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> is largely built upon hobbyists' transcription efforts. Which is the same model as one of the other holdings of Muse Group, Ultimate Guitar. It has a wide da
by ycan 3y ago
> is largely built upon hobbyists' transcription efforts.
Which is the same model as one of the other holdings of Muse Group, Ultimate Guitar. It has a wide database for user-created guitar tablatures for most popular songs. Starting from 10 or so years ago, the experience has deteriorated rapidly; they
- push their "Pro" versions at the top of each search result,
- overlay a bullshit video on the actual tablatures which is easily mistaken for a video tutorial for the song you are looking at,
- user created GuitarPro tabs require an account to download,
- there is an ever-present countdown until their 80% runs out, which resets every two days or so.
When I first heard of MuseScore and the fact that Tantacrul worked on it, I was quite excited about an open source notation app but I want nothing to do with it because of their parent company.
- TylerE 3y agoTantacrul himself has questionable ethics at best. He posted a long video ripping on Dorico, got hired by MuseScore, and then stole many of the design elements he'd just been ranting about.
- jemmyw 3y agoI subscribe to ultimate guitar. The "official" tabs are worth it. Even though I'm subscribed I get sales emails about their courses or something and I could not unsubscribe because whatever they use for newsletters is adblock blacklisted. So eventually I just marked it as spam, which means account related emails from them will also go to spam.