Noteflight - Online Music Symbol Software

Noteflight, LLC is located in Boston, Massachusetts, dedicated to reshaping the way people create, share, teach, purchase, and sell music scores. Our product not only improves other music symbol software: it allows sheet music to fully utilize all the functions of the network that we are familiar with today. Noteflight is a powerful full-featured application that allows for editing, displaying, and playing music scores in a standard web browser, and is integrated into an online music library that anyone can publish, link, or embed.

In 2007, we studied the development of music score software and found that applications for composing music were still in the past. We want to achieve several important goals:

Make online music creation and sharing simple. Music creators - whether they are hobbyists or professionals, students or teachers - will eventually want to share their music with others. But most music processing software regards the Internet as an afterthought: they are only suitable for saving music on your computer's hard disk, rather than sharing it with others. Sharing music scores online is a painful thing nowadays, but as software inventors, we know that doing so can do better. People hope to be able to create anytime, anywhere, and a large number of new browser based applications make it exceptionally easy to create and publish word processing documents or spreadsheets online. We believe that music documents should also be equally accessible.

Empower developers to build a brand new world of music and educational applications. Today's applications should not only be powerful tools, but also building blocks that can be combined in ways the creator never anticipated. A truly powerful music application should be extensible without the need to open it and change the code. Adding new instruments and symbols, or embedding them on the page and establishing new types of connections with other content - all of these should be possible. A great tool not only allows creative people to use its built-in features, but also expands them and freely reorganizes them in new ways. As software thinking pioneer Bertrand Meyer once said, "A true system has no top

Encourage an active user community by providing basic features for free. Music symbol software suppliers continue to charge high prices for boxed software, CD and DVD distribution media, and printed manuals. Then, once you purchase something, you can basically only use it until the next major upgrade cycle arrives, when you pay again. All of this is to be able to do something very basic: process music scores on a computer. In this era, the production or usage cost of basic software should not be so high, and it should be continuously improved instead of once a year. A healthy, vast, and diverse user community creates the greatest value for the world and our business.

From these observations, we have identified a series of clear directions: to establish a music information database on the internet and provide tools for creating, publishing, reading, listening, and searching for music information. Provide extremely simple user interfaces and connect powerful features for these tools. Allow linking and bookmarking music scores like other web pages. Allow music to be embedded into anyone's web document (such as any image or video) and controlled using JavaScript. Collect music from around the world and return it to them anytime, anywhere when they need it. Provide all these basic services for free, and offer advanced services and additional components for those in need.