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Finale - How Music Software Dies (2025x1)

Air date: May 02, 2025

Finale: once the industry-standard of music notation software, now a cautionary tale. In this video, I explore how it slowly lost its crown through decades of missed opportunities - eventually leading to creative collapse due to various bureaucratic intrigues, unforeseen technological changes and some of the jankiest UI/UX you've ever seen. This marks the final part in my series on interface design and notation software, which had previously looked at Sibelius, MuseScore and Dorico.