Submissions General Questions, Comments, etc

[mikey]

but the PSVita's only game is Teetris

[braix]

It wasn't worth it to buy that game with the deed to my house, a kilogram of pure gold, 40 cattle, and my firstborn son from a street vendor in the middle of South Africa, who promised that his magic beans would change my life forever.

[TooFarGann]

When uploading a submission there ought to be an option for Musescore files (.mscz). I have tried different notation software (Lilypond Musette Notepad ect.) and these pale in comparison to Musescore. Musescore has the not only best interface, but more options and it's free. Notepad (which seems to be the standard here) lacks even basic abilities such as to change time signature, which was extremely frustrating when I was trying to make a piano reduction of "Treasure Sleeping in the Sand". Another plus is that you can upload it to the Musescore website with links and credits to NSM which I think would widen the audience not only for your sheets, but bring more people to the site.

[Dudeman]

I'm sure there have been countless conversations about preferred notation program among the staff in the past, but NSM has always primarily used Finale and that's how it's going to be for a while. I personally use MuseScore so I agree with everything you're saying, but to switch notation programs at this point would be impractical and would require reskins of every single sheet on the site, not to mention require everyone to use two programs in general.

[TooFarGann]

Woah woah woah slow down there! I sign up here a month ago. I think that I would be a little presumptuous to think I was on a crusade trying to convert the format of the entire site. let me rephrase: is adding an additional format (such as .mus .pdf .midi) doable?

[Dude]

It's doable, but ultimately unnecessary.

I mean finale already covers the scrolling sheet music format pretty well, so it seems overkill to add more.

[TooFarGann]

It's doable, but ultimately unnecessary.

I mean finale already covers the scrolling sheet music format pretty well, so it seems overkill to add more.

I would respectfully disagree; given the reason I have maintained.

[Dude]

woop

I mean like just ask someone to help.

[TooFarGann]

That is extremely problematic. If you needs someone to write an entire file for you each time you encounter an obstacle then it seems that Finale most certainly does not cover the scrolling sheet music format at all.

[Altissimo]

That is extremely problematic. If you needs someone to write an entire file for you each time you encounter an obstacle then it seems that Finale most certainly does not cover the scrolling sheet music format at all.

honestly i agree 100% but nobody here ever wants to listen so i suggest you save your energy

[mikey]

I mean, we added musx files, so obviously we can add another file in submissions
I just don't know if it would accomplish anything

[Olimar12345]

Here's an older conversation on the matter for those interested:
http://forum.ninsheetmusic.org/index.php?topic=7335.msg299891#msg299891

[TooFarGann]

That's truly unfortunate. It's like having a website dedicated to the intricacies of the Microsoft Word program, but only producing plain text files. See ya' around 

[Altissimo]

i wonder how many potential contributors have been driven away by the finale policies tbh :]

[Tobbeh99]

I wonder, how difficult is it converting xmls into finale? I though it was just to make the complete arrangement in musescore/sibelius or whatever, then export the xml into finale and in finale export the files again in their final shape. Is it so? Btw we should really make a tutorial on how to submit arrangements from non-finale softwares. Since we have Finale as a standard it we really need one of those tutorials to make it easier for users of other softwares to contribute.

Also has this been fixed??

Ok so my comment above wasn't that detailed, wrote it down in haste.
Here's a more detailed list of notable consoles that are missing:

Atari:
Atari 2600
Atari 5600
Atari 7600
Atari Jaguar
Atari Lynx

Sony:
Playstation 3
Playstation 4
Playstation Vita


Microsoft:
Xbox One


Sega:
Master System
Sega CD
Sega 32X
Sega Saturn


Other:
TurboGrafx-16/ PC-Engine
Neo Geo
3DO Interactive Multiplayer
Mobile

you could obviously also add these to the request boards as well, and create suitable abbreviations for them.