Title, composer and lyricist should be exported to musicxml

• Mar 17, 2019 - 10:28
Reported version
3.0
Type
Functional
Frequency
Once
Severity
S4 - Minor
Reproducibility
Always
Status
by design
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project
MuseScore
Tags
musicxml

When exporting a new created music sheet to musicxml neither title nor composer or lyricist are exported.
When importing a musicxml file with

  <work>
    <work-title>title<\work-title>
  </work>
  <identifcation>
    <creator type="composer">composer </creator>
  </identification>

this information is not shown as title or composer in musescore but exported to musicxml without change.
I'd like to have a connection to the musescore internal score information title, composer and lyricist.
I don't know if musicxml offers the possibility to store subtitle and copyright too.

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• Mar 17, 2019 - 12:09
Severity S5 - Suggestion ⇒ S4 - Minor

Hmm, in the meantime I found, sometimes title and composer ARE exported correctly, and sometimes not.
I attach an example where the title and composer are NOT exported.

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• Mar 17, 2019 - 12:18
Status active ⇒ needs info

The score got last saved with MuseScore 2.3.2 (and apparently stems from a MusicXML import). Opening in MuseScore 3.0.5 and exporting as musicxml, and importing it again and the composer is there. Same when importing the musicxml you attached here. Same when importing them in MuseScore 2.3.2.

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• Mar 17, 2019 - 13:07

The tags shown in the example above are not in the musicxml file, even after conversion to MuseScore 3.0.5. Look into the musicxml file with an ascii-editor.
Instead there are  <credit> tags, where the information can be found.
But sometimes the tags work-title and creator are also exported.
This is another strange behaviour:
1. I take the empty 'Title' score, MuseScore offers as a beginning, and save it in musicxml. The tags  <work-title> and  <creator type="composer"> are filled.
2. Change the text of title and composer in MuseScore and save it again to musicxml. Result: The tags  <work-title> and  <creator> are there, but the text they hold is still the original text ('Title', 'composer'), not the changed text.
The changed text is in the the  <credit> tag.

I think, that the text in  <work-title> and  <creator> has to be changed also.
And sometimes these tags are not present in the musicxml file, when they should.

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• Mar 17, 2019 - 13:51

I guess the tags work-title and creator are filled only with the first saving and will not and can not be changed in further savings. If the first saving has no title and no composer the tags are not in the musicxml file and will never come in.

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• Mar 17, 2019 - 14:27
Status active ⇒ by design

Score Properties > workTitle and composer are empty in the mscz file (but ypou can set them after file creation).
And so nothing to export (but if you do fill them, they do get exported).

If not set, nothing to export, if not exported, nothing to import.

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• Mar 17, 2019 - 17:18

Ah, I see. They are independent data and have nothing to do with the text properties 'Title' and 'composer', that are set by Add > Text > Title, Add > Text > Composer. Thank you.

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