Web application / Music & collaboration

Noti — Digital Score Library

Private application

A self-hosted score library for concert organization, private musician sharing, PDF print preparation and network print queues.

Noti — Digital Score Library
Noti — score library, concert folders and print preparation.
Noti — score library, concert folders and print preparation.
A CLOSER LOOK

See the workflow.

Illustrated workflow · sample interface. The application requires authorised access.

Organise the library
Prepare a concert
Share with musicians

A permanent music catalogue keeps works and their score material together.

Concert folders collect the prepared material for a programme; PDF tools support print preparation.

Private musician access distributes prepared parts without exposing the whole library.

About the project

A private notation library at noti.vso.bg. The application brings score organization and concert preparation into a shared workflow.

Concerts can be created and prepared scores shared with the orchestra’s musicians, helping keep the material for a programme together. Access requires an account.

INSIDE THE PROJECT

Features & capabilities

Explore the tools and workflows built into this project.

CAPABILITIES

Concert and score management

  • Organize concert folders in a directory tree with nested works and instrument parts. Upload complete folders while preserving their structure, including PDFs, images, Word documents and other files.
  • Create, rename and remove files or folders, and search within a selected folder or across concerts and archives.
  • Archive concerts automatically after their date, keeping existing share links active.
  • Recover deleted material from Trash for 30 days, to its original location or another folder. Print adjustments preserve original files, and conflicting filenames receive numbered suffixes.
CAPABILITIES

Private music catalogue

  • Keep a permanent score collection separate from active concerts and musician-facing pages. Import an existing composer/work/part hierarchy from server storage.
  • Browse composers 20 per page with work counts and expandable pieces. Search by composer, work, catalogue number or instrument using file and folder names.
  • Case- and accent-insensitive matching includes common English/Bulgarian composer and instrument aliases.
  • Copy complete works or selected parts into concerts without changing catalogue originals. Imports, copies and comparisons continue on the server after the browser closes.
CAPABILITIES

Catalogue enrichment

  • Compare uploaded concert material with the permanent collection and review proposed additions, composer/work destinations and new folders before confirming them.
  • Reuse approved naming associations, detect identical files despite different filenames and separate alternative editions or arrangements into their own folders.
  • Cache file fingerprints for later comparisons. Protected rental material is excluded from catalogue enrichment.
CAPABILITIES

Private sharing and musician access

  • Musicians browse through a private link without registering an account. Share a concert or subfolder with access limited to its contents, or optionally share current, archived and future concerts through one link.
  • Ordinary links stay active until revoked. Librarians can review, copy and revoke them centrally.
  • Generate and download QR codes locally without sending private links to an external service.
  • A permanent whole-library musician invitation supports Pause/Resume while retaining notification subscribers.
CAPABILITIES

Musician PWA and notifications

  • Install the musician library on supported phones, tablets and desktops, with touch-friendly Library, Search and Settings navigation.
  • Musicians can subscribe to push notifications through their invitation without creating an account. Librarians announce when concert material is ready; tapping an alert opens that concert.
  • Notifications follow the musician’s English/Bulgarian preference, with persistent delivery queues, retries and expired-subscription cleanup.
  • An offline screen explains connection loss. Private scores and library data are not cached for offline access.
CAPABILITIES

Protected rental scores

  • Apply folder restrictions to descendants, optionally with an access deadline. Stronger parent-folder protection remains in force.
  • Protected PDFs and supported static images use server-rendered previews with repeated diagonal PROTECTED watermarks instead of exposing originals to musicians.
  • The librarian retains access to original documents. This restricts original downloads; it cannot prevent screenshots or photographs of the screen.
CAPABILITIES

PDF print preparation

  • Use a full-screen workspace with large previews and collapsible controls. Select pages individually or by range when one PDF contains several instrument parts.
  • Detect margins and straighten scans automatically, with preview, cancellation and Undo. Fine-tune crop, rotation, deskew and print scale for individual pages or apply corrections to selected pages.
  • Save reusable correction presets, insert or remove blank pages, mark pages that must stay visible together and check page-turn conflicts.
  • Review facing pages and printed-sheet layouts, save preparations per PDF and export print-ready documents for use outside Noti.
CAPABILITIES

Network printing and queues

  • The configured Konica Minolta bizhub C257i supports A4 single-sided/duplex, A3 two-page spreads and A3 duplex booklets. The Brother HL-B2080DW profile provides A4 single-sided monochrome printing.
  • Send a proof copy before further copies. Printer profiles, queues and pause states are independent, and queued jobs/history survive restarts.
  • Monitor active jobs, waiting documents, recent results, printer status and CUPS status from the interface. Pause later documents when a problem occurs and recheck status when resuming.
  • Reuse request identifiers on retries to reduce duplicate submissions. Completion reflects the print service’s report, rather than physical verification of the sheets.
CAPABILITIES

Interface and accessibility

  • An obsidian dark interface combines a space-inspired background, translucent surfaces and readable text, with responsive layouts for desktop, tablet and phone.
  • English and Bulgarian cover navigation, dialogs, validation and printing tools. The browser remembers the language preference.
  • Open administrator PDF previews in the same tab and return with browser Back. Submit from print review without a repeated confirmation; leaving preparation discards unsaved adjustments without a warning.
CAPABILITIES

Security and deployment

  • One private librarian account uses password hashing and server-side sessions, with CSRF tokens, origin checks and rate limiting.
  • Cryptographically random share tokens have server-enforced folder boundaries. Catalogue masters stay separate from public links and musician searches.
  • Upload limits, path validation and controlled preview/download responses protect file handling.
  • Self-host with Docker on Unraid or a suitable server, using SQLite without a separate database server and persistent data volumes across container replacement.
  • Deploy behind HTTPS through a reverse proxy such as Nginx Proxy Manager. An optional private CUPS container provides network printing.

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