MuseScore and MuseSound enterprise distribution
I'm a Mac systems administrator at a university and would like to distribute MuseScore 4 and the MuseSounds packs to our School of Music's Mac fleet. Currently, I would have to go to each Mac, download and install MuseHub, configure the settings in the app, then download MuseScore 4 and the MuseSounds packs through MuseHub.
Would it be possible to create PKG distribution archives for MuseScore 4 and the individual MuseSounds packs? This would make it possible to upload packages to our internal Jamf software repository and install software as a mass action or based on group membership. It would also allow us to use Jamf's patch management features to ensure MuseScore is kept up-to-date. For admins who don't use Jamf, having PKG installers would also help automate installation through Munki, Apple Remote Desktop, Kandji, and other management suites.
Alternatively, is there a list of all the locations files are installed to when adding the MuseSound packs? This would at least allow Mac admins to manually package up the MuseSound packs for internal distribution. If I were to make packages in this way, would these PKG files be something that Muse Group would consider hosting for others to download?
Comments
In general, a way to download the MuseSounds library without using muse-hub at all would make me consider using MS4. That would also allow for custom campus packaging as requested here. Functionally, MS3.6 meets all my needs and is better shape anyway until all the bugs in v4 get fixed, but muse-hub is a show-stopper.
If there was a straightforward way to download the samples, using Torrents or not, without having to install such an obvious security hole (possibly of Russian origin) it would make Muse Group seem more legitimate. My experience with pro-level sample libraries tells me that sounds of the quality demoed for MuseSounds could sell for a nice fee and the fact that they are giving it away on the condition you install this dangerous code raises the possibility that getting that code installed is the actual goal here.
Any progress on this? I just got a request to install this in one of our labs of about 30 iMacs and realized I could deploy MS4 but the instructor is requesting all Muse Sounds and I can't even properly deploy Muse Hub. I can deploy the Muse Hub app but when a standard user launches it, they need admin credentials to install the helper...
So having the ability to deploy both the app and additional content without manually touching each mac would be great!
Thanks!
In reply to Any progress on this? I just… by mgvillanueva
On linux, to use musesounds, you only need the sampler library and the instruments.
see: https://musescore.org/en/node/340914
(of course, you must have 1 machine with musehub and helper installed to be able to download these)
On my systems this works just fine.
In reply to On linux, to use musesounds,… by graffesmusic
I've tried packing up the sampler library and instruments into a PKG file that puts everything into place and deploying that out to my test fleet, but MuseScore doesn't seem to recognize the libraries unless MuseHub is present and thinks it installed the packs.
I even tried making a "New and Modified Files" package in Jamf Composer where it snapshots the system "fresh" and then again after installing MuseHub and the MuseSounds libraries, pulls in all the files that changed, and generalizes the home-specific files so that they go into all users' libraries (and optionally, the template user) and it still wouldn't work in my test fleet.
I ended up just going out and installing MuseHub and the MuseSounds on all the whole lab by hand :(