# allthemusicllc/atm-cli

Command line tool for generating and working with MIDI files.

Repository: https://github.com/allthemusicllc/atm-cli
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/atm-cli
Homepage: http://allthemusic.info
Language: Rust
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: midi, music, rust, creative-commons, public-domain
Last push: 2026-05-29T21:18:42+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 70/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 84, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2580, "days_push": 96, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1414, forks 102 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:39.582803+00:00)

## What it is
A Rust command line tool for generating and working with MIDI files, built to brute-force generate all mathematically possible melodies. It was created by All the Music, LLC to release melodies into the public domain and help musicians avoid copyright infringement lawsuits.

## Use cases
- generate a MIDI file from a melody
- brute-force generate all possible melodies from a set of notes
- batch export melodies to a gzip-compressed tar archive
- find which partition directory a melody was written to
- create public-domain MIDI datasets of melodies

## When to choose
- you need to generate MIDI files from note sequences on the command line
- you want to exhaustively enumerate melodies within given pitch and length constraints
- you need reproducible, partitioned bulk generation of MIDI datasets

## When to avoid
- you need a Rust library API rather than a CLI (use libatm instead)
- you need MIDI editing, playback, or DAW features
- you want a GUI music composition tool

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: cli, file-system, data-generation
- domain: files, legal, developer-tools
- platform: cli, cross-platform, windows
- tags: midi, music-generation, melody-generation, rust, creative-commons, public-domain, copyright, automation, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- allthemusicllc/atm-cli (main) score 70

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:39.582803+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:38:12.101202+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/allthemusicllc/atm-cli (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:39.582803+00:00, sha 0fd327ed3ad6)
  - homepage: http://allthemusic.info (fetched 2026-08-29T11:51:04.236910+00:00, sha c16b554a4636)
  - site_page: https://allthemusic.info/faqs (fetched 2026-08-29T11:51:04.239732+00:00, sha 2d7b94bc358b)
  - site_page: https://allthemusic.info/press (fetched 2026-08-29T11:51:04.244164+00:00, sha 6ea94063853e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.