Exporting PDFs in bulk?

• Apr 24, 2023 - 21:06

I'm working on a musical, and I've got 35+ separate MuseScore files that contain the score for the show. Since it's under development, the charts change fairly often, and when they do, I need to export new PDFs for performers. I'd like to be able to automate deploying changed files, but I don't think there's currently any easy way to make MuseScore export a score "hands-free," as in, under script control. Since I'm on a Mac, I might be able to use the graphic interface scripting system to allow a script to click the various menu items and buttons and whatnot, but thought I'd see if anybody else had any other suggestions, or knew of some feature that I hadn't noticed yet.

I'd also be curious if there's broader interest in having that functionality added to MuseScore. I suspect a lot of people using MuseScore are reconstructing existing charts, or composing new individual pieces, so they're not likely to need to export a folder full of scores all at the same time. But I've been wrong before. :)


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In reply to by Jm6stringer

Does this really work? I cannot get it working it seems.
This was my command:

C:\Users\jobbr\Downloads>"c:\Program Files\MuseScore 4\bin\Musescore4" --export-to 'Franciscus - Het einde.mscz' 'c:\Users\jobbr\Donwloads\Het einde.mp3'

From a windows CMD window, it seems to produce nothing. Also it looks like not any calculations or processing is taking place. The command returns after half a second with nothing.

In reply to by Zebigbos

Wrong order of arguments, try
"C:\Program Files\MuseScore 4\bin\Musescore4" --export-to 'Franciscus - Het einde.mp3' 'c:\Users\jobbr\Donwloads\Het einde.mscz'
provided you have an mscz and want an mp3 (as MuseScore can't import mp3s the other syntax doesn't make any sense)

Glory be. Yup, that'd be the solutions I'm looking for. I'll probably use the command line method, because I can embed that in code that will also rename the files and copy them onto a web server for access by the cast, but the plug-in's a lovely bit of work as well.

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