Hubhopper vs. Sibelius

Hubhopper is the best tool to create podcasts and publish them from literally anywhere in the world. Also, they have a free listener platform where users can listen to the podcasts, anyone. It's really a good place to hang out, especially for our employees where we encourage them to hear podcasts of famous persons/motivators. We use Hubhopper to create podcasts from our channel and share them with our employees.

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It is simply easy to use and serves the function that it needs to serve. Once you get the hang of the basic functionality and a few of the keyboard shortcuts, it will be extremely easy and quick to write out music. The option to go back and transpose to another key without writing the whole thing out again is crucial.

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• Can edit audio in the application itself
• Can create podcasts from the anywhere using the app
• in detailed analytics about user data

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• Once you get the hang of it, it will be faster than writing by hand.
• Very easy to transpose and write out band arrangements.
• "search" tool is very useful for figuring out what tool you need in each specific situation.

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• User analytics is really hard to interpret as the data representation is complex
• The app crashes at some point of time making the audio recorded will be lost forever
• Sometimes its hard to publish the podcasts as the app is still having some bugs

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• Barrier to entry could be a bit lower.
• Options for types of arrangements are somewhat limited and the interface is a bit convoluted.

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Once Sibelius is purchased, the user is given one year of unlimited free customer service to help in using the product. After that first year, users can either pay to utilize customer service with questions or use online helps, which are very helpful. One of the bigger issues I had was getting the sounds to work properly because my Internet connection wasn't consistently working well enough to accommodate the large files, which were taking up to 10 hours to download. The download would fail, and then I'd have to start over. I wanted to get a CD sent to me but was told this would be very costly, and so I declined. I wasn't happy with the lack of customer service in that situation but was eventually able to get the files to download and the software working properly.

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It's simple and easy to use plus our employees love the app, except with some issues in the app everything is okay, and it's super easy to create and publish the podcast. Really easy to edit the audios in the platform and has the podcast listener portal used for free. Also, the player plugin is really simple and works well.

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I have not used Finale exclusively, but I know friends/colleagues who have. In the past, it was complicated to transfer and edit any of the music they created for me because it would not transfer to Sibelius. As a result, I would have to request the edits I wanted and ask them to make the changes themselves. If I wanted to make any changes later, it was extremely inconvenient to do so, and I often chose not to, as I did not want to bother anyone other than myself to do any edits after-the-fact. Though it is now possible to transfer Finale files to Sibelius through creating .xml files and then importing as .sib files, the files still do not entirely retain all of the integrity of the original composition (as completed in Finale). Sometimes text and markings are missing, microscopic, or shifted once opened in Sibelius. Text fonts must often be edited. When working with other major music publishers, it has been extremely convenient and helpful to have the same software.

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• Increase in employee efficiency
• Better managing of podcasts
• Enable users to create podcasts easily
• Manage everything on the app

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• Digital files are easily distributed to customers/no shipping costs.
• Collaboration with other sheet music retailers has been established and maintained.

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