Rigged - pay to print
The fact that you just want to find some sheet music to print out, find this new website AND YOU NEED TO PAY MONEY just to download something. I can't believe inflation these days make everything to involve money. This is inhumanely RIGGED and I do not know why this website is able to resist cancelation.
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_ this new website_ and AND YOU NEED TO PAY MONEY are contradictions, as this website, musescore.org, is entirely free
The related website, musescore.com, has many scores which are downloadable free of charge, no subscription, just a completely free membership.
Scores which require payment are subject to copyright and the site owners have to pay royalties to the copyright holders to allow such scores to be available on the site legally. It does not seem unreasonable to be charged to download copyrighted scores.
So, you think that someone should not receive some recompense for working hard for hours/days/weeks to transcribe a piece of music, nor receive any pay for their skill and work to create a new piece of music?
Well, have I got a deal for you! I want you to spend the next year, 8 hours a day, 7 days a week, transcribing a 1,000-page book of music, and then just give it away. "No one would do that!" I hear you cry. That's what you are asking of the transcribers and composers of the music at musescore.com.
Happens there is LOTS of music that is available for free at that site. And other sites. But if someone wants to be paid for their work, you whine and whimper "Rigged". What a jerk!
And then you come HERE, to musescore.org, a completely other site, and whine about it here, instead of there. What a triple jerk!!!
In reply to So, you think that someone… by TheHutch
Don't hold back, Hutch. Tell us how you really feel!
In reply to So, you think that someone… by TheHutch
Pretty much uncalled for, Hutch. Part of the problem is that someone new opens MuseScore.com and the first thing they see about signing up for a paid account. And not very good instructions for getting a free account. This happens all the time. We don't really know what the OP delt with.
In reply to Pretty much uncalled for,… by bobjp
I disagree that it was uncalled for. It looks to me like OP was quite clear in what they dealt with. "YOU NEED TO PAY MONEY just to download something." They opened the website and were immediately upset that they had to pay for something. The vast majority of sites on the web where there is something of value, they make it clear that you're going to pay up front. Amazon has prices listed fairly prominently.
I agree that someone who has paid and can't get a refund would have room to complain. I agree that someone who feels that a site has used 'bait and switch' tactics (as has been alleged) would have room to complain. But this person said quite clearly that he just saw that the website asked for money and freaked out.
My response was calm and mostly non-confrontational. The only vaguely "confrontational" part was a clearly mock challenge, asking them to look at the situation from the other side. (And this response is equally calm and completely non-confrontational. If you feel I've sounded otherwise, please don't take it so; I definitely don't mean it so.)
In reply to I disagree that it was… by TheHutch
And I said "pretty much" only. He had been answered already. Perhaps your mock challenge was clear to you. You have no idea how it was received. Consider that there is no clear place to go for someone new to the .com site if they have a problem. Many end up on this forum out of frustration, and are upset.. Hard to blame them.
Written communication can be easily misunderstood. All it takes is one word to result in a problem. How I intend something isn't always how it is received.