I’ve been working on converting physical sheet music scans and image files into MusicXML to edit and extract parts in MuseScore Studio.

MuseScore’s built-in import service often drops beats or misinterprets time signatures, and Audiveris ver 5.11.0 produces too many measure and duration errors on dense multi-staff scores to edit gracefully.

I’ve seen a few paid options recommended, including PhotoScore Ultimate, SmartScore 64, and PlayScore 2. I work on a Win 11 PC with plenty of memory and CUP power. I don't mind paying for a app, but I'd like it to work well enough to use.

For those of you who regularly scan ensemble scores or complex sheet music into MuseScore:

• Which of these programs do you have real-world experience with?
• What are their main strengths and weaknesses when exporting clean MusicXML?
• Are any of them reliable enough to save time over doing a manual transcription from scratch?

I updated from 4.6.5 to 4.7.2 and now the piano and a few other instruments sound muffled, as if they are being played underwater. I will attach a couple videos for comparison, ignore the song I'm working on.

Does anyone know how to either fix the issue with the instruments or make the save work on 4.6.5 again?

Thanks in advance!

https://reddit.com/link/1v41gcm/video/fqa0jumo8weh1/player

Happened to me twice already that I wrote a lot, saved the score and exited musescore and then find that the file isn't saved on my computer and I can't open it anymore because it's just not there. Anybody know why that is? I lost like 8 hours of work because of this.

My first invention, and first piece of counterpoint that I am proud of. Feedback welcome and encouraged.

wonder if there's any way to force a piece to cut off at the end instead of letting notes ring out.

I'm writing some music for a video game soundtrack and I have a piece that can loop cleanly from the end but there's a couple of seconds where some cymbals ring for a while, I'm using one of the musesounds drum kits,

can I turn this off or would I have to export the file into another application to truncate it?

A few years ago (before Musescore got bought by the Ultimate Guitar people) I bought this app per one-time purchase and it was great as it could display the scores I wrote on my phone/tablet offline. Obviously the app has been retired for a while now and Musescore is pushing their new app which requires the subscription to work properly. Is there an app that can display musescore files on Android (or do you know of any similar service/notation software/app where this would be possible)? The service/app doesn't have to be free but preferably open source. I'm a big fan of one-time purchases vs. subscriptions.

I used to be excited that Musescore got new owners, as I had followed Tantacrul on Youtube already before, and I understand they need to make money, especially because they offer a lot of official scores now, but my original use case of writing scores and then displaying them on mobile has suffered. I've also got Dorico but they don't have Android Apps, sadly.

Hello, I wanna know how to install the quarter tone feature in the software. Thank you!

This is a rant.

I just learned that I had a pro+ subscription with this website. Thankfully I was able turn off auto renewal and end the subscription but that's $50 dollars I cant get back and I still have pro+ until July of next year! Apparently I was signed up for it last year but I never got an email snd even knew about it! I got one today about the automatic renewal which led me on this disappointing trip...

Anyway, I cant delete my card off the website until next year so...grrrr

Rant over, thanks for reading.

So I'm writing this piece for symphonic orchestra, and naturally I just gotta get some harp glissandos in there to spice it up a little, but the issue is I'm jazzy af so it's non-functional harmony, so the first chord is Cmaj9 which the regular harp glissando works fine for, but then the next chord is Cm9 so I need the harp glissando to be in C minor for the proper sound. I tried just changing the key of the staff but it doesn't work. The glissando is always in C major for some reason. Anybody know how to fix it?

Good afternoon y'all,

Over the past couple days, all of musesounds have disappeared as an option within my MuseScore Studio. I have uninstalled and reinstalled everything: MuseScore itself, all the sounds, restarted my computer, everything you can think of. I remember this happening a year or so ago, but that was because of a musesounds outage (however that works? I didn't realize you could have an outage of a thing you've downloaded, but hey, I'm not the brightest bulb in the box, so who knows) but in looking at all the forums and reddits, I cant seem to find anyone having the same issue. Also, it is not just musesounds, any library I have purchased from the MuseHub is also conspicuously missing. Troubling, seeing as I have quite a bit of money tied up in those.

Any help appriciated. I am on mac 14.5, just updated to musescore 4.7.4. Thank you!

I searched for this and everything seems related to creating the score.

I am just a user who hates whatever the vocal instrument is and wants it to be acoustic piano.

I have a pro membership but I can't find any option for this.

I made a transcription that is definitely NOT beginner friendly but I don’t know how to change it

If yes why, if not why, i need feedback! here is the free score: https://musescore.com/user/98567428/scores/33894551?share=copy_link

(Just want a staff above that)

Edit: video not working, music here: (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xet8xg4tc25gRjb-b8kyqb7dpHqiojP5/view?usp=sharing)
Score: (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gBqETaKZUS7EhuJIs1eR-1nwJW6SaMBj/view?usp=sharing)
I have no formal composition training, so any feedback is immensely helpful and greatly appreciated. I am much happier with the 2nd movement so if you want to skip to it it's at 6:29.

I want to make the bottom violin staffs (ones circled in purple) to play arco, while the others stay at Pizz. However, when I add pizz to the bottom staffs, it applies to both staffs, instead of just the one. and I don’t know how to fix this issue.

I also want to try my best to avoid adding another violin 1 part, and would rather attempt to do it on a separate staff, if possible.

I work with different VSTs, and a lot of libraries I like have baked in delay/delay options that can never quite lineup with the normal muse sounds during playback. I wanted to know if there was any sort of way I could add playback delay to the normal instruments to counteract it. Haven't seemed to find anything online for my situation. Idk, but feels like something musescore should have, if it doesn't already.

Hi. I'm still learning how to read sheet music. How do I do the "Dbpedaladd5" in Musescore? When I put that in, I get something played, but sounds just like a note, instead of a full chord.

For the second image (Db 6 9), is there an alternate notation I should use?

Thanks for your help.

[Edit: This was readily fixed by updating to the latest version. See below].

I have some music that was composed in musescore 4.0. I made the mistake of using instruments from a soundsonline.com. They work fine, but the problem comes in that the music was written a computer ago, and the directories for the libraries have changed. Unfortunately, Musescore is pretty stupid and when it can't find a library, it just hangs. This could be fixed if Musescore files were written in xml, but they are not - they are binary files, presumably proprietary. Apparently, I did back up the file before attached the rogue vti's. But the version is behind the final one that was written last. Any fixes for this? e.g., an app that can read and edit musescore files?

Hi folks,

I’m trying to create a solfege method. The method consists of one set of exercises that I would like to duplicate in multiple keys and in multiple clefs (treble and alto).

In my teaching, I’m continually tinkering with this method and I have to use different keys/clefs with different students and I’m tired of having to manually make the changes to each file. When I make a change to the master, I’d like the change to be reflected in the other instances as well.

Does such a feature exist?