Can't open old Overture files
Type
Functional
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Status
active
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project
After playing with MuseScore 1.0 for a few weeks, I tracked down my old Overture (.ove) files from my Windows days. I don't recall what version of Overture I had, file dates range from 1998-2005. I've tried a few different files, and every time after selecting the file I click Open and absolutely nothing happens - no file opens, I get no error message, nada. Attached is one of the files I tried.
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| B Spread Flat Blues.ove | 7.51 KB |
Comments
With the latest nightly build (4338), I do get a message:
Cannot read file: /Users/mikeryan/ToMac/My Music/Songs/Originals/B Spread Flat Blues.ove error: No such file or directory
Of course, there is such a file, otherwise I couldn't have selected it:->. Anyway, I removed the space from the "My Music" directory and tried a file with no spaces in the name, same deal, so it's not the spaces...
With 4338 under Windows I get "Open failed: unknown file extension of broken file".
Seems to be a very old file. I opened it with Overture 4.1 and save it again. And then open the resulting file in MuseScore.
So I guess, MuseScore should display a warning if the file is too old.
(Windows, MuseScore 1.0)
@lasconic: Thanks. That's one that I had already manually entered, was trying to import for comparison's sake. The one you converted, interestingly, did well with the melody (including the grace notes), but got the chords wrong somehow. And strangely, they're not off by a consistent interval - Bb7 became F#7, Eb7 became D7, ...
It'd be great if MuseScore could import pre-historic Overture files, but I guess I shouldn't hold my breath. Unless I submit a patch myself, but my C++ is pretty rusty:-).
I created another bug report for the chordnames : #11014: Ove Import : Import of chordnames is wrong
Fixed in branch master, commit 2c709d7936
fix #10973: fixed measures width in the linear mode
Fixed in branch master, commit 7fa89d396f
_Merge pull request #10980 from RomanPudashkin/measures_width
[MU4] Fix #10973: Score becomes total empty in continuous view_
Still the case (and the above mentioned fix is entirely unrelated)
However: MuseScore's support is currently experimental and seems to support Overture / Score Writer 3 and 4 only. (straight from the handbook)
So this is rather a feature request AKA Suggestion