>>Eric> it still has problem with the sound, 

>Have you tried the latest version (that just came out last week)?
 I
>still have problems playing in Linux, but I didn't hit any
problems on
>Windows in the small amount of testing I did there.  

Of course I did :) I'll always check new version of any program.
For the sound, on MSwindows I have the java version recommended,
and I have sound, but it's not fluid at all, music slows down and
then speeds up. 
It may come from my computer that is not powerfull enought (350
Mhz), I don't know, but if it's the case, so many pple may have
the same pb.
I know AbcMus and Abacus are quickly converting the abc to midi
before reading the midi file, so there is not this sort of
problem. (Will it be possible on Abacus in the future to play
(roughtly) notes when you enter them ?)
I've downloaded on a friend's computer who have the adsl the
newest java from sun for windows and linux. When I'll grab them,
I'll try skink with this, it will maybe better.
Otherwise, I do appreciate much the fact it doesn't stop any
longer for code it doesn't understand, so we can see the other
tunes (and often the tune incriminated if this is a minor error it
detects.) It even helped me to find syntax error in my tunes.

Concerning Iabc, it's the same, it works better now it don't
process all the tunes in a tunebook, but processes only the tune
we want to display. (Abacus should do the same, since it's
instable with some code it doesn't understand, but on the other
hand it's less sensitive than skink was)
Someone said there was a pb with the time signature for iabc, it
is always 4/4, it's strange because there was not this problem in
the previous version.

For both Iabc and Abacus, the fact we have to use a subwindow is
less powerfull than the list in Skink, this one is always
displayed. I've just seen we can even browse the tune with the up
and down arrows, so it's a pleasure to use it for this purpose.
You can select several continuous tunes with shift, or individual
tunes with ctrl, it's very conveniant, and then you can make a
sort of playlist for printing, playing etc.. On Abacus it's true
it's quick to open the tunelist with ctrl+o , but if you select a
tune with the arrows, you can't validate with enter...

I'll test Iabc on Linux as soon as possible, but on MSwindows it
has the habit to crash badly the whole system, often when you open
a second file after a first one, so it's better to close Iabc
between two files (I've tested Iabc on 2 computer with Mswindows98
and it's the same pb)


Back to Abacus, I've just tryied to create a tune with it, and it
crashed (I made a mistake and entered Q:1/48=120 instead of 1/8)
so I've lost my tune :( Could it save the abc tune before crashing
?



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