Hi John, > As I recall, it was Coda who boycotted the effort > to come up with a universally compatible file > format, something like MIDI. And to be fair, it > might have been impossible to do, but I suspect > that it was a marketing decision at a time when > Finale was unquestionably on top.
Coda was the first major music notation editor to adopt the MusicXML format, back in Finale 2003. MusicXML just celebrated its 10th anniversary, and MakeMusic CEO Ron Raup is quoted in our press release: <http://www.recordare.com/company/about-us/press-releases/recordare-ce lebrates-musicxml-s-10th-anniversary> Coda did drop out of the earlier NIFF efforts. NIFF had a lot of technical problems. It used a visual model of music representation, and had no direct representation for basic musical concepts like pitch. It matched the way some music scanners work internally, but was a poor match for applications like Finale that also care about playback. Best regards, Michael Good Recordare LLC _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
