Comments on: Why Music Notation is Free Now http://joeberkovitz.com/blog/2009/02/26/why-music-notation-is-free-now/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:04:58 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: joe http://joeberkovitz.com/blog/2009/02/26/why-music-notation-is-free-now/comment-page-1/#comment-27827 joe Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:01:09 +0000 http://joeberkovitz.com/blog/?p=157#comment-27827 I completely agree with your point about freedom implying total access to one's information in a documented and supported format. Our next release will introduce the capability of export to MIDI (which can be optimized for import into other notation programs), and a subsequent release will be able to export to MusicXML. We hope that these improvements will address this question. <br/><br/> A free service should not be a prison for information. And we do intend to keep Noteflight free (as in free beer) for individual use. It's not some kind of promotional, temporary thing. I completely agree with your point about freedom implying total access to one’s information in a documented and supported format. Our next release will introduce the capability of export to MIDI (which can be optimized for import into other notation programs), and a subsequent release will be able to export to MusicXML. We hope that these improvements will address this question.

A free service should not be a prison for information. And we do intend to keep Noteflight free (as in free beer) for individual use. It’s not some kind of promotional, temporary thing.

]]> By: Gerd http://joeberkovitz.com/blog/2009/02/26/why-music-notation-is-free-now/comment-page-1/#comment-27826 Gerd Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:43:48 +0000 http://joeberkovitz.com/blog/?p=157#comment-27826 Noteflight looks very promising. And at the moment, it's free as in free beer. When I checked it, there has been no way to get my own sheet music on my own computer as a file in a documented and supported music notation format. So noteflight is not free as in free speech. If noteflight decide to shut their service down, I have no chance to use my own work any more. There is something missing. If you want something that is free as in free speech, you need your own files in a documented and supported music notation format. Gerd Noteflight looks very promising. And at the moment, it’s free as in free beer.

When I checked it, there has been no way to get my own sheet music on my own computer as a file in a documented and supported music notation format. So noteflight is not free as in free speech.
If noteflight decide to shut their service down, I have no chance to use my own work any more.

There is something missing. If you want something that is free as in free speech, you need your own files in a documented and supported music notation format.

Gerd

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