cmdline utilites?

[zvezdochiot]

I would like to have command line utilities for converting wopn to a format convenient for editing in a regular editor (gedit, geany, mcedit, nano, ...).

[Wohlstand]

Do you want some sort of "wopn2txt" and "txt2wopn"? That should be possible, even command utilities will use Qt and will refer guts of OPN2BE for a file formats processings. Also here would be another command line tool to just convert bank formats between each other. 🤔

[zvezdochiot]

@Wohlstand say:

Do you want some sort of "wopn2txt" and "txt2wopn"?

Yes.

[jpcima]

Given that WOPN(L) is by definition a binary files, it's by definition a new format to add.

If I may add, I think to have some form as YAML or something, is beneficial in one way:
it facilitates development of experimental new features in bank files. It saves a more tedious process:

• introduce feature X
• document it in draft specification
• implement in the editor
• create files of it

but I will see it more as a developer-only tool, not as alternate or substitute of the actual.