I don't even have the patience now to find the right category for this, so it goes in misc.  Tough.

Dear reader, this a full on cathartic rant.  You're not likely going to understand what the hell I'm talking about, but it's either this or I start breaking shit.  And since I don't have any shit to break at the moment, the point is moot.  Welcome!  Welcome to my blog!

I'm a musician.  And on occasion, I have to write music.  Yeah - I know most musicians can't spell their own names with a crayon these days, much less write music, but hey - that makes me special.  At some point in time, some computer genius decided it would be cool to have software where you could write music and have it print out all nice and pretty.  Like all similar softeware niche situations, several companies vied for control of this, admittedly tiny, market.  At this time, the two big contenders are Finale and Sibelius.  I use the latter.  I've used the latter for years now, because Finale sux the balls of a retarded donkey in terms of intuitiveness.  Here comes the punch line.

I'm about to go back to the Armed Forces School of Music, and guess what?  The military uses the crappy product in all of its coursework.  Big surprise.  So I've been trying desperately to find a way to use Sibelius and convert it into Finale format only to find out I have to drop another 130 bucks on a plugin that will do the trick.  Only - there's no guarantee that it will totally do the trick.  That means that after the conversion, if I were to buy this shit that I shouldn't have to buy in the first place, I might still have a lot of tweaking to do to make the final product acceptable for my classwork.

GODDAMMIT!!

When are these companies going to realize that making their shit proprietary only pisses off the consumers.  I OWN both softwares, but I can't get them to talk to one another.  (Oh, my preferred software, Sibelius, reads Finale files just fine.  Of course it does, it fucking rocks.  Finale sux.)

Pissed.  Way pissed.

Hey!  Thanks for stopping by!  Here's some butterflies and flowers for you if this rant was too vehement.

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