On Dec 10, 2010, at 4:57 PM, John Howell wrote: > > Yes, but that concatenates two separate items (as David pointed out correctly > that I had done): > > The first is the need for a universal format, not individual, proprietary > formats that are incompatible. And with all respect to Recordare's good > work, the NEED for Music XML to translate from one proprietary format to > another (and the expense of buying still another program to do so) simply > underscores the problem.
Not necessarily, If we are talking about just theater shows. Lets take that. Ok, so, you want to do say Aladdin. Ok. And you have some sort of device that all the orchestra members are going to use. Ok. Simply download their Application. Log > > The second is the need for networking rather than for individual, standalone > units, with which I completely agree since the concept won't really work to > its potential without it, but which inevitably will present the problems of > compatibility, setup, and operation that you do not feel are worth worrying > about. . Hence which is why you get all the same units, say....oh I dunno, iPads, and they all work fine together. I just don't see why there is this fear of networking.....like you need to be some sort of Voodoo priest to get everything to work. And I focus in on Apple because they have a history of having its software work across all its devices. Like Applications made for the iPod from 2 years ago work on the iPod from today. There are no radical hardware differences in the devices that run the software......everything just works. > All THAT takes is a copy machine, of course. And I'm not sure what kind of > detective work the three major rental agencies actually do to track down > non-paying performances, but our own community organization simply will NOT > try to dodge the legal requirements to save a few bucks on rentals and > royalties. Well, you also aren't supposed to make videos or record audio of performances but YouTube is littered with them... > Perhaps, but I read Eric's notes as advocating a notation program as the > primary program for feeding files to the iPads. As an example, I've been > using a proprietary program called ExamView this semester to built the exams > for a couple of my courses, and it works pretty well, but saves its files in > its own format which Word cannot read. (Or if it can, I don't know how, and > would require TECHNICAL SUPPORT to figure it out!) Today a student asked > whether I could send him a previous exam for review, and because of that > proprietary limitation I could not. Is that really a technical support issue or just that the program doesn't allow it? I mean, before you start using something should you know what it can and can not do? I mean, if I go out and get ProTools say......and then I come to find out that it won't use this really cool Audio Units plugin that I have. Is that something I should have been aware of from the start or is it something I should have known about before getting the program........ I dunno, I think a lot of this discussion is focusing on assuming there will be networking problems or some other technical barrier that is insurmountable. I just don't see that barrier at all. Only time I have seen network problems is when the IT staff had something jacked up because they had no clue how to run anything......of course this was a State College so........could explain something...... _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
