viewing files in Finale Notepad
viewing files in Finale Notepad
A number of music files are listed as "Smartviewer Music" files. This program no longer exists. I've discovered that Finale Notepad has replaced this program, but I still can't view any files that are supposed to open in that format. (I also have Finale 2007, but that doesn't seem to matter.) Any advice?
As is happens, there is a way to use Finale Notepad to open files set to open with the SmartMusic browser plug in (later, I believe, renamed by Finale, the "Finale Music Viewer"). However, the files which are set for use with the SmartMusic viewer are external to the site, and are copyright, so I am not prepared to discuss how to use the Notepad to access those files.
If one does a CPDL search for "Abel Di Marco", you can eventually link to an external page, which provides a directory of the scores to which Father Di Marco has provided links, as well as a link to the Finale Music Viewer.
Because so many of the files are copyright, the only advice I feel comfortable giving at the moment, is for you to try to contact the contributor of such files, and secure permission to obtain the files in another format.
If you are unable to contact the contributor, post another note here, and if one of us cannot help, we can at least disable the link.
ns
If one does a CPDL search for "Abel Di Marco", you can eventually link to an external page, which provides a directory of the scores to which Father Di Marco has provided links, as well as a link to the Finale Music Viewer.
Because so many of the files are copyright, the only advice I feel comfortable giving at the moment, is for you to try to contact the contributor of such files, and secure permission to obtain the files in another format.
If you are unable to contact the contributor, post another note here, and if one of us cannot help, we can at least disable the link.
ns
[quote="Wilbour"][quote="mjolnir"]we can at least disable the link.[/quote]
Just a thought, but as there appears to be several people having the tools or methods to make use of the files published by Father Di Marco, maybe disabling his links would be unfortunate.[/quote]
My suggestion about disabling the links was not intended to include Fr. Di Marco's site at this time. However Fr. Di Marco was not the only one to make use of the old SmartMusic / Finale Music Viewer, and I have not examined personally all of the sites to verify that the others are all still available. My comment about disabling links was made with the idea that there might be some other sites which used the same software, and that the owners of those sites might not respond, or might not agree to make the scores available for opening in Notepad.
ns
Just a thought, but as there appears to be several people having the tools or methods to make use of the files published by Father Di Marco, maybe disabling his links would be unfortunate.[/quote]
My suggestion about disabling the links was not intended to include Fr. Di Marco's site at this time. However Fr. Di Marco was not the only one to make use of the old SmartMusic / Finale Music Viewer, and I have not examined personally all of the sites to verify that the others are all still available. My comment about disabling links was made with the idea that there might be some other sites which used the same software, and that the owners of those sites might not respond, or might not agree to make the scores available for opening in Notepad.
ns
Re: viewing files in Finale Notepad
"SmartMusic Viewer" is the same as "Finale viewer", and windows users can download the original version of this browser plug in from the siteddbmus wrote:A number of music files are listed as "Smartviewer Music" files. This program no longer exists. I've discovered that Finale Notepad has replaced this program, but I still can't view any files that are supposed to open in that format. (I also have Finale 2007, but that doesn't seem to matter.) Any advice?
http://www.pucpr.edu/diocesis/14cantoral.html
by clicking on the "Finale Viewer" button in the extreme upper right hand corner of the page. Instructions for installing the plug in can be found at
http://www.pucpr.edu/diocesis/Support.html
The page on this wiki at
[url]http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Temp ... Viewer[url]
gives information on obtaining the plug-in for versions of the MAC OS, from 8.6 through 9.2.2. As far as I know there is no version of the viewer for older or newer versions of the MAC OS.
ns