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Downloaded MuseScore-2.0.0.msi - double clicked, and nothing.

It behaves as if the install package doesn't even want to launch, as another .MSI package at least shows "preparing to install" before announcing an error message saying that a newer version is already on the system.

Someone reported it already: http://musescore.org/en/node/5...

And that's why you package manual installers in the event that something like this happens.

http://musescore.org/ Curiously missing in the article

Parent is correct. Clearly, a lot of slashdotters don't know the difference between notation and DAW software. No, Reaper, Ardour, and Audacity are not notation programs. If notation is what you want the best F/OSS solution I've seen is MuseScore. I have completely replace Finale/Sibelius with this for my notation needs. Note that my needs are strictly for notation for printing though. I am not doing any MIDI creation from it so I can't speak to that. I don't believe it supports playing back with soundfonts (it includes the nasty MIDI patches mentioned in the OP). As an aside if you're really serious about making printed music look nice you should take a look at LilyPond though it doesn't have an editing GUI so it's more for your magnum opus rather than the quick and dirty song development more typical.

One of the hallmark problems of design-by-committee is that they extend languages for the sake of doing fun things, not because people need it.

While everyone needs containers (like vector/hashmap), nobody needs a simple graphics library. There is practically no hardware out there that doesn't have some sort of hardware accelerated graphics and simple operations just make no sense there.

So, my question really is why they are doing this? I'm betting the answer is not one where they have actual usecases in mind.

Because not every piece of software out there requires accelerated graphics but many certainly benefit from advanced SVG ???? Even though an anti alias switch is used for most. If you are rastering music notation for example why do you require gpu accelerations or advanced text it is an overkill situation to say the least. NOT EVERY FREAKING THING REQUIRES high intensity graphics at high frame rates...DOH DUMB AND DUMBER GAME PROGRAMMERS who can't see the forest for the trees posting more fud on slashdot as usual. A really useful SVG lib like cairo should be included in the C++ standard, the inclusion will speed graphic orient program considerably as cairo is definitely the easiest C++ vectoring lib out there to use and the most versatile and stable OSS svg lib out there. One hell of a lot simpler and code efficient than rastering svg in java and .NUT!

http://musescore.org/

I use the portable version rather extensively, myself.

MIDI is part of the program. The link in the third paragraph to MuseScore notation software says MIDI and PDF outputs are available. This project sounds like a winner to me.

Lilypond is the only good open-source alternative I know of, but it isn't WYSIWYG, and I don't know of a free WYSIWYG music notation program with high quality output, i.e., the kind that a professional musician would like to use.

Musescore (cross-platform) and Rosegarden (Linux only) are GUI score editors that automatically export to LilyPond for rendering.