The beta of Flash Player 10 has been out there for a while, and we’ve done more than just kick the tires.  Flash Player 10 brings some really important improvements to Noteflight in the audio area (and we lobbied Adobe pretty hard for those changes, along with our friends in the Adobe Make Some Noise campaign).

The new Noteflight Beta 2.1 supports these improvements by automatically detecting Flash Player 10 and using the new features and APIs if it finds them present.  The most immediate improvement for Noteflight users is a steadier playback, especially on Windows computers, with no rhythmic hiccups.  The short delay before beginning playback is also gone: the music starts much faster.

Flash Player 10 will enable some other important improvements that will follow soon:

• Some instrument sounds will use MP3 compression, for higher quality and faster startup
• Forthcoming MIDI and MusicXML import/export features will not require a server round trip

Altogether we’re really excited about what Adobe has done in Flash 10, and it’s going to make a big difference for our service!

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