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Unbelievable - Version: 2008b, 2/21/2008 12:00AM PST
JMReed (Mona Lisa Sound, Inc.)
I've been using Finale professionally since v1.0 when it cost $1000 and came in a pretty box with a VHS tape. Fantastically, this program still has bugs from v1.0. The company clearly is too penny-wise-pound-foolish to rewrite this code which has been patched ad nauseam since the original code was written by one person (and rather poorly). In all fairness, I have been able to produce a tremendous amount of work with this program, but the price in emotional aggravation has been incredibly high. I can't tell you how many times I have cursed out loud while using this program.
This latest release shows no tool palettes (they're blank!), so it is totally broke (of course, now I will have to restore the version before this one with the extremely well-written "Time Machine" software from Apple (Make Music - that is how software is supposed to be written).
I used to keep a running list of the bugs and lack of obvious features which I would periodically send to Coda (the list was nearly 100 items long), but since they never do anything about the worst bugs and would rather come out with new features in order to get their yearly stipend of update money out of us - I gave up.
NOTICE: If there are any ace Mac programmers out their who would like to collaborate with me on a program to kick all of their asses - please let me know. I have ideas that would blow them all out of the water if implemented properly. I am a music publisher, Grammy nominated musician and computer programmer since 1979. I'm serious about this - enough is enough.
This latest release shows no tool palettes (they're blank!), so it is totally broke (of course, now I will have to restore the version before this one with the extremely well-written "Time Machine" software from Apple (Make Music - that is how software is supposed to be written).
I used to keep a running list of the bugs and lack of obvious features which I would periodically send to Coda (the list was nearly 100 items long), but since they never do anything about the worst bugs and would rather come out with new features in order to get their yearly stipend of update money out of us - I gave up.
NOTICE: If there are any ace Mac programmers out their who would like to collaborate with me on a program to kick all of their asses - please let me know. I have ideas that would blow them all out of the water if implemented properly. I am a music publisher, Grammy nominated musician and computer programmer since 1979. I'm serious about this - enough is enough.
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Disastrous 'update' 
- Version: 2007c, 2/26/2007 12:28PM PST
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jmsuijkerbuijk_dotmac
Finale 2007c has a serious bug: part extraction doesn't create a single multmeasure rest! Even though the option to create multimeasure rests is selected in both document options and part extraction preferences, one has to manually create multimeasure rests after the extraction.
Wonder whether MakeMsuic will fix this bug or will introduce creation of multimeasure rests as a new feature in Finale 2008?
Wonder whether MakeMsuic will fix this bug or will introduce creation of multimeasure rests as a new feature in Finale 2008?
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If you install Finale 2007 on a case-sensitive HFS+ partition, you'll find that the dialog box that lets you choose between printing the score and printing parts never shows up. It's caused by a bug in their code when it tries to access part of the application. To fix this, in terminal, do the following:
I've submitted this bug report to MakeMusic, so hopefully it will at least get fixed for future releases.