[Finale] OT: OS X problem
I am having a little problem with OS X. Everytime I restart, or log out and log in again my Finder windows seem to have lost their preferences. They are always larger than before (and larger again when I restart once more) and they display large icons instead of lists etc. Is there something I need to reset to get this back to normal? I have repaired permissions and checked the HD, that didn't help. Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] OT: Websites with music (audio)
Dear List Members, I'm currently teaching a Sound and Music for Multimedia course, and would like to show the students some examples of how music and sound has been integrated into websites. So if anyone has a website that they would like me to plug, please feel free to let me know! (Or if they know of any other sites that are particularly good or bad...) Thanks for any input received, Matthew --- Matthew Hindson Composer http://www.hindson.com Artistic Director, 2006 Aurora Festival ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] OT: OS X problem
I am having a little problem with OS X. Everytime I restart, or log out and log in again my Finder windows seem to have lost their preferences. They are always larger than before (and larger again when I restart once more) and they display large icons instead of lists etc. Is there something I need to reset to get this back to normal? I have repaired permissions and checked the HD, that didn't help. Johannes -- I have this problem as well. From what I've researched on the net, the problem originates from opening the top folder while you are in system 9 and changing the view settings. (I did this when the disc was in target mode.) Do this just once and the view settings in OS X won't stick. The so-called solutions involve using Terminal and they don't give you the ability to change settings to something else in the future and make them stick. (The solutions look complicated.) I'll try to solve this annoyance on my computer when I gather some more gumption. In the meantime, you can find what has been written on the subject by googling OS X view settings stick (without the quotes). Here is a sampling of what I've found: http://www.personal.kent.edu/~blukens/viewoptions.html http://www.osxfaq.com/dailytips/04-2002/04-30.ws http://www.derman.com/FolderControl/FC-Overview.html If anyone knows of an easier solution, I'd love to hear about it. -Randolph Peters ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
RE: [Finale] OT: Websites with music (audio)
Hi Matthew- I'll leave it to you and your students as to whether mine is a good or bad implementation.. My homepage autoloads a midi file (www.harrockhall.com) and in the online store each piece of music's Read more page does the same Bandwidth costs are the primary reason my site is so elementary at this point. I'll soon be changing the format, and would like to hear back from you what you find to be the best. Hoping this finds you well, as I am- Cecil Rigby [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) http://www.harrockhall.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] OT: Websites with music (audio)
At 08:52 AM 10/18/04 -0400, dhbailey wrote:
If you are teaching how to integrate music and sound with websites,
please teach them:
2) have a clearly visible, easy to locate, clickable OFF butto for those
of us who hate web-sites that force their music on us;
3) program any music inclusion so that visitors don't have to download
any special plug-ins to hear the music -- nothing makes me leave a
website faster than being told that I have to download something else to
fully enjoy the web-site.
There is, of course, a huge course in proper, polite, and effective use of
web media. But David brings up some important points that I'd like to expand.
Regarding #2: *Never* autoplay media files or pop up windows with them.
This breaks accessibility badly, so anyone browsing with speech output will
be interrupted and (because of the new window) lost in navigation. And I'll
add here that one should use standard tags for media links; Javascript and
Flash tags are not cross-browser cross-operating system compatible, and
security risks besides (until recently, Flash was not accessible, either).
A metafile ('streaming') link and a download link for dialup users are
really important if you don't want to lost possible auditions of music from
dialup users as well as those using palmtops and slower networks.
Regarding #3: Plugins are tricky. It used to be that browsers and operating
systems didn't have any plugins shipped with them -- no Midi, no AVI, no
Quicktime, no MP3, etc. Now they do have lots of media players installed,
but the occasional plugin is still needed for specialized items. There's
Scorch for Sibelius, for example, and with the media wars, some don't ship
with RealAudio. Using standard file types will always help make a site useful.
The key for music sites especially is never to force content on the
visitor, and never to use supposedly clever methods (scripts, Flash, etc.)
where standard methods are the most accessible. If you can do something on
the server (vs. in the browser), that's the way to go. Make it easy and
fast for the site visitor.
Dennis
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Re: [Finale] OT: OS X problem
I am having a little problem with OS X. Everytime I restart, or log out and log in again my Finder windows seem to have lost their preferences. They are always larger than before (and larger again when I restart once more) and they display large icons instead of lists etc. Is there something I need to reset to get this back to normal? I have repaired permissions and checked the HD, that didn't help. Johannes --At 8:47 AM -0500 10/18/04, Randolph Peters wrote: I have this problem as well. From what I've researched on the net, the problem originates from opening the top folder while you are in system 9 and changing the view settings. [snip] http://www.derman.com/FolderControl/FC-Overview.html Just one thing about my previous note on this subject. The program I listed above may have its merits, but it does not solve the view settings not sticking problem. -Randolph Peters ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] 8. RE: OT: Websites with music (audio)
I have quite a bit of my music on my website...MP3's and PDF's of almost every piece www.vosbein.com - Dear List Members, I'm currently teaching a Sound and Music for Multimedia course, and would like to show the students some examples of how music and sound has been integrated into websites. So if anyone has a website that they would like me to plug, please feel free to let me know! (Or if they know of any other sites that are particularly good or bad...) Thanks for any input received, Matthew ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] 8. RE: OT: Websites with music (audio)
Hello Matthew, At my website http://www.rogerjulia.com you will find more than 30 minutes of MP3 files, clasified in orchestral music and non orchestral music. I hope that it is of your interest, Roger Dear List Members, I'm currently teaching a Sound and Music for Multimedia course, and would like to show the students some examples of how music and sound has been integrated into websites. So if anyone has a website that they would like me to plug, please feel free to let me know! (Or if they know of any other sites that are particularly good or bad...) Thanks for any input received, Matthew ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] OT: Websites with music (audio)
On Oct 18, 2004, at 5:52 AM, dhbailey wrote: If you are teaching how to integrate music and sound with websites, please teach them: 1) make the volume fairly quiet so it doesn't blast the neighbors awake at 1 in the morning; 2) have a clearly visible, easy to locate, clickable OFF butto for those of us who hate web-sites that force their music on us; 3) program any music inclusion so that visitors don't have to download any special plug-ins to hear the music -- nothing makes me leave a website faster than being told that I have to download something else to fully enjoy the web-site. Amen to all three of these. With regard to the third, less than a year ago I was using an ancient computer which could only handle a fairly old browser. On that computer, most sites which gave me the you must download window crashed my system. It was because of things like that that I was extremely careful exploring the Web on that computer, basically not going to any site unless I knew ahead of time what it was. The more general rule, of course, is that when designing any aspect of a website, don't assume that the user has the same system that you do. All the books preach that, but it still seems like most amateur and even some professional designers pay no heed. mdl ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] OT: OS X problem
http://www.personal.kent.edu/~blukens/viewoptions.html http://www.osxfaq.com/dailytips/04-2002/04-30.ws These two are good links I thinkthe second one is probably the quickest way to solve the problem but I'd rather not post how to log in as root on the list as doing so and then doing something wrong can be a major problem. But if anyone wants to know how and is willing to proceed AT THEIR OWN RISK, you can e-mail me off list and I'll tell you how to log in and out as a root user without going through the command line (terminal) Regarding this first link. Editing a plist is a rather benign thing that you can actually fool around with if you want to. The worst case scenario is that you mess up the plist and have to throw it away in which case a new one will be recreated automatically with default settings...plist files are preferences. You can also throw away DS_Store files. There are two ways to to this. You can do a search for the files..command F...Criteria 1 is name contains .ds Criteria 2 is Visibility is invisible files...You can then throw these files away once you know which one you want to throw away. A CAVEAT...don't do searches for invisible files unless you know what you are doing and why you are doing it. You can also mess up your machine throwing away the wrong invisible file. But getting rid of DS_Store files is O.K. Finally, there is a program called cocktail that is basically a GUI for command line (terminal) commands. It is more sophisticated than the OS X GUI itself but easier than logging into the terminal: http://www.macosxcocktail.com/ You can also get rid of DS_Store files using this program. I use this program all the time to initiate system maintenence, cache cleaning, permission repairing etc. One can run it in pilot mode safely without having a lot of computer experience too. I believe it costs around $12.00 US (P.S. This is not my program and I don't get any monetary benefit from suggesting it...I just really like it!) Take care, Karen -- Karen Guthery [EMAIL PROTECTED] ichat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] TOOL BAR
Dear Listers, This is driving me nuts, and I have been hassling with this all through 2004, and now the same thing is true of 2005 version of MacFin. I like to have the Tool Bar in a single strip across the top of the screen, using the Contemporary palette. I like the tools in a certain order, and change them to what I want by dragging them to their preferred positions while hold down Shift/Control. Nothing I do will retain the way I configure it when I restart Finale and reopen a file. Extenuating circumstances: I can get a single strip only if I switch to Classic palette. That will stay and appear the next time I open Finale. But the preferred position order will not. If, before I close the file, I change back to Contemporary palette, it will not stay there and the order will be back to a default setting. Also, I have always been important to Save the file and also, under Edit/Save Special, do Save Prefs. To no avail. Any solutions come to mind? All the best, KIM Richmond ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
