PDF Import
Hi all,
My use case for MuseScore is that I'm an amateur guitarist (who can read music). What I like in the sheet music I play from is to have the fretboard diagrams included. Up until now I have entered sheet music in its entirety, treble clef notation, lyrics and fretboard diagrams (including a bunch of custom, like Dm7/C) myself.
I thought that the PDF import could be a great timesaver. All I would need to do is transpose, once imported, and add the fretboard diagrams. I upgraded to a pro subscription and imported...the import was a disaster...the equivalent effort to fix it would be equivalent to correcting a book chapter translated by Google rather than translating it oneself.
I do understand that this is an experimental feature. And being a software dev, I totally understand that 'difficult' doesn't begin to describe what must be involved. I'm wondering whether there is any plan to make the PDF import usable in version 4?
Comments
Try using Audiveris directly on your computer rather than via https:://musescore,com/import
In reply to Try using Audiveris directly… by Jojo-Schmitz
I'll do that, thank you!
BTW: A Pro subscription doesn't seem needed for any of this
In reply to BTW: A Pro subscription… by Jojo-Schmitz
Interesting. When I clicked to import, up came a page for pro...if there was a No Thanks then I didn't notice. It was 90% off, so I'll spend a year deciding whether I should keep it or cancel at the end.
I’ve tried that PDF import, and it’s really not ready for prime time. It worked fine for something relatively simple like barbershop, but failed with a multistaff choral and piano score, where voices came and went. It’s basically a black box, where you have no opportunity to edit before exporting as the MuseScore document. It’s no different from the many other Music-to-whatever apps that are out there.
A full featured music OCR program (I use SmartScore Pro, but there are others) give you the ability to quickly find and correct things like duration errors, missing accidentals, and tuplets that the recognition engine may have missed, as well as letting you correctly assign staves to their correct voices. If you plan on working with PDF or scanning scores, a REAL music scanning program is a must, cost be damned!