Trying to edit old Muse Score files...
Hello,
I have created several children's music books with MuseScore over the years. When I try to open and edit songs from the books I created in 2016, the formatting is all messed up.
Is there a way to restore them to their original format?
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| IL2 I Love You.mscz | 250.56 KB |
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Given there are very few measures, perhaps just fixing everything manual will be faster?
In reply to It appears they were created… by memeweaver
Thank you for your quick reply. I am trying to open them with v3 and I did disable the new fonts and layout. The trick is that I have about 540 songs like this in 36 different books... but I am guessing that going through and fixing things manually is going to be the best bet. I was hoping I was missing something simple since I haven't used MuseScore much in the last year or two. I really appreciate your time.
In reply to Thank you for your quick… by Raya Warehime …
You can reinstall the old version of Musescore from here https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/musescore-nightlies/windows/3x/stable/. It can coexist alongside version 3 and version 4.
That should allow you to at least view the scores in their original format and do some editing. But of course if you want to use more recent editing features that will not be much help.
In reply to You can reinstall the old… by SteveBlower
Thank you! I will try this! :)
The algorithms have improved tremendously over the years, meaning that scores in which you made lots of manual adjustments to overcome the deficiencies of older versions will now look weird indeed. If you're just trying to do a quick edit, easiest to just use the old version on those files. but if you're planning on spending more than an hour or so on an update to a score, it will almost certainly be better to use MsueScore 4 - with vastly improved defaults - first resetting all you old manual adjustments and reassessing what adjustments might be needed to achieve some custom effect here or there.
In the case of this file in particular, it seems you also misused staff text to substitute for fingering, and that's a problem you'd want to fix. MuseScore 2 might not have done anything smart with actual fingering, but MuseWScore 3 & 4 do, so entering correctly fixes a lot of problems were needing to fix manually in the past.
In reply to The algorithms have improved… by Marc Sabatella
Thank you so much. I really appreciate all of this feedback. In the new version, what kind of text is best to use to write instructions at the bottom of the page such as, "This song has the same fingering as another song you know..."?
In reply to Thank you so much. I really… by Raya Warehime …
Add a frame with text. There are several sorts of frames with different properties.
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/page-layout-concepts#frame
In reply to Thank you so much. I really… by Raya Warehime …
Adding text at the bottom of a page can be done via the footer (set in Format / Style), or somewhat more awkwardly, via an appended frame.