Better support for large files
I heard in a discussion group on the finale forums that a finale user opened up a large (400 mb) score in muse score. I think they imported it via music xml.
Anyway, they said it ground the software to a crawl and brought up performance issues. To stay competitive with professional engraving software, I believe the performance of the code should be analyzed so musescore can handle large documents on the scale of opera scores, musicals, and movies.
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Just like in court, hearsay really isn't worth much. If some person is having a problem with a large score in MuseScore, they should report it here so that we can try to help them.
Large files are not particularly a problem for MuS. I don't have any as large as you have reported (I've got several in the 40-80 MB range), but I have heard of others who do and they do not have problems with them. I have heard reports of large files that had problems, but in all the cases I actually know about, it turned out that there was some specific, other problem causing the delays. Once they fixed those problems, the large files played normally, just as well as small files do.
Normally, I would expect an opera, musical, or movie score to be several separate largish files rather than a single humongous one. Personally I think orchestral scores are more likely to be single, very large files than your examples.
In reply to Just like in court, hearsay… by TheHutch
Understood! Just want to make sure it is known. I know as for me I will be setting up a dev environment for musescore as soon as the weekend is done so I can run some benchmarks and look for issues. I figure the best way I can punish MakeMusic for what they did is give potential Dorico users a reason to choose MuseScore.
In reply to Understood! Just want to… by chrisroode
And there are compressed and un-compressed xml files. Plus different programs produce different quality files.
I notice that the minimum specs to run Finale are half of what it takes to run MU4.
I agree that and entire opera score in one file is very dangerous.
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