Exploring and Testing LIDA

The only people we have using LIDA as of today are the Beta Test Team. I am tremendously grateful for every one of them, but I am most grateful for those who are actively getting into LIDA and giving it a good workout. There are really two phases of working with LIDA...

AVAST! … and LIDA

One of the most popular anti-virus programs is AVAST, a free program that has a very good reputation for helping keep your computer free of infections. There is no question there will be some users of LIDA in the future who will have this program installed on their...

And On the Third Day…

Okay, here we are in the third day of the LIDA Beta Test phase, and we are already discovering a number of issues we never anticipated before this. Most of these issues are Microsoft’s Fault! (Innocent look.) Seriously, every single one of the issues we are...

Multiple-User Access to LIDA

Several beta testers and some potential purchasers have already asked, “Can more than one person use LIDA at the same time?” The short answer is YES. But it comes with a couple of yellow flags, and some considerations. The first thing to consider is...

Managing Multiple Libraries In LIDA

One of the questions that has been in my mind since before I started building LIDA is “How do we handle organizations that need to manage more than one music library?” An example of this might be a community band that has a Concert Band, a Swing Band, an...