I love this kind of behind-the-scenes, in-the-weeds video, and it's well done.<p>Unfortunately, the incident with a Muse Group director openly blackmailing an open source developer [1] [2], threatening to have him deported to China <i>while specifically calling out</i> his public criticism of the CCP with a disgusting "who knows how he may be received"—well, to say that this incident leaves a bitter mark in my memory would be an understatement. I am happy to be using other free software for my engraving and playback needs, and with Tenacity just recently having published its first stable release, I'm eager to drop Audacity, too.<p>Truth be told, I was never a heavy MuseScore user, but I have used Audacity regularly for decades. This turn saddens me, but it matters to me how those I support use their power, and threatening someone's life over an audio program is bullying more severe than that which I can condone.<p>[1]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27881539">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27881539</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader/issues/5#issuecomment-882472815">https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader/issues/5#issu...</a>
MuseScore has been transformed in recent versions. Great strides in quality while simultaneously turning away from being community-owned, that's at least the feeling I get.<p>Musescore is now hard to install, distributions don't carry builds of it. It's now only distributed as snap, flatpak and appimage. It now integrates with commercial services, etc.<p>That's just a characterization of what it looks like from the linux front, the application is sliding over to behave like a commercial project.
It's a really good video like the others from the author. It's a poignant journey into UX design. And then the Jank Man is a great mascot for all the conflicting descisions we have to take for a large software to take shape.
Ah yes, after giving the middle finger to the entire open source community after you bought Audacity - only after screwing over the original userbase of MuseScore.<p>Tantacrul is a black mark on the FOSS community. Strong words, yes.
While I love the UX improvements, MuseScore 4 is unusably laggy. On every machine I’ve tried, it takes 10+ seconds to respond after a few phrases have been entered.<p>I was hoping they just rushed out a buggy release, but there’s been no improvement since then. When folks complain about it on the subreddit or forums, Muse Group just brushes them off.<p>I’ve used Musescore for a long time, and I happily would’ve put up with moderate bugs for a contemporary UX. But unfortunately, 4.0/4.1 is completely broken for me.
We talk a lot about Blender as being the big success story of Open Source (and it is amazing indeed), but we shouldn't forget smaller projects like Musescore. It's really good software and I've used it a lot; it's as good if not better than many of the commercial alternatives.<p>Now if we only had a Musescore-quality Photoshop or After Effects alternative...
Musescrore 4 is nominated for UX Design Awards, add in your vote if you love the redesign.<p><a href="https://ux-design-awards.com/winners/2023-2-musescore-4" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://ux-design-awards.com/winners/2023-2-musescore-4</a>