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MuseScore 3.0 Beta Release

• 6 years ago

We are pleased to announce the release of MuseScore 3.0 Beta.

We have been working on MuseScore 3 ever since the release of MuseScore 2 back in 2015, and with this Beta version, we are one big step closer to a final release. Meanwhile, we have fixed all the critical issues reported against the previous Alpha versions. We want to make sure MuseScore 3 is as bug-free as possible, so please help us test this Beta release.

Download MuseScore 3.0

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Preparing MuseScore 3.0 Beta release

• 6 years ago

Next public version of MuseScore 3.0 will be MuseScore 3.0 Beta. It comes with a lot of fixes made after Alpha 2 release.

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Translating MuseScore

We are going to push new strings from MuseScore 3.0 to Transifex. It means there will be a lot of new strings to translate. We need your help to finish translations.

You can find all the instructions on this page. While you are translating, you can test your changes directly in a MuseScore

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MuseScore 3.0 Alpha 2 Release

• 6 years ago

We are pleased to announce the MuseScore 3.0 Alpha 2 release. This release shows the current state of MuseScore editor development. We fixed a lot of issues found after the first alpha release as well as others that existed before.

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Packages are available here

Recent improvements

  • The autoplacement engine was reworked. It now requires less space and works significantly faster.
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  • Loading and displaying scores created in MuseScore 2 versions was improved. Custom

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Revising categories of the issues in the issue tracker

• 6 years ago

Hello everyone.

We are pleased to announce upcoming changes going to happen with the Issue Tracker.

Abstract

Current categories describing the issues lead to misunderstanding in terms of priority and importance. Lack of predefined categories led to creating separate hit lists for particular versions summing up the most important issues to fix.
Taking the best practices from existing bug trackers, I prepared an update for the categories we have in the issue tracker. The most important goal here is

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MuseScore 3.0 alpha Release

• 6 years ago

We are pleased to announce the current state of MuseScore 3.0 via specially prepared builds with "alpha" label.

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Packages are available here

Elements autoplacement

The most significant improvement of 3.0 version is collision-detection engine which allows autoplacement for all elements in the score.
Starting from now, you don't need to adjust elements position manually, everything is done using smart algorithms.
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TimeWise Insert/Delete

MuseScore 3.0 alpha introduces a new concept of writing timeless

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MuseScore Development Blog

Welcome to MuseScore development news and digest blog

[2020-01-25]

FYI, processing scores on server was broken with 3.4 update. We had to create separate branch with the hotfix from pr #5639 (thanks to Howard!). Now, we are preparing hotfix update 3.4.1 and going to roll out it later today to prevent further bug reports asap

[2019-12-03]

We decided to revert the changes to the MuseScore_General soundfont due to the regressions.

Current soundfont version is 0.1.6.

MuseScore 64bit on Windows

• 6 years ago
[2018-08-24 00:00 GMT+2]

Fixed.

[2018-08-23 16:00 GMT+2]

We do have a known issue related to last 64-bit builds: https://musescore.org/en/node/275547.
Applying solution is in progress. We will update this topic once it is fixed.

[2018-08-23 13:30 GMT+2]
  • Migration completed successfully.
  • AppVeyor builds MuseScore 3.0 64-bit version.
  • Instructions have been updated respectively.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

  • Everyone who already works with Visual Studio has to update dependencies folder content:
    • Downloading actual dependencies.zip archive
    • Delete dependencies folder in your MuseScore workspace
    • Unpack the archive
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Compilation of MuseScore with Visual Studio Community (MSVC) Release

• 6 years ago

We are pleased to announce a big step forward in compilation under Visual Studio and MSVC respectively. Compilation under Visual Studio Community is now available and fully supported.
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Why do we need it?

MuseScore 3.0 is based on the latest Qt version. Unfortunately, QtWebKit which is used for MuseScore Connect is not presented in QT since version 5.4. So we migrated from QtWebKit (QWebView in particular) to QtWebEngine. Unfortunately, QtWebEngine team doesn’t maintain libs for MinGW due to the

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MuseScore 2.3.2 Release

• 6 years ago

We are pleased to announce the release of MuseScore 2.3.2 which resolves several significant pending bugs, as well as a few regressions.

Among the fixes in this release is the “Upload Score Audio” issue. Now, If you use custom soundfonts or the MDL extension and share your score to Musescore.com using Save Online with the upload score audio feature, the score upload process should just work and playback should be as intended.

Another improvement is increased volume of Zerberus

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MuseScore 2.3.2 and "Upload Score Audio" fix

• 6 years ago