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BarFly - 1.7.4

editor & player for abc music files

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Current Version:	1.7.4
Release Date:	2008-05-21
License:	Commercial
Downloads (this version):	692
Downloads (all versions):	5,899
Price:	$25.00

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Product Description:

abc is a text format for the notation of music. BarFly is a text editor which can play abc tunes embedded in text or display them in regular staff notation or in four-line Gregorian chant notation. It can export pictures of the music, standard midi or audio files, and has lots of useful utility functions, e.g. renumber, transpose, reformat or analyse abc tunes. BarFly supports a number of powerful extensions to the abc language such as multivoice, macros and redefinable symbols, and can handle extremely complex abcs. BarFly comes with lots of documentation, tutorials and examples.

What's new in this version:

Now compatible with OS 10.5.2.
Fixed a couple more bugs in Expand Guitar Chords.
Fixed a bug which prevented intonations from working properly.
Fixed a bug which caused the Recent Files menu to be cleared if the user saved a file without resources.
Fixed a bug which caused files to fail to open if they contained bad symbol or macro definitions in the file header.
Fixed a bug which sometimes caused the Transpose routine to put the key signature in lower-case.
Fixed a bug which caused a crash when importing MusicXML under recent versions of OS X.
Changed the menu shortcut for Utilities>Format tune to Option-F to resolve a conflict with the File Search command.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.1
Mac OS Classic

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS 8.5 - 9.2.2, or
Mac OS X 10.1 or higher

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One of the great apps - Version: 1.4.1, 7/30/2003 03:21PM PST

daj

Phil has created a marvel, the split and join file functions seem to work seemlessly, creating crib sheets for gigs is a breeze, it is like an itunes for musos, it's just that Barfly was around long before itunes!
Printing is sufficient- but you can use one of the abc to ps convertors- again been doing that for years, easy enough to then create pdfs for the rest of the band!

Absolutely indispensible - Version: 1.4.1, 7/29/2003 05:15PM PST

gwysham

for anyone doing abc on a Mac! Each version just gets better and better, and I couldn't *wait* for the Carbon version to come out, as it and Finale were my last two Classic holdouts. Much more strict in its adherence to the abc spec than most Windoze abc apps, which can can cause some headaches with files generated by (for example) abc2win, but worth it. Not really intended for printout, but perfectly functional as it is.
Now if only he'd port it to the Palm! ;-)