Sharing Sheet Music

• Sep 11, 2016 - 22:14

How do I share my sheet music I'm making with my friends? If I can, can my friends and I work on sheet music together? (BTW I want to share before uploading to Musescore)

Comments

Marc Sabatella

• Sep 11, 2016 - 23:05

Assuming they have email, that would seem the obvious choice - just attach the score you are working on to a message, send it, let them work on it, and send it back.

You could try also working from a shared folder on Dropbox or Google Drive, but there wouldn't be anything like the real-time collaboration features of Google Docs, So there is a really excellent chance you'd just end up stepping on each others' feet and making things worse unless you are all extremely expert in managing real time access to computer files - which most people definitely aren't :-)

Gozat

• Jan 5, 2023 - 20:03

Thank you for your answer.

I'm wondering : 5+ years later, is there a project of version control and/or collaborative tools to compose music somewhere ?

Jojo-Schmitz

• Jan 5, 2023 - 20:10

No.

ThePython10110

• Jan 6, 2023 - 16:58

There doesn't seem to be a way to collaborate in this way in MuseScore.
Flat.IO lets multiple people edit the same score at the same time, but if you're used to MuseScore, you will have to get used to a few things.

evanloday

• Jan 6, 2023 - 21:05

It would be amazing for this feature to be added. To be honest, I hadn't even considered it but I hope the developers will. If the real-time collaboration aspect of Flat.IO were combined with the power and familiarity of MuseScore, I think it would certainly be even more appealing to composers who like to collaborate (me).

As I am not much of a programmer, I cannot fathom what this might entail, so perhaps it is not priority #1, but it would definitely be nice.
This is a long shot (again, not a programmer), but maybe it'd be worth investigating how VSCode handles this; it uses extensions such as Live Share.

Thanks for reading!