[Menvi-discuss] MuseScore

[Marc Sabatella]

MuseScore is free and open source notation software - no way to pay for it
even if you wanted to.  You might be thinking of the online score-sharing
website musescore.com, which offers both free and paid accounts, but you
don't need that to use MuseScore.  And if you do decide to create an
account on musescore.com, a free one is usually sufficient, unless you are
wanting to download copyrighted music like pop sheet music.

Now, as a totally separate thing, there is an experimental service for
importing PDF files - you access it via File / Import PDF, and it does go
over to musescore.com to run a program there.  But frankly, it's not worth
the effort it takes.  There is almost no chance the results will be usable
as is, and it usually takes a considerable amount of editing by a sighted
person able to compare to the original to get it to be close.  There are
commercial PDF importers that do better, but still, editing by a sighted
person able to compare to the original is normally needed - just maybe less
of it than using the service provided by MuseScore.

Marc

On Sat, Jun 3, 2023 at 9:34 AM Chris Cookee via Menvi-discuss <
menvi-discuss at menvi.org> wrote:

> Hi, Ruby.  Muse Score is free to download and use.  I just did a quick look
> at their website and google search.  It appears that Muse Score does not
> directly import PDF files.  You can import Music XML files to Muse Score,
> or
> Midi files, but you can't upload a PDF to Muse Score directly.  To my
> understanding, you would have to first convert the PDF to XML and then load
> that XML file into Muse Score.
>
> I'm not sure which 3rd party applications do this.  If you have the
> Goodfeel
> Suite, I wonder if Sharp Eye would do that for you, but then, you could
> then
> use Goodfeel to access that music rather than Muse Score.
>
> Chris
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>
> Hey All, I have a small doubt is MuseScore free version or paid version? I
> uploaded some pdf music sheets for MuseScore to convert but it showed no
> action. please can anyone help me How to go about it? I would be much
> obliged for any solution.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Ruby.
>
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