Using MuseScore as a Jukebox
Hi, gang!!!
Is it possible to use MuseScore as a Jukebox machine, to play more than one musical pieces (*.mscz or *.mid files format), one at a time, in some specific order? ???
How? ???
Greetings!!!
Juan
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Hmm. Not sure that I would say this is exactly like a jukebox, but you can join multiple scores into one long score using the Album feature. Note that I just discovered a critical issue when I tried this: #65996: Creating joined score with less instruments/staves in subsequent scores vs. the first yields corrupt score
In reply to Hmm. Not sure that I would by Isaac Weiss
Thank you so much for your quickly answer!!!
I'll try this weekend. I think I won't have problems because it is a 10 songs "cantata", but all the songs have only the piano part (the voices are silent because there will be humans singing), so...
Of course, it should be so good to fix the problem you discovered.
Thanks a lot for your help!!!
Greetings!!1
Juan
In reply to Hmm. Not sure that I would by Isaac Weiss
The album feature was never designed to handle scores of different instruments; that was added as an afterthought. It's definitely not meant to work with playback, as the instruments won't be correct in any case.
Which is to say, the answer to the original question is really, no, MuseScore has no such feature. Noir does it really make sense to add one; playback for its own sake is definitely not the point of MuseScore. On the other hand, it could be an interesting feature for the mobile apps.
In reply to The album feature was never by Marc Sabatella
I couldn't use the ALBUM tool because that tool doesn't see any MuseScore file into the directory I used!!!
The files are there. I can load all of them, one by one, with MuseScore, but... The Album tool doesn't show any MuseScore file into that directory!!!
What's wrong here? ???
Greetings!!!
Juan
In reply to I couldn't use the ALBUM tool by jotape1960
Were you following the instructions from the Handbook: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/albu? My guess is you were using the Load button, which is for loading.album files, not for loading the individual scores.
In reply to Were you following the by Marc Sabatella
I use the [Add Score] button.
Then the "File Type" box (small window) shows the typical "*.mscz, *.mscx" kind of files (not the Album kind of files).
Those files are in the directory (because I can see them with the Windows Explorer), but the files window, which is opened apart of the Album window itself, is absolutely empty!!! No files at all!!!
And I sure you and I repeat that I saved those files, from MuseScore, into the directory, and I can see them with Windows Explorer, and other programs, too, and I can recover them with the normal MuseScore mode.
So... I don't know what's wrong here.
In reply to I use the [Add Score] by jotape1960
There was a bug fixed after the initial 2.0 release where after trying to load an album, the file dialogs would get confused and keep trying to show albums show until you quit and restarted MuseScore. Are you using 2.0.1? I thought the bug was fixed for that release, but maybe not. Anyhow, try quitting and restarting. If that doesn't help, can you post a screenshot?
In reply to There was a bug fixed after by Marc Sabatella
Do you mean #56876: Load Album dialog sometimes shows scores, not albums - and vice versa ?
In reply to Do you mean #56876: Load by Jojo-Schmitz
Yes. It was fixed before the release of 2.0.1, but I can't swear the fix made it in. Not all fixes made before the release did; the most important were "cherry-picked" for inclusion. It's definitely in for 2.0.2 which should happen relatively soon.
In reply to There was a bug fixed after by Marc Sabatella
I restarted not only MuseScore but the whole PC system, three times (even I performed a "fixdisk", just in case).
I uploaded the screen from the Windows Explorer and from the Album Manager (MuseScore). Teh directory is the same where the files are.
Maybe the bug is still inside the code. I don't know.
Greetings!!!
Juan
In reply to I restarted not only by jotape1960
Very strange, I can't think of any reaosn for this. I assuem you pressed the "New" button already, otherwise "Add score" would not be available. Is this 2.0, 2.0.1, or a nightly build?
That looks like a very old, maybe not supported, version of Windows? Or maybe not; I forget how the different versions look.
In reply to The album feature was never by Marc Sabatella
I realise it is three years later, but here it goes. I was searching for the jukebox feature as well. The reason is that I bought the casio Lk280 lightning keyboard (synthesizer), where the keys turn red to help you playing. I want to extend this with rgb led strip technology so the keys will light up in any color you want. Next I want to control the keyboard with a raspberry pi with a touch screen. Further I want to program my own lighting/ guiding sequences according to music content, notes, chords, etc. So, I need a good representation to do this. I have found that the musescore representation contains all I need, including note colors. And so, I am going to run musescore on the radpberry pi, and am going to write a musescore lk280 plugin for it or similar, so that I can stream music to the Casio from the musescore representation, converting it to midi, and lighting commands, (midi is sent to the Casio synthesizer, lightning commands to the rgb ledstrip) and handle the keystrokes that are coming back from the Casio echoeing lightning commands back to it. So the key that is pressed will light up in a certain color. Maybe modulate the color with velocity or similar.
Now, to play songs, I am also going to need a play list, and there is your jukebox functionality. It needs to play files in sequence and stream midi and lightning commands to the Casio. Apparently, there is no jukebox plugin yet, so I am going to need to put something together here as well. Probably not such a big deal.