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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While for sure MusicXML 1.x is quite elementary and outdated, the difficulties that users with MusicXML 2 encounter when importing MusicXML 4 files is not, basically, related to these level differences.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.Arie,
I think that Mike has said that within a perspective of migration encore files onto some other music editor.One could still argue that “Harmony Assistant + PDFtoMusic (std)” costs 15% less than PDFtoMusic Pro, but having a single product to deal with may very well be worth that difference. And the need to get familiar with “score editing” in Harmony Assistant should not be overlooked.
This doesn’t mean that Harmony Assistant, together with Virtual Singer and potentially other companion products, would not be worth it’s price, for users who wouldn’t limit their objectives to create a nice printable score. I use it essentially to provide choir members with training aids in several formats, mainly “score to screen” ones, which they generally use together with a printed score from the marketplace.
You should find your registration nuùber in the Window Registry (accessibme via “regedit”).
It’s at
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PASSPORT\Encore\5.0\Registration]
and the registration code is the last value, called “SN”.On systems where you only used older versions of Encore5, try with GVOX instead of PASSPORT.
A good MusicXML importer is the one that reasonably handles and fixes the flaws introduced by any MusicXML exporter.
Exagerated? a little bit, but the truth isn’ far from that.
When you publish a song, or a symphony, you create and publish an XML export and a PDF. And I’ll take it for granted that you have checked that the PDF is to your wishes, and (I’m an optimistic by nature) you check that your music editor imports that XML file, good enough to your wishes (there are surprises).
I download these files, and import it into my music editor, and for instance run a PDF. I then compare both pdfs, and I find out differences (flaws). Let’s say bad enough ones to worry. So, I’ll submit the files to the support line of my music editor. They may change the code of their product, and I’ll be happy; and they’ll be happy to have a happy customer.
But the flaw was in the export ou four music editor. I will generally not know. And I don’t even know which editor you were using; even if I knew (or know how to find out), I’m not their customer, and don’t have access to their support line.
And frankly, generally no one will know where the culprit is; no one is able to write a totally bugproof exporter, nor a bugproof importer either.
As a guess, a developer will introduce as many bugs in the exporter as in the importer. But he will receive many more error reports towards the importer that towards the exporter. And half of these will really address bugs in the importer, another half will address bugs of the other’s exporter.
The dominant exporter will soon make the law, and the whole will soon become a mess.Nowadays, the dominant exporter is no longer Finale, but has become MuseScore. I see from the Myriad forum that most of the problems users talk about are these they have when importing MuseScore generated XML, and a lot of effort is put into the “acceptance” of these exports.
And since the owner of MuseScore is not a neutral body, I’m not optimistic for what that will become.Not sure what is answered here. For sure, the demo version cannot save/write files. Not even for a 30-day period – what is possible with some products such as Overture.
Basically, reading Windows Encore 5 from a mac “isn’t an issue”, as soon as you have a mac version — and today onbly an “old mac” can do the job.
Now, a few people have mentioned recently that with some kind on “Win emulator on Mac”, the one can use the win version.
It can be a file corruption. Did you see if you have intermediate backups, I don’t remember if there is in Encore an option to keep several versions.
You can send me the file(s) you have – my e-mail can be derivend from my user name here – and I’ll see if I can recover something.
The opinions on the value and quality of this “Encore import into Harmony Assistant are not unanimous.
I guess it must depend on each one”s methodology abd standards on creating scores.Now, Myriad (HA’s publisher) has announced some improvenments for the next delivery, but I have no idea yet of which deficiencies that addresses.
Mario, you should either provide your e-mail address, so that interested users can ask you for that installation file;
or send me this file so that I could integrate it in my download page.My e-mail address can easily be derived from my user name on this forum.
