This is a great piece of accompaniment software - there is no argument there.

If I could export to reasonably priced notation software, I would do it in an instant. But, and it is a big BUT, you cannot export the information you need to recreate the notation. Unless something has changed, you cannot ship chord letters (Dm, Emaj7 etc) and you can't ship the lyric structure (repeats, DSalcoda etc) which are vital for notation.

Now Musescore reads a BIAB file and attemps to produce notation from it, but from what I have seen it is rudimentary, and certainly not worth investing any time in to make it work. I am also not about to rewrite all of my music to another piece of software, that would be a huge effort. If BIAB / PGMusic can't produce notation that looks like sheet music, then let's get an interface with something that can. I need the same quality in the notation that I have in the accompaniment. I am sure it's not an easy task, or it would have been done years ago. Just 'fess up, and let's move on.

PGMusic, under the tab for OTHER SOFTWARE, already lists Finale and PrintMusic as third party software "to complement your PG Music software". So lets find a way for it to do exactly that. PrintMusic is $99. I'd gladly pay that if it could read, interpret and print from a BIAB file. The last I knew it could not.

My point is that with such a great product in BIAB, why do they short change the notation? Some of us need the fake book - I envy those that can do without it. I can do without much of BIAB but I don't complain when it gets updated (or fixed). It's time for NOTATION to shine as bright as the rest of the product.


BIAB for Windows Version 2019 (643)
Windows 10 (1909)