This page provides an overview over the goals of the Zong! project.
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- Musicians are instrumentalists, singers or conductors, both on an amateur or professional level.
- Composers are composers, arrangers or other people which write or edit scores, like conductors or teachers.
- Publishers want to share scores, work with a lot of files and multiple programs. For example, a webmaster of a music search engine or a teacher may be a publisher.
- Developers are programmers, which want to improve the software or create their own software based on Zong!.
Use case descriptions
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Musician
- View sheet music: A musician can view scores on any of this computer devices (PC, laptop, tablet, smartphone). He can scroll and zoom the pages, and he can change the page layout.
- Print sheet music: A musician can print the scores on paper and to PDF files.
- Listen to sheet music: A musician can listen to the playback of scores. He can change the instrument sounds, use soundbanks (like SoundFont) and store the playback to audio files (like MIDI, OGG or MP3).
- Import other sheet music: A musician can open MusicXML and MIDI files in Zong!, which were created in other music notation software.Export sheet music: A musician can save his scores in many different image and audio formats. The MusicXML export allows the musician to open his scores in other music notation programs.
Composer
- Edit sheet music: A composer can create scores from scratch or modify existing ones. He can use the keyboard, mouse and a MIDI keyboard to insert notes. He can change the layout of the page and insert texts and images.
Publisher
- Share sheet music: A composer publisher can share his work over the internet, so that his customers or students can easily open his sheets from their own computer within Zong!.
- Export sheet music: A publisher can save his scores in many different image and audio formats. The MusicXML export allows the musician to open his scores in other music notation programs.
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- Convert sheet music: A publisher can convert his scores between various formats. Batch processing is possible.
Developer
- Extend Zong!: Since the software is free and open source, any Java developer can extend Zong! or write plugins.
- Use Zong! components: A developer can integrate Zong! components in his own software, e.g. show a score viewer in his app or generate preview images of MusicXML files. Zong! provides well-documented components and example programs for making integration easy.
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