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I started working on MuseScore recently (last week actually) with my buddy Tantacrul who I used to work with on Ubuntu a few years ago.

MS4 is going to be a major overhaul, and MuseScore.com is going to be massively improved also. Would it be possible to chat with you about what the reservations your teachers have about it, and how we can improve those areas?

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I love Tantacrul's videos, and was pleased to see he's now working on MuseScore. He finally gets to put his money where his mouth is, and I'm fairly confident that he (and yourself) will do a great job with MS4.

Best wishes and happy coding to the team!

CTO at a conservatory here. Although I haven't been in music long enough to really know, I think there is a lot of room here for a great open source product. Sibelius and Finale are too expensive and not interested in offering discounts to composition students. (Who would then probably be lifetime customers, so I don't really get it, but whatever.) Get in touch if you're interested in talking (I'm easy to find).

Forcing people into paying for the distribution of their own midi files/scores would be one major issue. Of course musescore.org claims that musescore.com is a totally separate entity but they go out of their way to confuse visitors of the .org site. The interaction between .org stewards and the general public is totally bizarre. It's the same trick that gracenote pulled on cddb many years go. It was ugly then, it's ugly now and the copyright excuse just doesn't cut it, all they'd need to do is properly implement the DMCA for this problem to go away.

Hey Jacques, this was one of the main things I wanted to clarify too, after looking at user feedback over the last week. Would you be up for a quick chat to understand better how to remedy this?

Sure, email in profile.

One suggestion would be to implement a mode similar to Finale's "speedy entry", which allows for more efficient entry of notes, dynamics, articulations, ornaments, etc. without moving between modes and pallets, correcting and adjusting and so forth.

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