I've tried MuseScore 2.0....OMG, OMG!!!
I tried to install the nightly on my Ubuntu 12.04 machine...didn't work. It asked oh so much dependencies, libraries, upgrading this, installing that and what not. Searching on the net, someone recommended to upgrade the distro. Given that previously I had some troubles with upgrades, after which I always returned to 12.04, decided to go with all those dependencies and stuff....and I messed up my system. So, decided to try the 14.04 once again, then go through the whole process of optimizing and setting it up, installed the Qt5 stuff, doubleclicked the mscore executable and....wholy shit!!! What have you done to MuseScore?! It's so great :)) I love it, and it's just like, alpha?
I really like all the new features (foto mode, loop playback, the "everything you need right in front of you" UI design, not to mention that it can open guitar pro files! For the last I previously tried to use TuxGuitar, but there I couldn't zoom, and it all looked cluttered somehow, and I also have some eyes problem, so wasn't that much useful, but in MuseScore is perfect.
Now, since I'm posting in the "Feature request" section, I think that it would be great if you could make it to playback articulations, slides, slures, trills, arpeggios, and also if you could add swing option, it would be a dream come true notation program.
In the end, thank you all, good people, who developed this beautiful software :)
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Do realize that the main function of MuseScore is notation, not playback - the playback features are really intended more as a way of "proofreading" your work than a way of generating a polished performance.
That said, there are a number of playback improvements already implemented for 2.0, a number of others that may yet be added before release, and a number of others planned or at least strongly considered for afterwards. Several articulations and ornaments *do* playback already, as do arpeggios, and there is a decent chance swing will make it in due to the work of Google Summer of Code student shredpub (http://musescore.org/en/developers-handbook/google-summer-code/google-s…).
In reply to Do realize that the main by Marc Sabatella
Yes, I am perfectly aware of that, but besides being a great engraving tool, MuseScore serves a good purpose as an educational and compositional tool, and playing back those features (and rendering them into the MIDI export)would be a help.
P.S. The news about the swing feature are great, can't wait to see it implemented.