what restrictions have you encountered on the publishing of scores on the app. I think sheet music is more locked down then actual songs. When I used one sheet music service, it wouldn't allow me to store a digital copy of the song I wanted, I could only print it once - if my printer jammed in the process, I had to pay again. I asked the owner of the service why and he said the industry was tightly controlled. He also said he wasn't allowed to offer an unlimited download subscription for a monthly fee ala netflix etc which I suggested he should do even though he wanted to.
Show HN: I finally released that sheet music app I keep yammering about
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#72There might be an opportunity to collaborate with the startup http://www.noteflight.com
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#73Truly stunning design & idea. On a similar note, I'm planning to work on a music composition app for the iPad starting summer when I'm done with the semester. It's basically an extension of an iPhone app called Symphony, which still needs more work.
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#74I'm really excited about the iPad app. Imagine sitting down at a piano, putting a iPad where you would normally put sheet music, and playing away with your app auto-scrolling so the musician never has to deal with a page turn. Anyone who has ever played piano knows how amazing it would be to have that eliminated. What a great learning device that would be! Kudos and I eagerly await the iPad version!
Devices have already been made and sold that accomplish this -- presumably because the idea is so obvious.
http://www.google.com/search?q=electronic+sheet+music+reader
My keyboardist/drummer friend has one such device.
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
A lot of people rate iPhone apps when deleting them, so I think a low price can really hurt your ratings. If an app is too cheap a lot of people, who aren't that interested will download it. After, however, they realize they never use it, they will delete it, and while they're at it, they might give it 2 or 3 stars. I think selling your iPhone app at a higher price could be beneficial, as mostly passionate people wil…
That might be the case at $.99. But if you go up a bit (even to $1.99 or $2.99), the amount of bad reviews like that decreases pretty quickly.
Do you know this from experience? I'm really curious how iPhone app customers "work".
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's one of the first thing I though of when I heard about the ipad. I had figured an app for the iphone that used its mic to follow a piano piece along and "turn" the pages would have been cool but for the tiny screen. Then ipad came along. How hard would it be to use the mic input to estimate progress through a piece and turn the pages? Of course just using timing to scroll at the right speed would be ok, but hav…
Using timing to scroll eliminates the ability for the player to add any speed variations in a piece, which most experienced players would. It's a fun app for the common folk, but useless to experienced players.
I don't think that's the deal breaker for experienced players. That'd be pretty to solve with a bluetooth foot-pedal. Here are a few of the things that come to mind that pro-level folks would have hang-ups on:
• Typesetting: I don't know what score format they're using, but this can be a big one. There's a big difference between a professionally engraved score and just having the right notes there.
• Annotations: From the conductor, self, whoever.
• Overview: Professionals scan a score looking for key parts. This seems virtually impossible in iPhone format, but would be workable on the iPad.
• Size: Even the iPad is small compared to a performance sheet music page.
I suspect the three big market segments are hobbyists, children and church musicians. There are relatively few professional performers.
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#77I'm really excited about the iPad app. Imagine sitting down at a piano, putting a iPad where you would normally put sheet music, and playing away with your app auto-scrolling so the musician never has to deal with a page turn. Anyone who has ever played piano knows how amazing it would be to have that eliminated. What a great learning device that would be! Kudos and I eagerly await the iPad version!
This app really does look like it is a match for the iPad. I would consider doing this: A) Make the iphone app free or 1$, get as many users as possible B) Approach whoever owns rights to sheet music, music lessons, etc C) Allow them to sell premium content through your app and you take 50% of the profits
That was the model tried by Noteheads back in the day. It failed miserably: http://noteheads.com/
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#78Wow, nice work. I think $3 is way too cheap, especially compared to piano lessons. I'd easily pay $50 (I'm an Android user though).
Actually, the average price of a paid app in the Android Market is lower than that of one in the App Store. Also, there is a higher number of free apps in the Android Market.
Source: http://androidandme.com/2010/02/news/android-market-has-the-...
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#79Nice work man, congrats!
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#80This is awesome. I'll buy it today, but I want to know when you're going to add in some simple sampling tech so that the sheet music can respond when you hit the wrong notes, or move the page ahead...