MuseScore Google blurb
This isn't documentation per se, but this seemed a good place to post it.
When you Google musescore, you see:
> Create, playback and print beautiful sheet music with free and easy to use
> music notation software MuseScore. For Windows, Mac and Linux.
That should be play back (two words). playback (one word) is a noun. (E.g.: "Now we'll hear the playback.")
This is the first official reference to MuseScore that most people see, so I thought it was worth mentioning.
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You are correct. Since I had nothing better to do I Googled Finale and Sibelius. They seem to avoid playback as a verb. Finale uses "audition" and Sibelius uses "play" or "perform", . This doesn't mean Finale or Sibelius is the grammatical reference for the universe but it provides a hint of evidence that "playback" is not evolving into a verb like the noun "party" did.
In reply to Playback is a noun by Zoots
And this here seems to be the source:
http://musescore.org/en/handbook/musescore-product-description
Very good point. I helped wordsmith thse descriptions, but got that wrong. The character limits are tough, which has to do with why I thought it OK to cheat that word. i've change it to "play back" in the longer descriptions; the 45 character one remains "play" because we're out of characters. I don't like "play" because it implies *you* are doing the playing (eg, at the piano) rather than the computer, but there is no better word that is nearly as short.
In reply to Very good point. I helped by Marc Sabatella
It is also inside a meta tag on the main page
<meta name="description" content="Create, playback and print beautiful sheet music with free and easy to use music notation software MuseScore. For Windows, Mac and Linux.">Thanks NotationGuy for bringing this to our attention. It's fixed now.
For those who wish to translate this string, here is the direct link.
In reply to Googl blurb fixed by Thomas
done the German translation ;-)
Here's another meta tag, can we add capella to it? It is at least in Germany a quite popular score writer
<meta name="keywords" content="music, notation, software, free, open source, composition, composing, arranging, making, writing, sheet music, lead sheet, leadsheet, score, full score, scorewriter, sibelius, finale, midi, musicxml, print, play">In reply to done the German translation by Jojo-Schmitz
最近我也在研究musescore，只是我才入门。我不会用Qt和Cmake软件，也不太懂软件编译流程，我看了论坛上编译musescore软件的环境搭建 ，环境我都建好了。但是接下来的步骤，我不会了，能帮帮我吗？万分感谢啊！