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From paper sheet music to computer music files: the needs of classical music composers and how software developers contribute to progress

From paper sheet music to computer music files: the needs of classical music composers and how software developers contribute to progress

  How composers try to combine the use of paper and computer

Professional music composers are high skilled users of both computers music and music paper. In their practice, they try to combines the advantages of paper sheet music use and computer music tools.

Their main questions are not related to the best way to exploit existing music composition and notation software but to the best manner to…

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Music notation API monetization – Involving customers when you create an API – Sheet music as stream of revenue

Music notation API monetization – Involving customers when you create an API – Sheet music as stream of revenue

  Proprietary and open source

Software users do not only demonstrate that developers’ work is useful and that they do something right, they contribute to validate products, as testers and faithful users in the framework of proprietary software and as members of communities where they are somewhere users but also volunteers entrepreneurs.

All professionals involved in the music notation software…

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Where do music software developers find get user-related informations?

Requests for technical services

A simple question, a simple answer : you will find informations related to the needs of your product’s users in their requests for technical services.

There, users express how they interact with the software and how they understand it. Also sometimes they evaluate the application in technical terms.

That feedback is precious even if in several cases it cannot be…

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Open source competition, and so what? Some ways to be on your own way as a proprietary music software developer

Ready to launch your proprietary software, what about open source?

You just finished your studies or you began to create music software 10 years ago, in both case you are in the same situation : you are overwhelmed with open source competition.

Good news : you do not have to care about it. Of course, as it is mentioned in all good marketing books, you cannot ignore competitors. But you do not…

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White paper as smart marketing tool for music software starters

What is a white paper?

Let us suppose that you just launched your new music software product. Your code is clean, you have cool beta testers and already a little number of ‘early adopters’. You registered your software in download centers and placed it in apps stores.

Also, you wrote a clear user guide because you know that ‘A good product does not need a user guide’ is just unserious. You are a…

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API change the music technology and the music business models - II. Four functional roles of an API – Links between SDK and API

API change the music technology and the music business models – II. Four functional roles of an API – Links between SDK and API

This post is the second of three. In the first one, I tried to define what is an API.

Now I would present 4 functional roles of an API (links between an API and a product) and establish links between SDK and API in the framework of the the digital music ecosystem.

Further posts will talk about the expectations of the developers in matter of music technology business and complementary points of…

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Solo entrepreneurship and funded startups teams – The case of Arpege Music and what we can do for any potential founder who is a programmer in matter of music software development

Solo entrepreneurship and funded startups in general

My purpose is is not to discourse around the best way to create startups, as there are thousands of business websites which do that very well. Every founder today knows that there are two main profiles: the single founder company or solo entrepreneurship – which is habitually self-funded – and the startup funded by private venture capital…

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