Atte writes:
| On Friday 15 June 2001 11:20, Phil Taylor wrote:
| > I could equally claim that BarFly is the de facto standard on the grounds
| > that it runs on the platform which is the de facto standard for music
| > production
|
| I didn't know BarFly ran on Linux :-)

Maybe it doesn't now, but if it runs on the  latest  Mac  OS/X,  it's
only  one  small  step  to  linux.  Now if we could persuade Apple to
open-source its code, so the rest of us could start augmenting it ...

One of my favorite test cases for music software is the tune at:

http://ecf-guest.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/Intl/tune/JovanoJovanke_D.abc
http://ecf-guest.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/Intl/tune/JovanoJovanke_E.abc

Most commercial music software flunks this test rather badly. And, of
course, I'd also expect any good software to be able to transpose the
first to the second.  But I get disappointed a lot.  Now if we didn't
have  to  wait for the nice folks at Apple to understand why we might
want such strange things ...

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