Welcome to the Zong! blog. Zong! is a new music notation software which is currently developed by Xenoage Software. In this blog, we will talk about the latest news and will also discuss related topics like MusicXML or programming. We appreciate your feedback, so please tell us if you have any ideas how we can improve our software 🙂
Zong! consists of two parts: On the one hand, we will release the Zong! Viewer as free software, probably under the GPL. This application allows to view, print and playback MusicXML files, and is available both as a desktop application and as an applet, which means, that it can be used without any installation in every webbrowser supporting Java. Here is a screenshot of an early version of the viewer, running in a browser window:

On the other hand, there is the Zong! Editor, which includes all features of the viewer but also allows creating and editing scores. We hope that this commercial application will finance our work.
We plan to release the viewer in late 2009, and we hope to publish a first beta version of the editor in late 2010. Stay tuned!