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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.
I have never installed MasterTracks. If somebody would send me an installation file of 6.8.4 (assuming that is tha latest), I would add it on my download page, which I send to those asking for a refresh.
Eventually, with a 6.8.3 version (for Win) giving a problem with “devices”, I could see if something could be solved by importing an Encore version of this folder.
Yes, I know, as do 1% of the Europeans (perhaps Australians too) and 1°/oo in Asia, Africa, Latin America, etc.
And till last year, when it was given as a “probable target”, I would have thought of “last Thursday”…
Hello Mr. Rescu
I wouldn’t stop on the look of this site, as a joke I would not qualify it as “sinister” but simply as “Austrian”.
It seems quite recently updated, so there is a fair chance that they would be honest with their customers.However, they were probably authorized resellers at the time of the GVOX and PASSPORTMUSIC companies, but this authorization has probably dropped when the latter company stopped business in 2021 or so. They might have some unsold licences that they want to make money of at a 75% discount price, and this might not be that legal or contractual…
But there is another warning: this is Encore 5, and I’m not sure at all that files created in the late 90ies could be read vy Encore 5, even perhaps not by Encore 455 that some of us still have available: the upward compatibility was broken during the Encore 4 lifespan.
You could have a chance with Harmony Assistant: this Myriad product has a function to import Encore files, with a variable quality, and better with older files. If importing is successful, a score can be exported with MusicXML.
You might want to send me some of your files (say two: a rather small one and a rather large one), I could see if there is any way to recover their contents. My mai id can be guessed from my identification here.
