Re: [Finale] OT: Music Folders

I got mine for my big band at Sam Ash... About $8.00 each... Drjazz00... --- Darcy James Argue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Anyone have any suggestions for a source of > inexpensive (i.e., > cardboard) music folders (or something that could > serve that purpose) > -- that *doesn

Re: [Finale] Compatability with XP Service Pack 2 (SP2)?

On 23 Mar 2005 at 18:03, Richard Yates wrote: > > Finale will run just fine on SP2. However, if you have any spyware > > on your computer before you start the SP2 install the consequences > > can be disastrous. You should run Ad-Aware Personal from > > http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ to make sure your

RE: [Finale] Compatability with XP Service Pack 2 (SP2)?

On 23 Mar 2005 at 16:06, Lee Actor wrote: > > [...] > > > > Why anyone would put up with pop-ups (or use a browser that requires > > add-on software to prevent pop-ups) I can't imagine, especially with > > all the publicity the alternative browsers have been getting. > > > > Since XP SP2, IE6 has

Re: [Finale] Compatability with XP Service Pack 2 (SP2)?

> Finale will run just fine on SP2. However, if you have any spyware on > your computer before you start the SP2 install the consequences can be > disastrous. You should run Ad-Aware Personal from > http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ to make sure your machine is clear before > upgrading the OS to SP2. I

RE: [Finale] Compatability with XP Service Pack 2 (SP2)?

> [...] > > Why anyone would put up with pop-ups (or use a browser that requires > add-on software to prevent pop-ups) I can't imagine, especially with > all the publicity the alternative browsers have been getting. > Since XP SP2, IE6 has been completely resistant to pop-ups. In this respect, it

Re: [Finale] More on copy protection - Finale 2004 licenses

Matthew Hindson wrote: So then I ring the friendly, supportive distributor to try to get a replacement code for Finale 2004. However because I'm in the system as having upgraded to Finale 2005, apparently it's impossible to give me a new key for Finale 2004. So now my copy of Finale 2004 is un

Re: [Finale] More on copy protection - Finale 2004 licenses

On 23 Mar 2005, at 5:52 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: I haven't read the upgrade EULA, but that's the way it works for upgrades to Microsoft products -- the upgrade voids your license for the old version. That's not how it works for Finale -- never has been. (And there would a full-scale user revolt i

Re: [Finale] More on copy protection - Finale 2004 licenses

On 24 Mar 2005 at 8:06, Matthew Hindson Fastmail Account wrote: > At the risk of seeming unnecessarily incendiary (I'm not! Promise!), I > wonder if anyone else has come across this issue before. > > I recently upgraded to Finale 2005, and also got a new G5. I used the > automatic transfer featu

Re: [Finale] More on copy protection - Finale 2004 licenses

dhbailey / 05.3.23 / 05:34 PM wrote: >Matthew is in Australia -- perhaps all activation codes have to go >through the local distributor. Coda has been responding to auth issues via email to me rather quickly, and I have been very impressed. I move many computers around, y'know :-) -- - Hir

Re: [Finale] More on copy protection - Finale 2004 licenses

Darcy James Argue wrote: Hey Matthew, Hold on a minute: So then I ring the friendly, supportive distributor Why did you contact the distributor? What do they have to do with anything? To the best of my knowlege, Coda handles all activation codes directly. Your distributor shouldn't have anyth

Re: [Finale] More on copy protection - Finale 2004 licenses

Hey Matthew, Hold on a minute: So then I ring the friendly, supportive distributor Why did you contact the distributor? What do they have to do with anything? To the best of my knowlege, Coda handles all activation codes directly. Your distributor shouldn't have anything to do with it, right?

Re: [Finale] More on copy protection - Finale 2004 licenses

On 23 Mar 2005, at 4:06 PM, Matthew Hindson Fastmail Account wrote: However because I'm in the system as having upgraded to Finale 2005, apparently it's impossible to give me a new key for Finale 2004. That's not true. I don't know who told you that, but that's absolutely not true. When I insta

Re: [Finale] OT: Music Folders

On 23 Mar 2005, at 4:50 PM, dhbailey wrote: www.jwpepper.com has what you're looking for. Yes, they do. THANK YOU, David! Cheers, - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [Finale] Incorrectly Printing Articulation (?)

John Howell wrote: At 4:38 AM + 3/23/05, John Bell wrote: PS On reflection, since you say the inverted A is beside both notes it's unlikely to be an articulation -- only one instance would appear in that case -- so unless my earlier suggestion of O for open string is wrong it must me someth

[Finale] More on copy protection - Finale 2004 licenses

At the risk of seeming unnecessarily incendiary (I'm not! Promise!), I wonder if anyone else has come across this issue before. I recently upgraded to Finale 2005, and also got a new G5. I used the automatic transfer feature of the G5 to swap all of my files and applications from the eMac to t

Re: [Finale] OT: Music Folders

Hi Darcy, Try these guys They have a heavy cardboard folder with pockets approx. 11 X 14 in size for around $7.00 each...they have 12 in stock and can order more if you need them. Ask for Jim. This is one of the places I get my music supplies and they have alw

Re: [Finale] OT: Music Folders

www.jwpepper.com has what you're looking for. Darcy James Argue wrote: Hello, Anyone have any suggestions for a source of inexpensive (i.e., cardboard) music folders (or something that could serve that purpose) -- that *doesn't* have some company's logo splashed all over it? An example of what

Re: [Finale] GPO

Dean, I dunno where you got that idea, but it ain't so. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 23 Mar 2005, at 4:44 PM, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: I thought GPO was not available for Mac users. DEan On Mar 23, 2005, at 11:49 AM, Chuck Israels wrote: I am experiencing a minor GPO issue: I sta

Re: [Finale] GPO

I thought GPO was not available for Mac users. DEan On Mar 23, 2005, at 11:49 AM, Chuck Israels wrote: I am experiencing a minor GPO issue: I start GPO before opening Finale (2005 Mac - OS X) but Finale says it cannot find the expected GPO Studio 1 through 4 that I have defined as Finale's MIDI o

Re: [Finale] editing score and parts

On 23 Mar 2005 at 14:51, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > To my question: > >If one uses ~.etf as the primary storage format for Finale data > >files, one will not lose access to the data in the files. . .. > > David Fenton wrote > >How successful is the import of ETF files in these other programs? > >Ho

Re: [Finale] Re: OT spyware

On 23 Mar 2005, at 4:23 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 23 Mar 2005 at 14:16, Darcy James Argue wrote: Spyware on the Macintosh is not a problem. But they *could* be Sure, it *could* be, David, but right now it isn't. For example, RealPlayer for Windows installs spyware as part of its installation.

Re: [Finale] Re: OT spyware

On 23 Mar 2005 at 14:50, A-NO-NE Music wrote: > Phil Daley / 05.3.23 / 02:30 PM wrote: > > >It will stay that way as long as Mac has a minuscule % of the market > >space. > > I am sorry. It might be my English problem, but I don't understand > your point of this post. > > By the way, you shoul

Re: [Finale] OT: Music Folders

Hey gang, I should have added in the original post that I *definitely* don't want a solution that requires me personally to do any work whatsoever. So stuff like cutting and folding poster board to make a bunch of individual folders is right out. It's not that I don't appreciate the ingenuity

Re: [Finale] Re: OT spyware

On 23 Mar 2005 at 11:27, Chuck Israels wrote: > I know you guys would know. Nice to know this is not a Mac problem > for those of us on this side of things. There are two classes of Windows spyware: 1. the things that are installed without your knowledge because of vulnerabilities in Internet

Re: [Finale] Re: OT spyware

On 23 Mar 2005 at 14:16, Darcy James Argue wrote: > Spyware on the Macintosh is not a problem. But they *could* be, as much of the spyware on Windows machine is installed along with programs that one desires to install (like Kazaa or WinAmp). > Cookies are not the same thing as spyware. But t

Re: [Finale] Compatability with XP Service Pack 2 (SP2)?

On 23 Mar 2005 at 13:38, Phil Daley wrote: > My daughter brought me two computers to upgrade. > > Hers was fine, although I had never seen so many "spyware/adware" on > one system before, over 500. What does this number mean? Is this the number that programs like AdAware give for the count of

Re: [Finale] Compatability with XP Service Pack 2 (SP2)?

On 23 Mar 2005 at 10:26, Brad Beyenhof wrote: > I'm actually not exactly sure, but that's what Leo Laporte has always > said to callers on his technology radio show. I made sure to clean out > every trace of spyware before upgrading, so I don't know what might > have happened if I hadn't. Why wou

Re: [Finale] editing score and parts

On 23 Mar 2005 at 5:50, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > David Bailey wrote: [] > > But copy protection isn't what has done Mosaic in, it's the > > advancing OS which has left the old code in the dust and the > > developper of Mosaic decided to pull the plug on the program. > > Nothing will be able to

Re: [Finale] OT: Music Folders

Darcy James Argue wrote: Hello, Anyone have any suggestions for a source of inexpensive (i.e., cardboard) music folders (or something that could serve that purpose) -- that *doesn't* have some company's logo splashed all over it? Probably not. The folders are probably printed before they are c

Re: [Finale] editing score and parts

On 23 Mar 2005 at 6:13, dhbailey wrote: > As for Dennis' fear of losing access to Finale, I agree, it's not > paranoid. But copy protection isn't what has done Mosaic in, it's the > advancing OS which has left the old code in the dust and the > developper of Mosaic decided to pull the plug on the

Re: [Finale] editing score and parts

To my question: If one uses ~.etf as the primary storage format for Finale data files, one will not lose access to the data in the files. . .. David Fenton wrote How successful is the import of ETF files in these other programs? How usable are the programs themselves? Do they lack capabilities

Re: [Finale] GPO & 2006

On Mar 23, 2005, at 11:58 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi Chuck, We were just talking about this last week -- you must have missed it. Hi Darcy, Could have happened while I was away playing in Spain (always fun to be in that country). The scuttlebutt from people at MM is that 2006 is pretty w

Re: [Finale] OT: Music Folders

At 3/23/2005 03:21 PM, John Howell wrote: >At 3:07 PM -0500 3/23/05, Darcy James Argue wrote: >>It is for me, which is why I bothered posting my question the first >>place. If I didn't think it was a big deal, I would have just >>bought the Leblanc folders, wouldn't I? >> >Diff'rent strokes. I wa

Re: [Finale] OT: Music Folders

On Mar 23, 2005, at 3:21 PM, John Howell wrote: Obviously someone manufactures these folders, and they can probably be tracked down and you could order them unprinted, but I doubt that a manufacturer would be willing to ship in lots of fewer than a thousand, which is kind of overkill for your p

Re: [Finale] OT: Music Folders

At 3:07 PM -0500 3/23/05, Darcy James Argue wrote: On 23 Mar 2005, at 3:01 PM, John Howell wrote: You want inexpensive, you pay by providing them with advertising space. No big deal. It is for me, which is why I bothered posting my question the first place. If I didn't think it was a big deal,

Re: [Finale] OT: Music Folders

On 23 Mar 2005, at 3:01 PM, John Howell wrote: You want inexpensive, you pay by providing them with advertising space. No big deal. It is for me, which is why I bothered posting my question the first place. If I didn't think it was a big deal, I would have just bought the Leblanc folders, woul

Re: [Finale] Re: OT spyware

At 3/23/2005 02:50 PM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: >Phil Daley / 05.3.23 / 02:30 PM wrote: > >>It will stay that way as long as Mac has a minuscule % of the market space. > >I am sorry. It might be my English problem, but I don't understand your >point of this post. Virus writers only write viruses so th

Re: [Finale] OT: Music Folders

At 2:35 PM -0500 3/23/05, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hello, Anyone have any suggestions for a source of inexpensive (i.e., cardboard) music folders (or something that could serve that purpose) -- that *doesn't* have some company's logo splashed all over it? You want inexpensive, you pay by providi

Re: [Finale] GPO

Hi Chuck, We were just talking about this last week -- you must have missed it. This is a Finale 2005 bug. The best thing to turn off "Save Preferences on Quit" (if it's on) and then set the MIDI Output to "None" and manually save your prefs. This will avoid triggering the "Device not found" d

Re: [Finale] Re: OT spyware

Phil Daley / 05.3.23 / 02:30 PM wrote: >It will stay that way as long as Mac has a minuscule % of the market space. I am sorry. It might be my English problem, but I don't understand your point of this post. By the way, you should understand the problem on this subject is VBScript. It only af

[Finale] GPO

I am experiencing a minor GPO issue: I start GPO before opening Finale (2005 Mac - OS X) but Finale says it cannot find the expected GPO Studio 1 through 4 that I have defined as Finale's MIDI out. In Finale's MIDI setup menu, the GPO studios are italicized, however, there are new, non-italicized

[Finale] OT: Music Folders

Hello, Anyone have any suggestions for a source of inexpensive (i.e., cardboard) music folders (or something that could serve that purpose) -- that *doesn't* have some company's logo splashed all over it? An example of what I *don't* want: http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=home/search/d

Re: [Finale] editing score and parts

On 22 Mar 2005 at 22:52, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > If one uses ~.etf as the primary storage format for Finale data files, > one will not lose access to the data in the files. . .. How successful is the import of ETF files in these other programs? How usable are the programs themselves? Do they l

Re: [Finale] Re: OT spyware

At 3/23/2005 02:20 PM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: >Chuck Israels / 05.3.23 / 02:07 PM wrote: > >>So, if this is not too involved a subject, how do you find and get rid >>of spyware on your computer (Mac, OS 10), > >There is no known spyware to Mac, and it will stay that way, I'd think. It will stay that

Re: [Finale] Re: OT spyware

Thanks, I know you guys would know. Nice to know this is not a Mac problem for those of us on this side of things. The sun is shining and it's a beautiful Spring day in Bellingham. I rest easy. Chuck On Mar 23, 2005, at 11:16 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Chuck, Spyware on the Macintosh is n

Re: [Finale] editing score and parts

On 22 Mar 2005 at 22:39, John Howell wrote: > At 4:04 PM -0500 3/19/05, dhbailey wrote: > > > >There is a way to do what you want, it's just that Finale > >programmers haven't figured out how to do it. :-( > > > >My bet is the first notation software which does that (Sibelius, > >Finale or the n

Re: [Finale] Re: OT spyware

Chuck Israels / 05.3.23 / 02:07 PM wrote: >So, if this is not too involved a subject, how do you find and get rid >of spyware on your computer (Mac, OS 10), There is no known spyware to Mac, and it will stay that way, I'd think. On the other hand, on Windows side you need two things: Ad-Aware:

Re: [Finale] Re: OT spyware

At 3/23/2005 02:07 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: So, if this is not too involved a subject, how do you find and get rid of spyware on your computer (Mac, OS 10), and then how do you distinguish between spyware you don't want, and cookies that identify you on sites where you want auto log ins etc. The

Re: [Finale] Re: OT spyware

Chuck, Spyware on the Macintosh is not a problem. Cookies are not the same thing as spyware. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 23 Mar 2005, at 2:07 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: So, if this is not too involved a subject, how do you find and get rid of spyware on your computer (Mac, OS 10)

[Finale] Re: OT spyware

So, if this is not too involved a subject, how do you find and get rid of spyware on your computer (Mac, OS 10), and then how do you distinguish between spyware you don't want, and cookies that identify you on sites where you want auto log ins etc. If this is too involved a subject, a referral to

Re: [Finale] Compatability with XP Service Pack 2 (SP2)?

At 3/23/2005 01:26 PM, Brad Beyenhof wrote: >> However, if you have any spyware on >> your computer before you start the SP2 install the consequences can be >> disastrous. >> What sort of "disastrous" consequences could we expect to see? Oh, I missed this on it's first appearance. My daughter broug

Re: [Finale] Compatability with XP Service Pack 2 (SP2)?

I'm actually not exactly sure, but that's what Leo Laporte has always said to callers on his technology radio show. I made sure to clean out every trace of spyware before upgrading, so I don't know what might have happened if I hadn't. Brad On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 13:00:03 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wro

Re: [Finale] Compatability with XP Service Pack 2 (SP2)?

In a message dated 23/03/2005 14:57:08 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, if you have any spyware onyour computer before you start the SP2 install the consequences can bedisastrous. What sort of "disastrous" consequences could we expect to see?   All the best,   Lawre

Re: [Finale] OT Giant Steps

At 03:24 PM 3/22/05 -0500, Christopher Smith wrote: >For those who are fans of John Coltrane, check out this animation. So >simple, yet he really seems to hear the piece the way I think a lot of >jazz musicians might hear it. It's kind of like a Fantasia (the movie) >treatment for jazz nuts. >ht

[Finale] indep.time sig

Dear listers, Though I'm a Fiinale user since vs. 1.0, I'm confronted for years already with the following problem. I like to copy measures with an indep.time sig (say 6/8 in 2/4 or 12/8 in common time) to another staff. But the destination staff remains blank, even when the destination is also

Re: [Finale] OT Giant Steps

Thanks Christopher! I really enjoyed that! I'll be passing this along to many friends and cohorts, and I'm sure my wife will make good use of it as well. This will be perfect to play for her K-4 music classes! I don't think she's had John Coltrane as her "Star of the Week" yet, and this combini

Re: [Finale] Incorrectly Printing Articulation (?)

On Mar 23, 2005, at 9:43 AM, John Howell wrote: At 4:38 AM + 3/23/05, John Bell wrote: PS On reflection, since you say the inverted A is beside both notes it's unlikely to be an articulation -- only one instance would appear in that case -- so unless my earlier suggestion of O for open string

Re: [Finale] Staff List Question

"Force" -- as in, force the expression to appear even on a staff that is set *not* to display staff expressions. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 23 Mar 2005, at 10:18 AM, Neal Gittleman wrote: Hey... Here's something I've wondered about for years... Creating a staff list for staff

Re: [Finale] Wierd print bug

Carl, I recently had a similar problem printing 2-up on 17 X 11 paper on a Ricoh printer. In my case, however, only the second page was stopped short. My problem was with printer-memory, and after changing the setting from 1200 dpi to 600dpi, the part printed perfectly. Dalvin Boone - Ori

[Finale] Staff List Question

Hey... Here's something I've wondered about for years... Creating a staff list for staff expressions, if you click next to a staff name an X appears. If you click again in the same place the X changes to an F. If you click a third time the selection is un-X-ed. What does the F mean ng _

Re: [Finale] Incorrectly Printing Articulation (?)

On 23 Mar 2005, at 14:43, John Howell wrote: At 4:38 AM + 3/23/05, John Bell wrote: PS On reflection, since you say the inverted A is beside both notes it's unlikely to be an articulation -- only one instance would appear in that case -- so unless my earlier suggestion of O for open string i

Re: [Finale] Compatability with XP Service Pack 2 (SP2)?

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 23:00:35 +1100, Paul Copeland wrote: > > Hello. > > I have Windows XP Home Edition. > > I have Finale 2005b > > Is it safe for me to install XP Service Pack 2 (SP2)? > > Many thanks for your help. > > Please forgive me if this question has already been answ

Re: [Finale] Incorrectly Printing Articulation (?)

At 4:38 AM + 3/23/05, John Bell wrote: PS On reflection, since you say the inverted A is beside both notes it's unlikely to be an articulation -- only one instance would appear in that case -- so unless my earlier suggestion of O for open string is wrong it must me something else that applie

Re: [Finale] OT Giant Steps

That animation RULES! It makes my "website hall of fame." Thanks Christopher! Allen > Christopher Smith wrote: > >> For those who are fans of John Coltrane, check out this animation. So >> simple, yet he really seems to hear the piece the way I think a lot of >> jazz musicians might hear it. I

Re: [Finale] Compatability with XP Service Pack 2 (SP2)?

Paul Copeland wrote: Hello. I have Windows XP Home Edition. I have Finale 2005b Is it safe for me to install XP Service Pack 2 (SP2)? Many thanks for your help. Please forgive me if this question has already been answered. I haven't checked the list for some months now. I have WinXPpro

[Finale] Compatability with XP Service Pack 2 (SP2)?

Hello.   I have Windows XP Home Edition.   I have Finale 2005b   Is it safe for me to install XP Service Pack 2 (SP2)?   Many thanks for your help.   Please forgive me if this question has already been answered. I haven't checked the list for some months now.   Paul Copeland  

Re: [Finale] editing score and parts

David Bailey wrote: As for Dennis' fear of losing access to Finale, I agree, it's not paranoid. If Dennis's fear was losing access to data in files created with Sibelius, I would agree that it would not be paranoid. However, at least the ~.etf file format of Finale is open, and anyone who wis

Re: [Finale] editing score and parts

John Howell wrote: At 4:04 PM -0500 3/19/05, dhbailey wrote: There is a way to do what you want, it's just that Finale programmers haven't figured out how to do it. :-( My bet is the first notation software which does that (Sibelius, Finale or the newly developping Notion software from http://

Re: [Finale] Wierd print bug

Carl Dershem wrote: OK - this may or may not have happened to some of you before. If so, did you find a way out? I'm trying to print some parts on an HP9650 on 12x18 paper (2-up). The parts just cut off the last 3" of the page, as though the printer suddenly ran out of ink, but nice and clean