Klarinet Archive - Posting 000076.txt from 2009/10

From: William Foss <billfoss47@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] music writing program
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:49:53 -0400

Again, I state that the FREE Finale Reader will read ANY Finale .MUS
file.

Bill Foss
U.S. Army Retired
USC Aiken, Woodwind Professor
Director of Bands, Aiken Prep

On Oct 5, 2009, at 7:06 PM, Karl Krelove wrote:

> The other problem is that you'd have to have saved the files in ETF
> format
> to begin with while you still had a working copy of Finale. Most
> people only
> save their Finale files in .mus format. Fred's Finale version is, I
> think he
> said, no longer operable on his current (OSX) machine. So the
> ability to
> read .etf files is not much advantage unless you have Finale
> available (in
> which case you may as well keep using it) or had the foresight to
> save in
> .etf format all along (unusual).
>
>
> Karl
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Joseph Fasel [mailto:jhfasel@-----.com]
>> Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 6:32 PM
>> To: klarinet@-----.org
>> Subject: Re: [kl] music writing program
>>
>> Oliver,
>>
>> Actually, I don't know that this is the case, although I thought I
>> had
>> read somewhere that this is the purpose of etf, i.e., to produce
>> files
>> that can be read by any version of Finale. At least, etf is an open,
>> documented format, so one has some hope of dealing with troublesome
>> elements somehow.
>>
>> Looking at the man page for etf2ly, I see that it converts a subset
>> of
>> the etf format to Lilypond, meaning that it may ignore some elements
>> it doesn't understand. Thus, one has to do fix-up after conversion,
>> but that's to be expected anyway.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --Joe
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.edu>
>> wrote:
>>> Wow! I had no idea. The implication here is that Finale .etf files
>> are not
>>> backward incompatible as are the .mus files.
>>> That is, Finale 2008 will not read a Finale 2009 .mus file.
>>>
>>> Are you suggesting that Lilypond will read an .etf file written by
>> any
>>> version of Finale? If so, that's very important news.
>>>
>>> Oliver
>>>
>>> At 02:01 PM 10/5/2009, you wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Try Lilypond:
>>>>
>>>> http://lilypond.org/
>>>>
>>>> It is open-source and thus free as in speech as well as in beer.
>>>> Furthermore, it produces excellent scores. Lilypond can
>>>> import .etf
>>>> files from Finale, though not .mus.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> --Joe
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Fred Jacobowitz
>> <fbjacobo@-----.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Here's one for the list:
>>>>>
>>>>> Can anyone recommend an inexpensive (possibly freeware?) music
>> notation
>>>>> program? I have Finale, but
>>>>> it is an older version which won't run on my Mac OSX. I'm really
>> p***ed
>>>>> off,
>>>>> but I don't use it enough to warrant paying hundreds of dollars
>> for the
>>>>> latest Finale upgrade, which has way too many features I'll never
>> use.
>>>>> Basically all I'm doing is lead sheets and basic arrangements. Not
>> even
>>>>> using MIDI!
>>>>>
>>>>> So the multi-part question is: 1. can anyone recommend a simple
>>>>> mac-compatible program?
>>>>> 2. It would be a plus if it could read my old Finale files. Can
>> any
>>>>> non-Finale programs read Finale files?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanx all.
>>>>>
>>>>> Fred Jacobowitz
>>>>>
>>>>> CASE CLOSED Musical Instrument Case Repair Service
>>>>> Kol Haruach Klezmer Band
>>>>> Ebony and Ivory Duo
>>>>>
>>>>> You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
>>>>> ~Doug Floyd
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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