ConcertWare

File Format
Name	ConcertWare
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Audio and Music ConcertWare
Type Code	CWMF
Released	1984

ConcertWare is a music scoring program, which lets users create sheets of music, listen to them, and send then to a physical printer. It was released for the Mac in 1984 by Chad Mitchell, where it seems to have been a popular program in this category. In 1995, by which point it had been taken over by a company called "Jump! Music", a Windows version was also released; however, the program evidently did not catch on there as well as it did for the Mac, and so the company that produced it seems to have gone out of business some time around 2000, which was when their website went offline.

Identification

ConcertWare files use the type code CWMF and the creator code CWMW. It is not clear what the extension used by the Windows version was.

Software

• Mac version, 1995, from the Internet Archive
• A broken (only the start of the disk has been copied) copy of what looks like the Windows version from the Internet Archive

Links

• Version 1.5.9 FAQs, Mac
• Version 2.0.2 FAQs, Windows
• A personal case study in digital obsolescence
• Wikipedia:ConcertWare