losing chord names
When I save a file in MusicXML file and later reopen it, all chord names are gone. What am I doing wrong? Thanks.
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When I save a file in MusicXML file and later reopen it, all chord names are gone. What am I doing wrong? Thanks.
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Could you post an example MSCZ file? My guess is, you didn't enter the chords correctly in the first place, and therefore they aren't being exported to the MusicXML file. MuseScore has a specific set of chords it can recognize, depending on which chord name style file you have loaded. See the chordname entry in the handbook:
http://musescore.org/en/handbook/chord-name
Normally, when you enter a recognized chord, you can see its display change - the letter "b" changing to a flat sign, the "#" to a sharp sign, etc. That's how you'd know it worked.
In reply to Could you post an example MSCZ by Marc Sabatella
And more easily to detect: lower case chord names get upshifted. So get into the habit of entering them in lower case, to see right away whether they have been properly recognozed by MuseScore.
In reply to And more easily to detect: by Jojo-Schmitz
Good idea; I hadn't thought about that! I know for 2.0, they are experimenting with marking unrecognized chords like word processors often do with missspelled words - by underlining them with a red wavy line.
In reply to Could you post an example MSCZ by Marc Sabatella
Here are the sample .mscz and .xml files.
I entered the chord names in lower case, as suggested elsewhere in this thread, and they changed to upper case. So I really do think I've entered the chord names correctly.
In reply to sample files by efarr
Interesting. Even if I open your mscz and save as xml myself, the chords are gone.
Not so for my own scores though!?!
In reply to sample files by efarr
Looking at the XML file, I don't see the chords there, so the problem appears to be with the export. But it works for me in my own scores, too. So I wonder what's different? Anything at all unusual about how you created this score?
In reply to Looking at the XML file, I by Marc Sabatella
I can't think of anything unusual about the way I created the file. I just created another small file, with the same result
In reply to I can't think of anything by efarr
I think it's due to the grand staff. More investigation tomorrow.
In reply to I think it's due to the grand by [DELETED] 5
I created an issue #12394: [MusicXML] [1.1] Chordnames are not exported for grand staff
In reply to I created an issue #12394: by [DELETED] 5
Apparently I never ran into this because I never use an actual grand staff - that is, two staves for one instrument. Instead, I always create two separate instruments, one for the treble clef and one for the bass clef. This allows the Hide Empty Staves option to work, also allows different sounds for each staff if I want. Anyhow, setting up your score this way ends up being a workaround. You have to manually add the brace to connect the two staves, but other than that, it should work just like a grand staff only better :-)
In reply to Apparently I never ran into by Marc Sabatella
Thanks very much. That works fine.