Phil Taylor's BarFly program for the Mac

Home: http://www.barfly.dial.pipex.com
Contact: aar09@dial.pipex.com (Phil Taylor)

Downloads

This is a mirror site for Phil Taylor's BarFly program for the Macintosh computer. Except for bug fixes, BarFly Classic and BarFly Old are no longer being actively developed. Read the software descriptions to determine the best version for you.

Download BarFly Carbon 1v73 as .zip or .sit

Use this version for OS X, or for OS 8.5 - 9.2 It will run native under any version of OS X, and also under Classic systems 8.5 or later provided that Carbonlib is installed. It has a better editor than the Classic version and can write files with line ends in Mac, PC or Unix format. It is now supplied both as a Zip file and as a Stuffit file. Apple no longer include Stuffit Expander in recent versions of OS X, while the Zip format is supported natively; however, older versions of Stuffit Expander won't open the Zip file correctly. If you are using OS X 10.3 or later download the .zip file; if you are using OS 9 or an older version of OS X download the .sit file. The contents of the two archives are identical.

Download BarFly Classic 1v57 (.sit)

This version is for use almost everywhere. Runs native on 680x0 Macs under systems 7.0-8.1. Runs native on PowerMacs under systems 7.6-9.2, and in the Classic layer of OS X.

Download BarFly Old 1v57 (.sit)

This version is for old Macs with 680x0 processors; it is packaged with an old version of Stuffit so that it can be unpacked with Stuffit Expander 4 under System 7.0. Get this version if you want to run BarFly under a Mac emulator on a PC, or if you use a Mac II, Quadra, Centris or LC etc. It does almost everything that the Classic version does, the only limitation being that it can only export pictures of the music in PICT format.

Features

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BarFly (Carbon) version 1.73 new features:

Registered users can now export any subset of tunes from an abc file, as pictures, Quicktime movies, Midi or AIFF audio files in a single operation.
There's a new command (Remove Selected Instrument) on the Instrument menu.
You can no longer install duplicate instruments in the Instrument menu.
There's a new popup menu in the Save As dialog which gives you the option to save a copy of the document as plain text without resources.
You can now undo a Paste Plain Text operation.
Plus several bug fixes (please check the "New in this version" from the BarFly Help menu for more info).

Version 1.73 also includes these features from previous releases.

There's a new Sort Tunes command which allows you to make a copy of a file of abc tunes sorted according to the contents of up to three header fields.
You can now use aliases for all the files that the program needs to find (macros, chord definitions, stress programs and all the documentation files).
There's a new BarFly Help menu which allows you to search the documentation and open any of the files directly without having to navigate to the documentation folder.
Can display music using shape notes. Both Sacred Harp and Aiken systems are supported.
In multivoice abc you can now use descriptive labels in V: fields, e.g. [V:Treble].
There is a new utility command to convert a whole file of tunes containing old-style V: fields to the newer format.
Added Command-key equivalents for many more menu commands.
The Paste Plain Text command now has its own menu entry.
There is a new Enter Search Text command in the editor.
Midi export has been re-written to bypass Quicktime, thus avoiding a long-standing bug which caused long notes to be truncated and play staccato. The program can now export Midi files in format 0 or format 1 (format 1 is more efficient for tunes where the voices use different instruments, and is required for import into some notation programs).
Uses Quartz antialiasing for all text (requires OS 10.1.5 or later).
Text editor can handle embedded pictures.
There's a new routine to make incipit indexes (cheat sheets).
Exports Quicktime TUNE resources.
Includes features of version 1.57

BarFly 1.57 offers the following features:

A new utility command to change the default note length in a single tune, or a whole file of tunes.
Progress display for utilities which operate on whole files.
Transpose routine has been re-written (no longer makes enharmonic errors when transposing tunes with accidentals).
Options set in the Line Ends sub-menu are now saved in the %%Bfly line when you record options in a tune.
The Line Ends sub-menu has been moved to the View menu where it should always have been.
Many bug fixes.

Add-Ons

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abcm2ps

BarFly, as of version 1.5, uses a graphical interface to pipe abc files to Jean-Francois Moine's abcm2ps, outputting Postscript tunebooks. The ABC Plus Project at Sourceforge is home to a precompiled version of abcm2ps for Mac OS X.

MacGhostView

BarFly also seemlessly passes abcm2ps files to Thomas Kiffe's MacGhostView macps2pdf module to create print-ready PDF tunebooks.