PianoBooster version 0.5.0 has just been released, this is the first ever release of PianoBooster. If you dabble in music and have a Midi Piano keyboard lying around then give PianoBooster a go as it actually makes sight reading music fun!!!!! To see what it is all about take a look at the screen shot: http://pianobooster.sourceforge.net/images/LinuxScreenShot.png First choose a MIDI file (the Easy Play Beethoven is a good one -- see the download page for where this can be found) then select which part that you want to play along with (e.g. the piano part or the strings part etc). Then select the "left" hand or the "right" hand or if you are feeling really brave choose "both hands" and try to play along. The "Follow You" mode make it really easy to sight read the scrolling notes as the whole accompaniment will stop and wait for you to find and play the right notes. The accuracy bar monitors how well you are playing. If you are skilled enough the accuracy bar will go right to the end and then turn blue. But every time you are too slow or playing out of time, then the accuracy bar slips back a bit. You can watch a video of it in action on YouTube: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7YaDllVreuM Piano Booster 0.5.0 is released under the GPL and is available at SourceForge on this page: http://pianobooster.sourceforge.net/download.html L o u i s B a r m a n