batch upload PDF, or batch convert PDF to MSCZ?
I know some files can be converted one at a time at https://musescore.com/import. I can't find any way to batch process? I can understand MuseScore wanting to make it not so easy that the server is overwhelmed, but I have ~100 files to process and importing them one-at-a-time would be ridiculous.
There is a plugin that batch converts from MSCZ to PDF, and other formats, but I'm pretty sure it can't convert PDF to MSCZ. (https://musescore.org/en/project/batch-convert)
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Indeed that plugin can't batch convert PDF to MSCZ.
And there are no plans to change that ;-)
Converting MSCZ to PDF, PNG etc... is a consistent task. It will always give you a usable result, an exact graphic export of your score. Converting PDF to MSCZ is very often the first step of a long process. For each MSCZ file, you will need to open it in MuseScore, verify each note and fix the score in many places. I don't really see the value of doing such a conversion for 100 files at a time.
That being said, MuseScore.Com uses Audiveris. It just makes it easier to use and remove all the great flexibility it has. You can download and install Audiveris and try a batch conversion.
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Thanks, I'll try using Audiveris downloaded.
Wait --- How are users such as ClassicMan able to take sheet music from IMSLP and import it into MuseScore? Does IMSLP have files in MusicXML format? Perhaps for some(?), but not for most of what ClassicMan has posted. If IMSLP does have MusicXML format for some music, how did those get created? For the Billy Mayerl sheets I converted, manually correcting would take an hour per page - for a MuseScore whiz. Anyone know if @ClassicMan uses OMR (Optical Music Recognition)? Do you know if he uses Audiveris?
Batch-convert does make sense - since musescore.com/import was unsuccessful with most of the files I uploaded (even though they looked quite clear and simple to me - I didn't try ones in bad condition), it would have helped if I could have just uploaded 50 or 100 at once.
Audiveris seems to require that my computer has several additional [software elements]. Perhaps it would be worth finding each and installing them, but it looks rather complicated, and like I may not be able to make it work. Perhaps I'll stick to musescore.com/import.
Thanks
In reply to Thanks, I'll try using… by jonathon.neville
In reply to I'm not sure about… by mike320
Hi Mike, I'd love to see a video of that process*. Have you ever made such a video? Does doing so interest you?
In reply to Hi Mike, I'd love to see a… by jonathon.neville
Entering each note one at a time is how most people (including @mike320, from what he has written elsewhere) enter most music into MuseScore. It is by far the most accurate and efficient way to do it. You can use a MIDI keyboard if playing the notes one at a time is easier for you than typing, but having MuseScore - or any other program - attempt to sort out real music played in real time is not going to go well at all. Nor is trying to import a PDF and have software try to decipher the graphical info and turn it into actual musical info.
There are plenty of tutorials on how to enter music into MuseScore, see for instance this one:
https://school.masteringmusescore.com/courses/366102/lectures/6267305
In reply to Thanks, I'll try using… by jonathon.neville
Attempting to import from PDF works OK for simple scores, but for complex ones, it will almost always be far easy to simply enter the music manually yourself, and that is how the vast majority of music you see on msuescore.com is entered. It's way faster to enter the notes correctly in the first places than to have them converted incorrectly by OMR software and then need to painstakingly correct the errors.