Podcasts about file info

You sent more questions than one episode could hold, so we split them in two. Part one was brought to you by two letters: AI. This is everything else in the mailbag, from the practical side of the music notation software and technology world. Philip Rothman and David MacDonald work through the rest of the mailbag: an iPad that won’t behave like a desktop, an app that has gone quiet, a singing plug-in that is rapidly evolving, world instruments that have to be taught to a notation program, a page somebody has to read at tempo, organizing a lifetime of files, keeping current with operating systems, and — perhaps the most practical question of all — our take in response to a question from a young copyist asking how any of this becomes a living. The answers range over layout options and staff sizes, expression maps and subscription libraries, file metadata and backup schemes, security updates and Apple silicon, and a set of accessibility guidelines deserving of wider recognition. Believe it or not, there are a few things here we plainly don’t know. Underneath most of it is the same instinct: keep the things you control in good order, and keep an exit from the things you don’t. Export the files. Learn the search box. Test the backup. Ask the player what size they can actually read. And never underestimate the value of a performance librarian in your corner. Thanks to everyone who wrote in. We take questions and suggestions year-round at podcast@scoringnotes.com. Products mentioned Notation software and apps Sibelius (Avid) — desktop, iOS/iPadOS, Android and Chromebook Dorico (Steinberg) MuseScore Studio (Muse Group) StaffPad Cantai (Turing Opera Workshop) forScore SheetCue Sample libraries, expression maps, and playback Spotlight Collection (Native Instruments) Phoenix Orchestra (Orchestral Tools) ComposerCloud+ and the RA and Silk collections (EastWest) Musio (Cinesamples) Soniccouture Art Conductor 26 Dorico (Babylonwaves) NotePerformer (Wallander Instruments) Hardware Stream Deck (Elgato) Steam Deck (Valve) MacBook Neo (Apple) Surface (Microsoft) Files, backup, and organization Airtable Dropbox Backblaze LOCKSS — lots of copies keep stuff safe NYC Music Services / Notation Central Scoring Express Notation Express Norfolk fonts for Sibelius Previous Scoring Notes posts and podcast episodes The Q&A episodes Q & A(I) (part one of this two-parter) Half-time report: what’s new, and a call for your questions (the call that brought these in) You have questions, we have answers (2025) Asked and answered, part 1 and part 2: in awe of the DAW (2023) Sibelius for iPad and mobile The history and future of Sibelius for iPad (podcast with Sam Butler and Joe Plazak, August 2021 — the design rationale, in their own words) Sibelius arrives on iPad (review, 2021) NAMM 2026: An Avid Sibelius discussion with Sam Butler and Joe Plazak and the companion podcast Comma sense: Command Search in Sibelius Sibelius 2026.6 makes cross-staff notation no accident (auto-save on mobile, accessible touch navigation, Quick Look, Cantai support) Sibelius 2026.2 cleanses the palette (dark mode and score colors) StaffPad StaffPad is a music handwriting app (March 2015, the original Surface release) StaffPad wows with long-awaited iPad release and new free StaffPad Reader (February 2020) David William Hearn and StaffPad (podcast, 2020) StaffPad acquired by Muse Group; audio support planned (May 2021) StaffPad brings live recordings into your scores with new audio update StaffPad “captures” the imagination — and your piano performance StaffPad updates go beyond just keeping the lights on (podcast with David William Hearn, November 2023) Private equity exits Muse Group amidst MuseScore Studio leadership changes Everything we’ve written about StaffPad Cantai Cantai now sings straight from Dorico (review) Cantai 3.0.0 supports Sibelius; adds ensembles, Spanish language Richard deCosta gives your score a voice (podcast, May 2026) Dorico 6.2.20 released with Cantai vocal synthesis support and Dorico 6.2.30, which added independent Cantai voice playback Sibelius 2026.5 adds VST3 support Readability, page size, and accessibility SheetCue turns your scores into a practice flow, part of our Overture series of first looks Brief thoughts on the size of music paper The point of point sizes Orchestra librarians want you to know about parts and paper sizes Archiving, file management, and backup Get organized with music notation files (podcast) Half notes: Jane Cross on keeping music files safe (the LOCKSS conversation) File renaming and PDF Batch Utilities (podcast) Restore the link in File Info fields in Sibelius Exporting PDFs from Dorico with better filenames Sibelius 2026.8 improves lines and cross-staff ties (macOS Spotlight support, including search inside .sib files) Operating systems and platforms Music notation software and macOS Tahoe Notion Mobile 3.5 released with support for Linux, Windows on Arm devices Finale’s twilight zone and Leaving Finale behind Making a career of it With freelancing comes responsibility (podcast with Paul Beck, August 2025 — the episode Philip refers to) An interview with librarian Paul Beck How to charge for music preparation Welcome to the new Scoring Notes (how a Sibelius blog became this one) Other references UK Association for Accessible Formats: music, and their guidance on modified stave notation (PDF) RNIB: modified stave notation Windows 10 Consumer Extended Security Updates, now running through October 12, 2027 Using Intel-based apps on a Mac with Apple silicon — Apple on Rosetta and its retirement StarCraft II Elaine Gould, Behind Bars: The Definitive Guide to Music Notation (Faber Music)

We have a party talking all about part preparation. This is one of our most requested topics from listeners, and we're happy to oblige in this first of a two-part episode. Philip Rothman and David MacDonald use the parts preparation chapter from Elaine Gould's music notation reference book Behind Bars as a framework for discussing this essential step in making the best performance materials possible. We start with the staff size, and what's too small, too big and just right, and how it relates to page size and margins. Headers, page numbers and other labels are next in our discussion, and we explore the best conventions that have developed, and why you need to always have them present. On we go to page turns, multimeasure rests, clefs, and more, and how careful consideration of all those elements contribute to making a quality part. We span the low-tech to the high-tech in this episode — everything from the weight and thickness of paper to where to find the crucial settings in your favorite notation software. You won't want to part ways with this episode until it's finished, so let's get started. Behind Bars: The Definitive Guide to Music Notation, by Elaine Gould More from Scoring Notes: Score preparation and production notes Restore the link in File Info fields between score and parts in Sibelius A few brief thoughts about the size of music paper Smarter title pages for parts in Finale Smarter title pages for parts in Sibelius Working with master pages in Dorico, part 1 Working with master pages in Dorico, part 2 How to fix a common page numbering problem in Sibelius Working with page numbers in Sibelius View 2-page spreads in notation software and PDFs Go wild with text wildcards Three quick tips from engraving Copland

In this episode: News: Be a speaker at CreativePro events! Please fill out this form David and Anne-Marie presenting at Adobe MAX 2020 (free!) Our latest book, TypeTalk Vol. 1 by Ilene Strizver, now in PDF and print Adobe InDesign 2020 15.1.2 - bug fix and feature tweaks Adobe Fonts Gotchas Double-clicks you should try! OIFOTW: Paste Into State  News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Issuu is the all-in-one platform to create and distribute beautiful digital publications, from brochures to magazines to sales collateral and more. It’s perfect for creators, marketers, designers, educators, publishers, sales-people or anyone that wants to make eye-catching content. And Issuu makes it easy. Simply use the InDesign plug-in or upload your PDFs and files and Issuu transforms them using your vision and customizable templates to create the content you want. Check out their session at CreativePro Week 2020. >> Avenza Systems' MAPublisher (for Illustrator) and Geographic Imager (for Photoshop) are powerful tools for all graphic designers who want to dive more deeply into cartography and map making. Learn more by watching David's recent Facebook Live interview with Avenza, and see their session from CreativePro Week 2020. Links mentioned in this podcast: Fix for the problem when File Info opens off screen Adobe Font Gotchas info Adobe Community post about the "retiring" fonts Our post about the news (see Roger Black's comment) Adobe Help file and FAQ about retired subscription fonts Check on status of Adobe's type (and other) servers Our post about Great Double-clicks Using the Eyedropper to copy and paste object positions Here's the Adobe Help page about Paste Into State

Playing around with the gopher protocol.   Description of gopher from the 1995 book "Student's Guide to the Internet" by David Clark. Also, at the end of the episode is audio from an interview with Mark McCahilll and Farhad Anklesaria that can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR76UI7aTvsCheck out http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/ File Info: 27 Min, 13 MB.Ogg Link:https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk264/bsdtalk264.ogg

News: FreeBSD 6.1 is out.Interview with Karl Lehenbauer from www.flightaware.comFile Info: 18min, 8.4MB

Interview with KAME project core researcher Jun-ichiro "itojun" Itoh Hagino.Transcript:http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk115.txtFile Info: 10:45, 5MB.Ogg Link:https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk115/bsdtalk115.ogg

A quick update on AsiaBSDCon 2008 with Hiroki Sato and George Neville-Neil. More information at http://www.asiabsdcon.org/.File Info: 10 Min, 5MB.Ogg Link:https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk134/bsdtalk134.ogg

Interview with Wouter Wijngaards from NLnet Labs. We talk about the Unbound DNS resolver. More information at unbound.net.File Info: 13min, 6MB.Ogg Link:https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk176/bsdtalk176.ogg

If you are looking for even more BSD interviews, check out The BSD Show at http://webbaverse.com/shows/the-bsd-show.Interview with Mark Saad and George Neville-Neil about the NYCBSDCon 2010. Details can be found at http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2010/The conference will be at http://www.cooper.edu/, which for 150 years has admitted students based on merit alone and provided each with a full-tuition scholarship.File Info: 10min, 5MB.Ogg Link:https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk196/bsdtalk196.ogg

This episode is brought to you by last, used to show a list of the last logins to the system. Last appeared in 3.0BSD.Interview with Matt Olander and James T. Nixon. We talk about MeetBSD California 2010. More information at http://www.meetbsd.com/File Info: 12min, 6MB.Ogg Link:https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk198/bsdtalk198.ogg

This episode is brought to you by talk, the original instant messaging client. The talk command appeared in 4.2 BSD.Interview with John Hixson. We talk about his work on PC-Sysinstall, the PC-BSD installer and possible alternative to the FreeBSD sysinstall.File Info: 14min, 7MB.Ogg Link:https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk199/bsdtalk199.ogg

This episode is brought to you by netstat, a command to show the network status. The netstat command appeared in 4.2BSD.Interivew with Kjell Wooding. We talk about the mg text editor. More information can be found in the OpenBSD man page: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mgFile Info: 14min, 7MB.Ogg Link:https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk200/bsdtalk200.ogg

Interview with Ingo Schwartze and Kristaps Dzonsons at BSDCan 2011. We talk about mdocml and man pages. More information at http://mdocml.bsd.lv/File Info: 32 min, 15MB.Ogg Link:https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk204/bsdtalk204.ogg

Interview with Mohammed Farrag about the ArabBSD project.The ArabBSD website https://sites.google.com/site/arabbsd/Contact us (Calling for Volunteers )webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/arabbsd/contactsFreeBSD Summer Course Tutorials https://sites.google.com/site/arabbsd/freebsd-summer-courseFile Info: 15min, 7MB.Ogg Link:https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk207/bsdtalk207.ogg

Interview with Michael W. Lucas at BSDCan 2013.  We talk about some of his recent books including Absolute OpenBSD 2nd edition and DNSSEC Mastery.You can find him at www.michaelwlucas.comFile Info: 28 Min, 14 MB.Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk228/bsdtalk228.ogg

Recording of the vBSDCon 2013 talk "Migrating from GCC to LLVM/CLANG" with David Chisnall.File Info: 1hour, 31MB.Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk233/bsdtalk233.ogg

A recording from a MeetBSD California 2014 talk titled "WhatsApp: Half a billion unsuspecting FreeBSD users" by Rick Reed.File Info: 56 Min, 27MB.Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk250/bsdtalk250.ogg

Creative Cloud discount extended; All About GREP; Quizzler Results (filenames of links); Obscurity of the Week: Jump Object ------------- Listen in your browser: InDesignSecrets-180.mp3 (18.8 MB, 35:30 minutes) See the Show Notes for links mentioned in this episode. The transcript of this podcast will be posted soon. Creative Cloud subscription discounted rate extended! All about GREP in InDesign Quizzler results: The right and wrong answers, and the winner! (See list of answers at the end of this post) Obscure InDesign Feature of the Week: Jump Object News and special offers from our sponsors: >> Certitec, an Adobe Authorized Training Partner in the UK, offers Adobe DPS (Digital Publishing Suite) 2-day Pro and Enterprise courses in London and Cardiff. NEW for students who are funding their training themselves (not from a company): a 25% discount on any course when you quote "InDesign Secrets." (If you forget to say "InDesignSecrets" then you only get 20% off.) 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Please follow-up with an e-mail, which we will keep private, including any additional information that you'd like us to know. -- Links mentioned in this podcast: > Creative Cloud subscription offer is $29.99/mo instead of $49.99/mo for first year for any CS3+ upgrader > Adobe's Creative Cloud product page > Our stab at explaining why CC users get new features on the fly but "perpetual" licensees have to wait > We talked about GREP way back in episode 80!  Here's the transcript > Our favorite GREP Resources and GREP Expressions for InDesign > David's lynda.com video InDesign CS4: 10 Things to Know About GREP > Michael Murphy's Learning GREP with InDesign lynda.com course > Convert uppercase to lower with GREP, post 1 and post 2 > Creating a filename list of linked images, post 1 and post 2 > Clients from Hell web site -- QUIZZLER ANSWERS In podcast 179, we asked listeners: "How many ways in InDesign can you figure out the filename of a placed image without using the Links panel or Links panel menu?" The winning entry was submitted by Jim Leonardson, InDesign freelancer in Chicago! For his prize, he chose an autographed copy of Real World InDesign CS6, which is on its way. Here is Jim's list: In the Info panel flyout menu; select File Info to see the image name in the Title of the window Hover the cursor over the link icon in the upper left corner of the image frame. A tool tip appears with the file name. In the Structure pane of the document window, flip down the Root tag, and other tags until you see the “href” and the full path name (In the contextual menu “Select in Structure”) [ED: after first applying an XML tag to the image with the Tags panel] Use the Layers panel; flip down the layer name to show the contents. The link name is shown inside angle brackets. In the Preflight panel, if there is a broken link or document profile violation the link name will be shown. Use the Object > Captions menu or contextual menu to generate a caption. Use the contextual menu, in the Graphics flyout menu select Reveal in Finder, Bridge or Mini-Bridge. If there is a caption that happens to be overflowed, it can be seen in the story editor, tagged as “Text variable live metadata caption name” [We didn't think this should count but it's interesting because it has "Story Editor" in it] In the Package dialog box, under Links and Images it displays name, type, page, status and ICC profile. [He thought of this one "while doing yard work" after we told him he'd won] A wonderful effort, but Jim missed a few. Here are additional correct answers, compiled from all the entries we received: Add image to Library, name appears in Library preview Select image and open the Animation panel, name populates the Name field Apply any preset animation to the image to see its filename in the Timing panel Add image to Articles panel [pulls the filename from the Layers panel, see Jim's #4 above] In the File > Package dialog box, click the Show Report button, all image filenames are listed there [listen to our argument about this in the podcast — fun times!] Add an Image Name variable (Type > Text Variables > Insert Variable > Image Name) to a text frame that touches the image If the image name was included in its XMP metadata [not a default state, and not something you could do in InDesign] you could reveal it by choosing the relevant XMP field in the Object Export Options > Alt Text (or Tagged PDF) area Option/Alt-double click to Edit Original (or choose the command from contextual menu), name is revealed in native editing program. [Technically not an "in InDesign" solution but it's fairly close] Export to EPUB or HTML and look in the mark-up code [Ditto] Use a script that creates a list of filenames [see Links above] Final note: We love that Bonnie Barrett told us in her entry that she tried to find one in CS6's Content Collector — great idea! — but, alas, no luck.

Want to let the world know who made your photo? Then choose File Info. Here you can assign a title, an author (you!), a copyright, and a Web site. No image should go out without a visit to File Info.