Format
Enigma Binary File (Finale)
Summary
- Name
- Enigma Binary File (Finale)
- Version
- 1
- Identifiers
- PUID: fmt/1971
- Format type
- Dataset
- Description
- A Finale (notation) document file used through Finale 2012. Enigma Binary File created for music notation software Finale. Finale was originally created for Coda Music Software, later sold to Net4Music which then became MakeMusic. Originally made for MacOS in 1988 it was later made available in Microsoft Windows. The Enigma stands for 'Environment for Notation Intuitive Graphic Music Algorithms'.
- Note
- https://preservation.tylerthorsted.com/tag/font/ https://web.archive.org/web/19990203113959/http://www.codamusic.com:80/down/finale/eeppd.txt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finale_(scorewriter) http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Finale
- File extensions
-
mus - Submitted by
- Brigham Young University / Brigham Young University
Relationships
- Is previous version of
Internal signatures
Enigma Binary File (Finale) v.1
- Description
- BOF; Offset: 0; Magic Bytes: 'Finale' followed by either 'ª' or '™' and then the version number ' 1'
- Provenance
- v.123- Signature updated to allow for different PC versions. Submitted by Brigham Young University.
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 0
- Byte Sequence
46696E616C65(AA|28544D29)(20|20504320)31- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
V123
- Release date
- 9 June 2026
-
Updated
Enigma Binary File (Finale) 1: Signature updated to allow for different PC versions. Submitted by Brigham Young University.
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V118
- Release date
- 30 April 2024
-
Added format
Enigma Binary File (Finale) 1: Full entry added. Submitted by Brigham Young University.
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Added signature
Enigma Binary File (Finale) 1: Signature researched and samples provided by Brigham Young University.