model

Discussion: We do have a model for lesson plan generator (https://github.com/sugarlabs/Musicblocks-AI), which we recommend to look while working on any new LLM things.

Bug in our new tests

MostlyK

It's because we are having 2 syntax and jest requires export, but in the web version we would have the errors. One easy fix is rather than exporting from API/js , we can just rewrite the API in test

Action item: create a new ticket to fix errors.

Creating new Music Blocks projects

Nikhil

Discussion: We should create Holi music and other Indian music, Pakistani music, and other music. We have some tools to assist with this, such as MIDI import and a transcription tool (https://github.com/sugarlabs/music_transcription). The transcription tool is for taking recorded audio, transferring to MIDI, and creating MB code. It's not yet on a server.

Also, creating an interactive instrument for different instruments is a good idea.

Action item: Everyone here can work together to create new MB projects that represent different cultures and different parts of the world.

Other reports

Diwangshu -- nothing to report

Harshit -- nothing to report

MostlyK -- nothing to report

Shridhar

Discussion: Gave a short intro to how to find projects on MB's planet.

Ubayed Bin Sufian

Report: From my end, I am almost at the end of reading the guide.md file and fixing the typos & adding links. Hopefully, I can finish it by next week.

Then I would update the guide.html file which will help Muhammad Haroon to create the interactive chatbot.