Sound changes when uploading

• Sep 5, 2016 - 06:47

When I upload scores to Musescore, sometimes the sound of the score when played will be different. Ex. https://musescore.com/mar/re-re-upload-of-sunken-cathedral-arvidson-sou…
In this score, the two Voice instruments were much quieter compared to the other instruments when I ran it through the program on my laptop. But when I uploaded it, everything was thrown out of whack.

I'm having the a similar issue with another score I'm trying to work with (https://musescore.com/mar/astronauts-lullaby). It uses a Goblin Synthesizer which comes in around 0:46, and sounds very echo-ey and almost choirlike when I play it through the Musescore app. But when I uploaded it and played it from the site, the synthesizer sounded tinny, robotic, and totally tuneless. Are there any fixes to this issue?

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Comments

It is because MuseScore.com doesn't use the same soundfont you use into your computer.

Unfortunately, I don't know if there is a way to change this behaviour.

Greetings & Blessings from Chile!!!!!!!

Juan

https://musescore.org/en/node/90791

As of December 2015 musescore.com only uses the default soundfont delivered with MuseScore 2.x, FluidR3Mono. The sound using any custom soundfont will not be reproduced from the web site.

One option is to export your score to an audio file from the MuseScore application, which can create a .wav file (relatively large), .flac (compressed file but no compression loss, not a very commonly used format) ,.mp3 (good compression, loses information in the compression step, very common format), , or .ogg (Ogg Vorbis, less common than .mp3, usually some info lost on compression). Depending on your needs, .mp3 may be the simplest choice. An .mp3 file won't have the same audio quality as .wav or .flac but will consume less space on disk and will consume less bandwidth on download.

Once you have the audio file you can upload it to a hosting service and link to that file from your score located on musescore.com.

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