MuseScore 1.0 is released
We are proud to present MuseScore 1.0, our best and most stable release to date. MuseScore 1.0 is free software available for Windows, Mac and Linux and translated in 35 languages. It is the ideal solution for creating beautiful sheet music.
Download MuseScore 1.0
Read the release notes to find out what is new.
Looking back
Last year has proven to be a year of change for MuseScore. Not only did MuseScore pass 1 million downloads since its conception, it also tripled its number of monthly downloads in the fourth quarter of 2010. We attribute this growth to the rising use of MuseScore in music education around the world.
What’s next?
While MuseScore 1.0 is rolling out, let’s also look at what is in store for future versions of MuseScore. The developer team is already busily preparing the next big MuseScore release. Important developments include initial work on tablature notation for fretted instruments such as guitar and lute, and linked parts for ensemble music which automatically synchronizes notes between the full score and the extracted parts while editing. If you are eager to see the latest developments first hand, check out the nightly builds.
Parallel to the development of MuseScore, we also want to mention a new option to bring your scores to the web and mobile devices (see the current favorites for a selection of scores already on the web). This is an on-going commercial project hosted at MuseScore.com. Funds raised by MuseScore.com will in return support future development of the free and open-source notation editor we have grown to love: MuseScore.
Follow MuseScore on Twitter or Facebook to stay on top of the future developments. If you want to support MuseScore, feel free to donate.
Thank you all!
What started 8 years ago as a hobby project of Werner Schweer, has now grown to a community of more than 150 contributors. It is thanks to the passion, time and dedication of all the developers, translators, documentation writers, designers and people helping out in the forum, that MuseScore 1.0 is now available for the world.
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I am so proud. Thank you so much.
I am really, really impressed! So many bug fixes! Well done to all the programmers, and good luck with the future! Thank you so much for the great piece of software. I use it all the time.
musescore 1.0 is now available via the openSUSE BuildService for openSUSE 11.2 and 11.3.
Please download from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/multimedia:/musescore/
And a hearty "Congratulations!" to the musescore development team. This is a great accomplishment. Musescore is better than ever.
Starting using MuseScore just this week on Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit (v0.9.6.3 from repos is a little behind) and on Windows XP (v1.0) - this is really great software and I can't wait to use it more! I've been looking for good, free music notation software for a while and this is the best I've found so far. Well done!
But you can download v1.0 sources. I just couldn't wait for my debs and compilation worked fine for me in Ubuntu 10.04.
Many congratulations to the developers.
Hi there,
if you check out the "mscore-stable" repository, I keep it updated with the latest releases of MuseScore in the cases where I can't get an updated version into an old release of Ubuntu.
https://launchpad.net/~mscore-ubuntu/+archive/mscore-stable
Have fun!
Thanks for that. I was looking all over for the PPA. I appreciate you keeping it updated.
The packages for Arch Linux are available.
http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/musescore/
http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/musescore/
Packaged by Stefan
Hey! I congratulate not only the developers, but all of us, the users.
Keep up the good work!
Sounds great :)
So I know that the nightlys are kind of a different direction than 1.0. Will 1.0 still be updated with bug fixes and such, or should the focus be on bugs in the nightlys? In other words, if I find bugs in 1.0, should I report them?
I was going to ask this too.
Hi ceegers,
The MuseScore nightly is built on a refactored codebase which is available in the trunk and it enables tablature support and linked parts editing. The focus of MuseScore has not changed: easy to use software to create beautiful sheet music. For more info about that, check out this answer.
Now to answer the question: if you encounter a critical bug in 1.0 like a crash, you can report it in the issue tracker. Only real critical ones, easy to fix and with a high impact, will be fixed and will be available in a 1.x release, just like we did with 0.9.6.x. So this means that if you find a minor inconvenience in 1.0 or a missing features, don't bother reporting it in the issue tracker.
Instead, download the nightly build and check whether that bug, inconvenience or feature is missing in the nightly build. Then check out the tracker to see whether it has been reported/filed before. If not, go ahead and file an issue.
I hope this answers your question. If not, please let me know.
Thanks, that was what I wanted to know :)
You may find the packages for Ubuntu 10.10 and 10.04 in the official PPA here:
https://launchpad.net/~mscore-ubuntu/+archive/mscore-stable
Toby announced MuseScore 1.0 for Ubuntu on the developer mailing list:
Hi everyone,
Packages are now available for 1.0 in the mscore-stable repository[1],
for Ubuntu lucid (10.04) and maverick (10.10), and, shortly, for natty
(11.04). Packages will also be available in Debian unstable soon, and
thence they will progress into the official Ubuntu repositories for
the natty release.
I attach a patch that fixes the mscore linking process on Debian
wheezy (currently unstable) and Ubuntu natty, which have updated their
linkers to conform to GNU gold, and not do indirect dependent shared
object resolution.
[1] https://launchpad.net/~mscore-ubuntu/+archive/mscore-stable
All the best, and sorry for the delay,
--
Toby Smithe
Debian Maintainer
http://launchpad.net/~tsmithe
Hi there,
Appologies this doesn't actually relate to the subject.
I need help with a couple of things and want to create a post.
Where do I go on the website to create a post?
Cheers,
Stu
Look at the column to the right of the screen; you'll see a menu that Download, Features, Screenshots, Handbook, Forums, ...
The Forum link (http://musescore.org/en/forum) is the one you want. Generally speaking, you'd probably want to use the Support & bug reports forum
cheers
Thanks, ppl!
I think this software rivals Sibelius.
I haven't seen anything like it on the Linux platform. Kudos!
MuseScore Portable 1.0 has been released. It's MuseScore packaged as a portable app. Have fun!
Thanks a lot Bart! Great work. Just forwarded the message to Facebook, Twitter and others.
This is a great discovery for me. Looking forward to scoring for my church choir.