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GSoC 2017 - Startup Wizard - Weekly Report 1 - Jun 4th

6 years ago • 4 comments

github: https://github.com/aryamanvinchhi/MuseScore

For implementing my project idea, the first step that I want to complete is identifying the user’s keyboard layout. To do this, I will use the user’s locale to establish the user’s language and then present the user with a list of the most commonly used layouts in that language. The user can then choose his layout from this list. For instance, if the user’s locale is en-US then the list would contain the following options: QWERTY, AZERTY,

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GSoC 2017 - Timeline Navigation - Weekly Report #1

6 years ago • 3 comments

Hey everyone!

This is my first weekly report for my GSoC project. This will include all the work I did preceding the "official" coding time. It includes my key accomplishments up to this point, the tasks that have given me trouble, and my plan for the next week.

Key accomplishments

-Created the base of the timeline

This includes creating the tool that appears at the bottom of the screen, linking the tool to the view menu, and allowing it to

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My GSOC Project Description

6 years ago • 0 comments

The project idea that I would like to implement is a start-up wizard for MuseScore. This idea stems from the idea of implementing keyboard layouts and shortcut management. Every MuseScore user has a different profile. At the beginning of the program, we could ask users different questions to help configure MuseScore better for their use. Some of these questions include a user’s language, keyboard layout or their level. We could then use this information to toggle settings and set up

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OpenScore: Happy Birthday Gabriel Fauré!

6 years ago • 14 comments

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Gabriel Fauré (12 May 1845 – 4 November 1924)

We went public with OpenScore back in February at FOSDEM 2017, when we told the world about our plan to liberate public domain sheet music. Since then, we’ve been really busy spreading the word, meeting up with partners and other interested parties, creating demos and showcase projects, and generally getting everything ready for the upcoming launch of the Kickstarter campaign (not long to wait now!).

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GSoC 2017: Accessibility

6 years ago • 2 comments

Hello everyone! I am Divya Raghunathan. I have been selected to work on improving the accessibility in MuseScore for visually impaired musicians as part of Google Summer of Code 2017.

The goal of the project is to improve keyboard accessibility so that visually impaired users can use MuseScore for score creation as well as score reading. Particularly, the aim is to make score editing possible through the use of keyboard only, eliminating the need for the mouse. This will allow

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GSoC 2017 - Timeline Navigation - Project Description

6 years ago • 23 comments

Hello! My name is Joshua Bonn and I am starting work on my project as a part of Google Summer of Code 2017. My project is called Timeline Navigator.

Bio

First, let me tell you a bit about myself.
I am going into my senior year at the University of Idaho studying in Computer Science. My current focus at school is Artificial Intelligence and Evolutionary Computation.
At the end of my sophomore year, I was also a Music Theory major

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OpenScore: Join the transcription effort!

7 years ago • 62 comments

Exactly one month ago we introduced OpenScore to the MuseScore community, and one week ago we announced it to the world at FOSDEM, Europe’s largest open source software conference. OpenScore is a new initiative to digitise public domain music, including the works of the great classical composers like Mozart, Beethoven and Bach.

Introducing OpenScore at FOSDEM 2017

YouTube video: OpenScore - Join the transcription effort

Getting involved

OpenScore is only possible with your help. We would be extremely grateful if as many people as possible could

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Introducing OpenScore

7 years ago • 86 comments

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It’s an exciting time for MuseScore at the moment, with massive changes underway both in the code and on the website, helping to ensure that musicians have the tools they need to create and share amazing content! However, there is one more thing that every budding composer needs: inspiration!

It is my great privilege to announce OpenScore, the successor project to Open Goldberg and Open Well Tempered Clavier. The goal with those projects was to liberate specific

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MuseScore in 2016: The year in review

7 years ago • 4 comments

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2016 was a wonderfully busy year for MuseScore. As we head into 2017 looking forward to new accomplishments and milestones, let’s take a moment to look back over the year gone by.

2.0.3 update

We spent the first part of the year preparing MuseScore version 2.0.3, the last update to MuseScore 2.0, which we released at the beginning of April 2016 with more than 200 changes. Read all about it at MuseScore 2.0.3 is released!

(There was

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