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by jrethorst
24 Nov 2024, 22:12
Forum: News - Questions - Suggestions
Topic: The End of FINALE
Replies: 43
Views: 43066

Re: The End of FINALE

MuseScore is rapidly becoming the de facto standard for digital sheet music. Are we seeing more Finale users migrate to Musescore than to Dorico? Does Musescore have much more functionality than Dorico SE? More than Dorico Elements? ($99 shouldn't slow down a serious user of a notation program, and...
by jrethorst
16 Nov 2024, 22:19
Forum: News - Questions - Suggestions
Topic: The End of FINALE
Replies: 43
Views: 43066

Re: The End of FINALE

Where is Sibelius in all of this? Have they been applying band-aids on top of band-aids?
by jrethorst
16 Nov 2024, 22:16
Forum: News - Questions - Suggestions
Topic: The End of FINALE
Replies: 43
Views: 43066

Re: The End of FINALE

Russian money backed Musescore -- interesting! Government? Oligarchs? Mafia? I wonder what they wanted, since it's hard to justify investment in a free program.
by jrethorst
19 Sep 2024, 21:49
Forum: News - Questions - Suggestions
Topic: The End of FINALE
Replies: 43
Views: 43066

Re: The End of FINALE

Nice explanation — thank you.
by jrethorst
18 Sep 2024, 20:38
Forum: News - Questions - Suggestions
Topic: The End of FINALE
Replies: 43
Views: 43066

Re: The End of FINALE

I understand that the code was a mess, and that the move to Colorado cost MM some people who understood the architecture. But would a total rewrite actually have been impossible? It it would serve thousands of users, many professional, some with decades of files, who would be willing to pay for an u...
by jrethorst
18 Sep 2024, 00:29
Forum: News - Questions - Suggestions
Topic: The End of FINALE
Replies: 43
Views: 43066

Re: The End of FINALE

I would suggest MM to remove all licensing, and make the software open-source, someone might just keep it running.
_Very_ good idea.
by jrethorst
14 Aug 2024, 21:22
Forum: Digital Notation Tools
Topic: Control Shape and Position of Windows on Mac
Replies: 18
Views: 10052

Re: Control Shape and Position of Windows on Mac

> You may be missing out on Security Updates soon, though.

This matters.
by jrethorst
07 Aug 2024, 16:40
Forum: News - Questions - Suggestions
Topic: Security certificate expired
Replies: 17
Views: 10328

Re: Security certificate expired

Same. Opera on Mac.
by jrethorst
25 Jun 2024, 23:01
Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
Topic: publishers' "house style" manuals
Replies: 17
Views: 8249

Re: publishers' "house style" manuals

OCTO wrote: 24 Jun 2024, 13:16 I have Boosey, if interested.
Yes please.

John R.
by jrethorst
21 Apr 2024, 02:02
Forum: Type and Font Design
Topic: Feedback on music typeface
Replies: 7
Views: 20889

Re: Feedback on music typeface

Nice font!