Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > It occurs to me, too, that Sibelius, in order to obtain the > competitive upgrade requires you to send them your MakeMusic! > distribution disk.
That's not how I read it. It says on Sibelius's web site: "You must provide proof of ownership of Finale, Encore, or Mosaic by mailing the first and second pages of your table of contents in your user manual or send us your original program CD." So you can send a page or two from your manual, *or* the CD. By contrast, on MM's web site, it says this: "Mail the form, your Master Disk from a qualifying program and send to MakeMusic!" So to get a crossgrade to Finale, you *do* have to send the CD. You've got it all backwards, Noel! (And all this stuff about the ETF file format being great because it's published: unless you're an accomplished programmer, you're never going to be able to make sense of the ETF format. Have you looked at one latetly? Not exactly human-readable! And where exactly are the details of the format published? Can you point me to a web site where I can download the details of the format? If the information *is* freely-available, it's not well-publicised! A much better format for storing data from notation applications in an application-independent way would be something like MusicXML. Both Finale and Sibelius have export filters available for MusicXML as plug-ins, and because MusicXML *is* a published format and more or less human-readable to boot, I'd say it's much more suitable than ETF. I don't work for the MusicXML folks, by the way.) Best, -WR -- _______________________________________________ NEW! Lycos Dating Search. The only place to search multiple dating sites at once. http://datingsearch.lycos.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
