That's what timers are for.

Yeah what's the deal with those. Why do they always break after a year or so no matter how much you pay for them.

@RegDwigнt Agreed.

Yeah I'm the scut man. Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub.

Not scat ... scut. There's a difference.

I'm not seeing it.

More's the pity.

Thomas More?

Thomas Less.

Thomenos Less.

The one time I wish I had an oe ligature available, and I can't lay my hands on one. Wanted to write "Thomas Loess" with it.

I just google for that shit.

œ

There.

You can have mine but I'll need it back.

Well, you'd think the doggy would help me out with it, but noooooo ...

The doggy posted one word in the last two hours.

Here. "Thomas Lœss" ...

I am very pleased with all the effort you put into all your work.

It's almost like you think it means something to someone.

Ah, I found it in the Windows character map, finally: œ.

So take yours back, I now have my own.

Thanks though now I'll need to wash it.

@Cerberus: Are we manœuvering well enough for you now?

@RegDwigнt If you do, that will waste a good ass-wipe.

He is too busy reading drama. The drama queen that he is.

Sorry. The drama queen that they is.

I think you mean "drama quœen" there.

I think you mean drama qᵫen.

I never mean that.

And no, I actually meant drama qᵫer there.

Now, now ... you may get disbarred just like Monica Cellio if you keep that up.

I'd be in good company. She really liked my piano quintet.

Sorry, I mean, they really liked my piano quintet.

To reiterate, I'll say what W. T. Sherman said. "If nominated, I will not run. If elected, I will not serve."

You have a piano quintet? I should visit your channel more often. It doesn't come up in my YouTube feed unless I go hunting for it.

You need to click on the bell I believe. And I believe I need to appear in every video telling you how you need to click on the bell.

But fuck that dude, bowling awaits.

Also you did listen to the quintet. It's the one that got me the watch. In no small part thanks to your upvote.

On that note, it's still unopened. I should do an unpacking video I believe.

AH, well ... my memory these days.

It's good by me. That way I can keep telling you the same garbage over and over.

You can recycle your songs, too.

Too much work. Copypaste is where it's at.

Anyweh, gotta go deal with dinner stuff. Frozen pizzas cook fast. Laterz!

Last night I've been meaning to copypaste Bach. But haven't come around to doing it yet.

Guten Appetit.

I want to straight up take a bit out of one of his motets and put it in my autobiographical magnum opus. (Should I ever decide to write an autobiographical magnum opus. So far I've only got a couple bars, and those are the ones that I've copied from Bach.)

Baby steps.

@Robusto What what?

Earlier today on MuseScore someone asked for a piano transcription of a MIDI from an old video game. I told them how to do it themselves in one easy step. 1: take the MIDI and open it in MuseScore. Done. (I also did that exact same thing myself, uploaded the piano score to the site and included the direct link to it in my answer.)

They replied saying "thanks even though that's not exactly what I wanted, but thanks".

For the last seven hours like I've been pondering how I could possibly react to that. How anyone could.

I gave them exactly what they wanted. Plus explained how I did it and how they could get exactly what they want in the future.

But they did bracket their reply in thanks, so I really can't say anything now.

People are weird.

And like, they didn't specify what about it wasn't to their liking.

You can't play all the notes in the piece? Well, sucks to be you, go practice. They are all in the piece exactly as written.

But that can't really be it, either. It's a very short piece and not difficult at all. Maybe for someone in their first three years, like.

It really makes no sense at all to help anyone on MuseScore with anything. It is never, ever worth it. Even if it literally takes 20 seconds and is as easy as opening a MIDI file or typing one sentence.

It's a really weird place. Really quite fascinating.

@RegDwigнt Quite.

And, like, they won't even give you a like on your answer or anything.

I'm still curious how there can be so many stupid people on a site that seems to be directed at musicians.

They will ask for an obscure arrangement of an obscure piece, and you'll spend two weeks of your life making it, and then you give it to them and they won't even give you a like.

It is literally one click.

@Cerberus it's because it's not directed at musicians. It's directed at everyone but.

It's directed at people searching the Internet for sheet music, and not willing to pay for it.

Which is fine by me, I think all sheet music must be free.

But the point is, the target audience is not musicians. The target audience is everyone but.

A musician does not need the sheet music. They can make the sheet music themselves.

You won't find Lang Lang or Barenboim or Hilary Hahn on MuseScore. Even though they are probably using it, or some other notation software.

At best you'll find there people of my caliber. Who are just making really high-quality stuff for themselves, because they themselves really like high-quality stuff. And then they just share it with the world because why not.

Compared to the effort of writing the music and typesetting the score, a single click on the "Upload" button is nothing.

But yeah. Even such people are a rarity.

Most people making high-quality stuff prefer to sell it for money. As well they might.

OK.

Somehow I thought it was for classical music.

Which assumption is probably wrong.

Well in a way it is and then again it mostly isn't.

The biggest traffic is from people searching for the latest song that's on the radio. Or a transcription of the score from the latest video game.

There's a ton of classical music on there, too. But that's mostly because it's in the public domain, so it's a free for all.

So you can just take an existing score somewhere off the Internet for free, and then transcribe it in MuseScore.

Can't do that with the latest song playing on the radio. That's where you need to actually know what you're actually doing. No notes to copypaste from anywhere.

I do know a few people that are kind of in-between. Like that one lady that has access to the Basque music archives, so she just sits there transcribing ancient scores that have not been previously published anywhere.

She just sits in the library deciphering manuscripts and transcribing them in the digital format.

Needless to say, it's a ton of effort, and it's all rather fascinating composers nobody has even heard of before. And needless to say she'll get like ten views and maybe two likes out of a full year of hard labour.

Holy shit, I forgot all about the time. I'm outta here for today guys.

@RegDwigнt Impressive.

Adios!