Stray notes ahead of Clef/key signature

• May 19, 2013 - 18:11

Hello,

I imported a MusicXML file from Sibelius, and got some odd results.

Deleting the note just turns it into a rest. If I select the measure, the offending note is left out of the selection.

This happened several times in the score, and always at the top left of the page. This is just the first example of it.

Karl

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Shoichi

• May 19, 2013 - 18:15

attach the score (*. mscz), it could be a corrupt measure.

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• May 20, 2013 - 05:24

Here's the created score. I noted that when I select a measure, the highlighted portion is *INCLUDING* the first note of the next measure. Look at measure 12-13. This problem is pretty consistent throughout the score.

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chen lung

• May 19, 2013 - 20:23

Hi klogue

What operating system and version of MuseScore are you using?

Are you able to attach the MusicXML and possibly the Sibelius one too?

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• May 20, 2013 - 08:45

As chenlung said, the MusicXML file would be very useful. It looks like a problem in the MusicXML import process (or a bad MusicXML file created by Sib). Could you attach it?

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• May 20, 2013 - 13:27

Here it is.

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Shoichi

• May 20, 2013 - 14:24

Meanwhile, take a look if the score is improved.

I have another experiment ...
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My solution is trivial, check if I did damage (I hope not).

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• May 20, 2013 - 17:30

Thanks for the update on the file!

I'm finding lots more problems... like bars with 5 beats in them (in 4/4 time). Not sure whether Sibelius is just creating really messed up MusicXML, or MuseScore has some serious MusicXML rendering issues...

For instance, bar 16 has five beats in the piano part. Measures 18 and 19 seem to have 4 1/2 beats in them (piano part). Measure 23 has 5 1/2 beats! Measure 27 ended up with 5 beats in all parts.

There are also quite a few instances where stuff that was in the Treble clef in Sibelius, ended up in the bass clef. For instance Measure 27.

Thanks for looking into this for me...

Karl

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Shoichi

• May 20, 2013 - 17:48

and, just for a comparison between 1.3 and 3c35a97, look what a mess :-(

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• May 20, 2013 - 19:10

It's not that bad in the current nightly. I opened it with it, save as MusicXML and open again in MuseScore 1.3. After some cleaning, see the result attached.

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Shoichi

• May 20, 2013 - 20:56

In Italy we say: "Tanto di cappello" (Hats off).

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• May 21, 2013 - 05:01

Thanks for that. Yes, it is much improved!

Now for the bad news. I have like 19 more of these to do.

Should I download and compile the nightly builds for myself so I have a more up-to-date (and understandably buggy) version to work with?

Karl

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• May 21, 2013 - 07:46

It shouldn't happen with all your MusicXML files. This one was probably special in some way. So you can try to use the stable version first and if needed use a nightly for the import/export. You can find precompiled nightlies on the [[nodetitle:Download]] page.

Shoichi

• May 21, 2013 - 05:10

at top of the list: "Nightly versions"
http://musescore.org/en/download
Good work ;-)