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Anthony, Encore 6 isn’t available yet, so there isn’t any download page!
I have checked my ruins of Encore 4.5 and MTDL 3.5. What I have archived doesn’t work well anymore, and what I remember as where the registration code lies (in an installation) seems no longer valid. I can open and save old files but not print them (I think the print routines are no longer compatible with Windows 10/11.
These 45/35 files can be opened – and printed – in Encore 5. I hope that this intermediary step will not be necessary.
I never saw MusicTime creating .mts files, I would have thought that .mts was for MasterTracks (which I never used).
MusicTime “DeLuxe” was normally creating .mus files (but other editors also, though they are not compatible). Another extension was .rhp (for Rhapsody, an intermediate level at some time).Hello! Well, MTD 355 is exactly 21 years old, and 354 must be a little more. Yopu are very lucky that it was still running yesterday…
I periodically make a basic check of my old Encore 455, which is level-equivalent of MTD 355. Well, today it doesn’t work too well (it could save files, but not print). Same for an MTD archive.
Encore 6 is supposed to read Encore5/MTD4 files. It could be possible that earlier files would need an intermediary “conversion”.
In your current situation, your best bet would be to have a friend with E5/M4, who could help you with your files on the short term.
I’ll see, later today, if these E4/M3 levels would still run on an “old” Win10 which is unable to apply updates.
André Baeck (Belgium)
andre(.)baeck(@)gmail(.)comIf not all, at least the latest versions of Encore 5 (and Encore 4 as well, by the way) have always worked “perfectly” on (good versions of) Windows 10 and even 11.
When I say “perfectly”, I mean “as well and as bad as they did when they were released”….What is true, is that an installed library on one system cannot be just copied to another one, one needs to run an installation file. And since many upgrades were done using online updates, it’s not easy to find a good installation file.
If you send me a mail to andre(.)baeck(at)gmail(.)com, I’ll send you the most recent official build of E504.
To Yabori: send me a mail at andre(dot)baeck@gmail(dot)com, I’ll send you a link with installation files.
My Win11 system is a 64-bit system. That E504 and E455 run on that system is a fact.
If I have to trust the above quote, I must suppose that they are neither depending on 16-bit binaries nor on 32-bit drivers.
It’s quite reasonable to be looking forward to Encore 6, since Encore 5 is now quite old, and wasn’t in a so good health when it stopped being supported…
But I haven’t seen that Windows 11 would not run 32-bit applications. Encore 504 runs in Win11, it even installs. Even Encore 455 runs in W11, but I’m not sure I ever tried to install it.
Hello Robert,
If your old computer isn’t dead, but just old, you should be able to copy the Encore product folder (in c:/Program Files) to the new one via an external medium. Or find that folder on a backup.
Such a copy should work, since you already went through the standard installation process with 875.
Neyac2021, please don’t shout on us. The users of this forum are all, just as you, waiting for progress, though unable to say much more.
How? Time needed apart, a person can very well work on two different programs, with or without file compatibility.
Why? Perhaps, making one single program meant to combine the strength of two would just create two sets of unhappy people.
My personal opinion is that, simply a project to have Overture reading the Encore/MTdL source files would have been seen as sufficient for the Encore users, given that, 2(3?) years go, Encore was seen as dead and buried.
I couldn’t tell if there was, or was’t, a production version called 858. It could have been in the form of an update.
Anyway, 875 is more recent (or better, less old).
