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I need to quench my thirst for knowledge and learn something new just for the sake of it.

I've already learned:

  • Equations and pivot tables in Excel

  • Vector graphics in Inkscape

  • Music mixing in rekordbox

  • Personal VPN on a raspberry pi 4 with OpenVPN

  • LAMP stack web hosting

  • Streaming & video capture with OBS

  • Manual & automatic backups with FreeFileSync

Things I'm open to:

  • FOSS (even beta) or free-as-in-beer software

  • A high or low learning curve

  • Tools for niche fields that I'd otherwise have no reason to learn

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[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)
  • MuseScore 4 is a (the!) free music notation software. It is genuinely fantastic. It's also a lot of fun, if you know some notation basics and want to play around.
  • Darktable is a Raw photo editor in the vein of Lightroom. Except where lightroom is sleek, polished, user friendly and Adobe (🤮), Darktable is FOSS, and clearly so both in the design and functionality: it could easily make a UX designer cry, but if you're willing to give it a try, there does not exist a more potent raw editor on this earth. Lightroom is a toy in comparison. (Now whether you need that is another question... But I've been using it for more than 10 years, and am still finding new, incredibly useful sub-menus, drop-down contexts on hidden sliders,...)
  • rmpc is a really cool TUI music player
[–] hitstun@feddit.online 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

MuseScore 4

Go for it! People make hilarious sheet music with that, like Swan Lake But It's Hunting Season (headphones users: it gets loud!).

You killed him! NOW IT'S JUST "Lake"!

Lmao this is fantastic, thank you.

[–] gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Do you know if MuseScore is able to import old files from Finale? That’s what used to use and not Finale is defunct and I’m not able to get at any of my old scores. Don’t see a FAQ on their page.

[–] hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 9 hours ago

I've found it it works best exporting to musicxml from finale. Musesccore and most other notation software supports musicxml, and it works recently well as s go-between.

[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I know you can import .midi files, it might work by exporting as a MIDI (if possible) and trying it that way?

[–] gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Well the problem is that I can no longer install Finale on my system and from what I’ve read, you’d need to use Finale to convert .musx files to Xtml for import. I might have to find another way or bug a friend of mine who might still have Finale to do it for me.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

Have you tried a virtual machine?