I’d be happy to chip in £100 towards a Dorico file repository.
MuseScore is making itself the de facto notation format by hosting thousands of files.
A site that focused on quality, rather than quantity, could establish itself as a more essential resource.
I would still love to see this happen. The problem is that you have to pay for the site one of four ways:
It seems like there is a 5th way – or maybe that is a variant of one of the other 4.
The 5th way would be for Steinberg to host the site as a service that increases the value of Steinberg products. To the extent that the contents are offered for purchase, Steinberg could take a commission, just as Microsoft does with Github.
There is a strong resistance to subscriptions for the basic product. But ones sees Muse offering plug-ins for Audacity through the added value subscription. Personally, I don’t mind paying on a per-case basis for things that have value, such as sheet music. I would rather not have a monthly subscription, but others are OK with that. There is no reason why a site can’t offer both payment options.
There are potentially many things that could be offered on such a site. Obviously Dorico scores and Cubase loops would fit this model. Likewise, user-created synth patches and, playback templates for commercial sound libraries, scripts for control surfaces, and so on.
Storing files and saving metadata in a database is not that complicated (when demands are within reason); the problem I see as a major is monitoring copyright infringements. There are so many rules for different countries (and even for specific composers) that any server needs to be placed in the most “allowing” country, probably somewhere in Africa… (I think there is an African country that has a copyright of 0 years, but I don’t recall the name.)
Would not the folks at ISMLP be willing to accept Dorico as a file format? I think I’ve seen .mus files among the PDFs in the lists for some composers.
Per their FAQ, IMSLP allows notation files within a ZIP archive, provided a PDF is also included. Several contributors use Dorico, but I haven’t seen any actual Dorico files uploaded.
Last year MuseGroup bought Hal Leonard. Hal Leonard owned noteflight and if you have the right subscription to noteflight you have the ENTIRE digital collection of Hal Leonard to use and play on a digital device. I am certain it doesn’t allow printing or reproducing. This plus the noteflight library, plus the Hal Leonard library means Dorico has a big hill to climb if it goes down that hill.
I would love a library of Dorico public domain work but I’m resigned to the fact musicxml or midi is it for the moment.
At the moment my school is looking into subscriptions for Musescore or Noteflight because of age restrictions on both apps. Dorico, unfortunately, is just priced too high for our low socio economic school.
Welcome to the forum, @Davivo75. I will point out that Dorico SE and Dorico for iPad are both completely free and can be used in schools and colleges. For secondary education, we can also provide multi-user licenses for Dorico Elements that have a suggested price of $30 per seat, and that is a perpetual license for the current major version, rather than a subscription that needs to be paid year after year. (There is also a dedicated version of Dorico for iPad available via Apple School Manager that costs $60 per device once you are buying for 20 or more devices, providing comparable functionality to Dorico Elements.)
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