Re: [Finale] Noteflight

2010-03-31 Thread David W. Fenton
On 31 Mar 2010 at 7:39, dhbailey wrote: > It's amazing but more and more so-called educational > professionals that are unfortunately in charge of higher > education (and all education in the U.S.) are equating > information with knowledge, and so they figure that if the > information is made

Re: [Finale] Noteflight

2010-03-31 Thread David W. Fenton
On 31 Mar 2010 at 7:36, dhbailey wrote: > David W. Fenton wrote: > > On 30 Mar 2010 at 15:59, dhbailey wrote: > > > >> I won't use the internet for storing my > >> backups -- nothing's truly and verifiably secure on the > >> internet and nothing's to prevent some such company from > >> going o

Re: [Finale] Noteflight

2010-03-31 Thread David W. Fenton
On 31 Mar 2010 at 7:29, dhbailey wrote: > somebody's getting kickbacks for > this nonsense, I'm certain. Knowing what I know about academia, I doubt it. Either the chosen text is written by the professor teaching the course, or it's just the easiest/best fit for the department/professor. Aca

Re: [Finale] Noteflight

2010-03-31 Thread dhbailey
Chris Bell wrote: http://www.noteflight.com/ What do we think of this? I think it's great. I've used it a lot with my 12-15 year-old students, especially those at schools that do not have any budget for Finale or Sibelius. It's free, online (which for some kids, makes it 'cooler'' to use).

Re: [Finale] Noteflight

2010-03-31 Thread Matthew Gmail
Musescore is free, x-platform and is pretty good to boot. I've set it as the standard software for my first year classes this year and it does the job well. Improving all the time too. Stopped students using cracked versions of Sibelius I think. Matthew Sent from my iPhone On 31/03/2010, a

Re: [Finale] Noteflight

2010-03-31 Thread Chris Bell
http://www.noteflight.com/ What do we think of this? I think it's great. I've used it a lot with my 12-15 year-old students, especially those at schools that do not have any budget for Finale or Sibelius. It's free, online (which for some kids, makes it 'cooler'' to use). / Cb ___

Re: [Finale] Noteflight

2010-03-31 Thread dhbailey
David W. Fenton wrote: On 30 Mar 2010 at 15:59, dhbailey wrote: I won't use the internet for storing my backups -- nothing's truly and verifiably secure on the internet and nothing's to prevent some such company from going out of business just at the time when I need to restore those files t

Re: [Finale] Noteflight

2010-03-31 Thread dhbailey
Christopher Smith wrote: On Tue Mar 30, at TuesdayMar 30 9:30 PM, John Howell wrote: And just this afternoon I learned from the prof. who's been teaching Apprec for many years that he's using a totally on-line course. It's from a company that handles everything on line, there's no textbook,

Re: [Finale] Noteflight

2010-03-31 Thread dhbailey
John Howell wrote: At 3:59 PM -0400 3/30/10, dhbailey wrote: Any program which doesn't reside on my computer and the data files of which I store in my own location separate from the vissicitudes of web businesses failing is not anything I'm interested in. For music files I certainly agree.

Re: [Finale] Noteflight

2010-03-30 Thread Christopher Smith
On Tue Mar 30, at TuesdayMar 30 9:30 PM, John Howell wrote: And just this afternoon I learned from the prof. who's been teaching Apprec for many years that he's using a totally on-line course. It's from a company that handles everything on line, there's no textbook, and the students just

Re: [Finale] Noteflight

2010-03-30 Thread David W. Fenton
On 30 Mar 2010 at 15:59, dhbailey wrote: > I won't use the internet for storing my > backups -- nothing's truly and verifiably secure on the > internet and nothing's to prevent some such company from > going out of business just at the time when I need to > restore those files to my hard drive

Re: [Finale] Noteflight

2010-03-30 Thread John Howell
At 3:59 PM -0400 3/30/10, dhbailey wrote: Any program which doesn't reside on my computer and the data files of which I store in my own location separate from the vissicitudes of web businesses failing is not anything I'm interested in. For music files I certainly agree. But I just ran into

Re: [Finale] Noteflight

2010-03-30 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Barbara Touburg wrote: I found this in a Dutch music magazine: http://www.noteflight.com/ What do we think of this? First impression (based only upon the page of the link, and cursory perusal of the terms of use): it's an application of cloud computing applied to music scores. The software

Re: [Finale] Noteflight

2010-03-30 Thread dhbailey
Barbara Touburg wrote: I found this in a Dutch music magazine: http://www.noteflight.com/ What do we think of this? Barbara ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale Any program which doesn't reside on

[Finale] Noteflight

2010-03-30 Thread Barbara Touburg
I found this in a Dutch music magazine: http://www.noteflight.com/ What do we think of this? Barbara ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Noteflight

2009-10-29 Thread dhbailey
Dan Rupert wrote: Any listers have experience have experience with Noteflight? http://www.noteflight.com/ Any reason I shouldn't recommend it to a friend who wants to post a few simple compositions on his website without spending any money? I've only spent a few minutes w/it but it seems l

[Finale] Noteflight

2009-10-29 Thread Dan Rupert
Any listers have experience have experience with Noteflight? http://www.noteflight.com/ Any reason I shouldn't recommend it to a friend who wants to post a few simple compositions on his website without spending any money? I've only spent a few minutes w/it but it seems like a really cool pro