Sibelius 6 not opening Music XML from Musescore?
Hi,
I'm trying out MuseScore as an alternative notation program for our students here to use at home, as many of them cannot afford to purchase Sibelius which we use in school. I thought I would test out the compatibility between the two, but when opening an exported music XML file from MuseScore in Sibelius 6, I get the following error:
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Sibelius 6
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Fatal error: "An exception occurred! Type:MalformedURLException, Message:The URL used an unsupported protocol" at line 0 column 0. Sibelius 6 cannot load this file.
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OK
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Is this more of a problem with Sibelius than with MuseScore? Any advice would be great. Congratulations on an excellent piece of software!
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I often go between Sib5 and MuseScore without problem. The error looks very weird. Have you tried more than once? Can you attach the file?
In reply to I often go between Sib5 and by [DELETED] 5
Sure thing, I've tried a few times with different files:
In reply to Sure thing, I've tried a few by lewk
Very weird. This file imports very well on both Sibelius 5 and 7 on Windows using File -> Open
You are using Sib6 on windows or mac? Did you try with a compress MusicXML file?
In reply to Very weird. This file imports by [DELETED] 5
Sib 6 on Windows 7, although it's with a network licenced copy, but I can't see how that should matter.
Bizarrely it works fine with a compressed xml file, just not with a standard one! How odd....
In reply to Sib 6 on Windows 7, although by lewk
FWIW, it also works just fine using the Sibelius 6 demo on Vista.
Looking at the XML file itself, the only URL I see is the in the DOCTYPE declaration at top, and it looks normal to me. Looks the same as the URL used when exporting MusicXML from Finale.
So it really does seem to me the file is fine, and the issue is with your particular Sibelius installation. Are you able to import other MusixXML files?
In reply to FWIW, it also works just fine by Marc Sabatella
I've not tried any from another source, I'll give that a go tomorrow.
In reply to FWIW, it also works just fine by Marc Sabatella
Ah, doesn't work with an xml file from another site. I'll direct my enquiry over to the sibelius site!