If you should be in a situation where you have updated to a newer version of Sibelius, you might experience an issue on MACs where when you click “Specify Licence Server” after you input your license server’s IP address, you are returned to the Try Sibelius window again.
To resolve this you can build the license server file manually:
On a client machine, start a Terminal Window
cd /Library/Application\ Support/Avid sudo mkdir Sibelius sudo chmod -R 775 Sibelius cd Sibelius sudo mkdir _manuscript cd _manuscript sudo touch LicenceServerInfo sudo chmod -R 775 LicenceServerInfo vi LicenceServerInfo
Input your license server’s IP address
:wq
Close Terminal and Start Sibelius.
The Sibelius client should now see the Licence Server on the IP in question and launch as a network client.
Now you can copy the ‘Sibelius’ folder containing the Licence Server Info file from MacHD > Library > Application Support > Avid from that machine and paste it into the same location on other affected machines. If you have a lot of clients, you can do this with your MDM solution.
The option to checkout a license has had a bug in it on MAC clients, starting at Mountain Lion, I think, since Sibelius version 7.1. Sibelius has not been able to fix this issue and the only workaround they have is to provide local licenses.
MuseScore looks like an excellent piece of notation software, available for MAC, PC and Linux, for free. You can save scores from Sibelius in MusicXML format and open them directly in MuseScore.