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Some kind of crowdfunding should be possible, indeed
Or something like an pre=delivery purchase.But I don’t think anything like that is worth considering, unless we get some news on the progress, or the lack of it.
We have no idea if the stand-still is due to financial reasons, or to really personal ones.
Overture 6 is also blocked, by the way.
Well, if it does not show up in this google search (or other formulations of the question), it means it does not exist…
Make a Google Search with “Lyrics Translator”, there are several proposals, many AI-based.
No idea of actual quality or value, however.Is it a joke?
Automatic translation has very much improved these last years, but doing it while respecting the words and syllables, rhythm and rimes…
is yet another challenge.
I’m afraid AI will soon or later try to do that…Furthermore, the 19th century habit to translate lyric works, has been abandoned since a long time now.
Hello Encore45
Sadly, I think it’s over. No Encore 6.
Perhaps there are too many problems after all.Of course, we don’t know if Don’s health is good. If not, please let us know so we can understand why Encore 6 isn’t happening.
I’m afraid that you are not far from the reality. At end of fall 2024, the availability was said to be very soon (“if not by Thanksgiving, it would be by CyberMonday”…)
Sure, there are unexpected problems raising up during a development, but it wouln’t be a very big deal if certain functions, originally planned, were delay for a second release.
In the previous years, there has been a long period where Don had to prioritize other tasks, and this is something that can show up again. If not again and again.Now, would a first version of Encore 6 be made available in the coming weeks, I would not think that Don would have, all of a sudden, enough time to handle problem reports and to issue the needed corrections. Let us not forget that Overture 6 is also many years overdue.
I think it is too risky to embark as a single developper on such a project. Not that only big engines with tens of people would be necessary (that would only be more expensive (unless subsidized), but a small team of two or three people should be the vital minimum.
I wouldn’t contradict your sentence saying “It may be more practical…”
However, the implementation of swing in Encore (4 or 5) is quite elementary – and even presents an incoherence between the Win and Mac implementation (or perhaps just the documentation).
Normally, the swing ratio should be preserved for a while, though mine seems blocked on 75% – which is not the default.
A swing ration of 66% is most common – for swing notation. Many pieces who are actually swinging at 75% have it explicitly notated with dotted eights- sixteenths pairs (or multiple).Now, if Encore 6 comes some day to light, we should not expect that it resembles Encore 5 up to that level of detail. And before that hypothetical moment, it does not help to speculate.
There is a risk to see a swing implementation as basic as in Overture (eights at 62.5%!)
I would imagine that your problem may be similar to the one described in
License code needs to be entered every start up Windows 10 Extended
It might also be due to a registry cleaner, such as “CCleaner” or “PC Cleaner” which is doing its work a bit too deeply.
Encore 6 isn’t available yet. I have sent you the links to Encore 5 (as per your other post), assuming you have a registration key.
Happy summer, down under!!!
By the way, while the <english word> “Encore” has the same use (in concerts) as “Bis” in Europe, the French “Encore” means “again, still”.
And “still” also means “still”…A “Stille Nacht” for everybody…
I think that when I looked there this morning or yesterday, something indicated that they had discontinued Encore 5 (but perhaps continued with MusicTime 4); but this evening it’s again the text as it was a couple of weeks ago.
The german text says indeed 79€, but the english text says 89$ — which is actually closer to 75€.Till recently, the Austrian reseller of Encore was selling it’s remaining license keys at a discount prince, see:
https://musica.at/encore/index1.htm
But now they seem to have stopped that (Important Info).
I’m not sure anyway that this is fully legal, since PassPortMusic LLC stopped business about four years ago.Some users who own a license key, but do not use the product any longer, might agree to sell or give it to you. While this is against the specifications of the EULA (end user license agreement), local laws applicable to the owner might override that restriction. This would apparently be the case for owners having bought it in the European Union.
You should publish your e-mail here, so that interested people could contact you directly to make some offer.
Licenses are cross-platform. What you need, is the install file. Send me a mail so that I can give you the link.
One should review the EULA, but the rules might me that one can run a single Encore license on only one computer at a time.
This is the problem. Finale users can select the version of MusicXML for export from 1.0–4.0. Can’t be done in MuseScore 4.x. as xml 4.0 is the only choice. Until PFDtoMusic Pro and Harmony Assistant adopt 4.0, that problem will remain. Neither can handle dashed(dotted) slurs and if you see those, give it up and enter by hand to save time. I speak from experience.
Mike, don’t confuse the abilities of a certain level of MusicXML with the import or export correctness of the implementation.
While for sure MusicXML 1.x is quite elementary and outdated, the difficulties that users with MusicXML 2 encounter when importing MusicXML 4 files is not, basically, related to these level differences. Functions that MuseScore includes would just be ignored.
The main problem is that, withing the functions supported by level 2, there are bugs in the export correctness, or in the import correctness, or most probably in both.
A level upgrade isn’t per se a maintenance release.
And the issue I wanted to point out – and it would be the same if all the products were at the same highest functional level – is that bugs left in an exporter (which software has no bugs?) have an extreme risk to be compensated at the importer’s site, since the export bugs are discovered by the importer (who as a user cannot make the difference) and can only turn towards the importer’s software support.
