Creating Album in Musescore 3
Apologies if this post is not a question for this particular forum. I have a large amount of scores that I had created in Musescore 2 and was hoping to combine in the Album so that I could prints as one. However, since upgrading to Musescore 3 I am not able to do this. Are there any plans to put this on a patch? I am left with a mammoth task of converting all the individual scores into PDF format and then using a PDF combining software to make as one document..any advice or news would be much appreciated. I did try converting to a PDF in Musescore 3 than trying to import as a PDF in Musescore 2 (which I have still have) but it's not working-didn't really expect it to!
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The Album feature has not yet been reimplemented in MuseScore 3, see #289326: Re-implement the Album feature for Musecore 3/4
In reply to The Album feature has not… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks for you reply Jojo- was really hoping to get news that it was on an update...oh so much work ahead of me now. Are you part of the support team? Is there a way to escalate requests for the function?
Regards
In reply to Thanks for you reply Jojo-… by wonderto
I'm a contributor.
In reply to Thanks for you reply Jojo-… by wonderto
@wonderto
I used to be upset about the Album feature being missing, but now I just generate the PDF for each score and then join the PDF files together using PDFsam Basic (free version):
https://pdfsam.org/
And if you want to join audio files together, Audacity will do the job:
https://www.audacityteam.org/
Some might say that this method is more reliable than the old Album feature was... ;-)
In reply to @wonderto I used to be upset… by DanielR
For a pretty large album ( 400+ scores or one page each) I'm using PFDSaM myself too (results in a 10MB PDF). Also because these are MuseScore 1 scores, and the combined album score in MuseScore 2 was basically impossible to handle, way too slow, more than 6800 measures in total (times 2 staves, just 600KB in size and the PDF export just 3MB though)
In reply to @wonderto I used to be upset… by DanielR
I'd suggest that majority of things people ever used albums for are better accomplished by joining PDF files. Really, the only case where albums do something that PDF joining doesn't do better is combining multiple songs on a single page. Even that works great (or using PNG) if you want each song to fit fully, but getting a single song to split (start at the bottom of one page then continue at the top of the next) doesn't work out so well. I'd further suggest, though, that it would be better if people didn't force other people to read music written that way, though.
That said, an improved version of the old albums feature - one that didn't have som many limitations and bugs - would still be nice to have someday.
In reply to I'd suggest that majority of… by Marc Sabatella
"Session" books of folk tunes collect between one to three "songs" by page, with some of them being one and a half, sometimes two pages long.
Creating manually is extremely tedious.
In reply to I'd suggest that majority of… by Marc Sabatella
I use MuseScore 2 at present to produce individual score files for single Scottish Country Dance tunes, and the album feature to combine them in sets (usually of four tunes, but can range from two to eight for a specific dance). This produces usable sheet music normally with two tunes on each page at a good size for playing from. Tunes frequently get recombined into different sets. The absence of the album feature in version 3 is an inconvenience which has forced me to keep on using version 2.
In reply to @wonderto I used to be upset… by DanielR
@DanielR, does PDFsam allow me to create consistent page numbers across all of my scores? That would be the only issue I have with using a PDF combiner vs the album feature.
In reply to @DanielR, does PDFsam allow… by Daniel Fifield
No, you'd need to set up the page numbers in each score.
In reply to @DanielR, does PDFsam allow… by Daniel Fifield
I'm not sure about PDFsam specifically, but there are lot of PDF tools out there, and many if not most of them have the ability to add page numbers.
In reply to I'm not sure about PDFsam… by Marc Sabatella
Add may be, but not change existing ones
In reply to Add may be, but not change… by Jojo-Schmitz
True. So the way to do this is not include page numbers on the score at all but let the PDF tool add them. I've done this many times using quite a few different tools on both Window and Linux, so I can't remember which tools specifically worked for this on which platform, but anyhow, it's not hard to come by.
In reply to True. So the way to do this… by Marc Sabatella
You can set the first page number for a score in Format>Page Settings.
In reply to @DanielR, does PDFsam allow… by Daniel Fifield
Thanks so much for the help everyone!
To port scores from v3 back to v2, export them as musicxml to minimize the amount of data/formatting lost.