compatibility
Hello,
I am currently using v3.6.2.548021803 of music score app. If I go an line and download a .mscz file and try to open it into the app, it says it's not compatible and I need to upgrade to a newer version. This is fine with me, but my question is:
If I upgrade to v4.5.3 does it still allow exporting a file to MusicXML, file type: Uncompressed (outdated) (*.xml)?
This is an important feature to me and is NOT available from the Musescore web interface.
Comments
Well there's no 4.5.3 and most probably never will be.
But MuseScore Studio 4 (all versions) can still export to uncompressed MusicXML, as .MusicXML and as .xml (which is exactly the same format, just a different file extension)
And my MuseScore 3.7 Evolution can read Mu4 scores...
And then save in a Mu3 format
And the web interface is only for sharing scores. It has no effect on what you can do with a score. Only the application--MuseScore Studio--can actually DO anything with a score ... like export it to musicxml.
In reply to And the web interface is… by TheHutch
Well, the website does provide downloads for Musescore (.mscz), PDF, MusicXML (.mxl) and Audio (.mp3)
In reply to Well, the website does… by Jojo-Schmitz
Oh *blush* Shouldn't have assumed.
So, the .MXL format is identical to the .XML that OP wants? All they have to do is change the extension?
In reply to Oh *blush* Shouldn't have… by TheHutch
No. .xml and .musicxml are identical. .mxl is compressed
In reply to No. .xml and .musicxml are… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks for the comments and help. It is true, one of the formats from the web is .mxl, but I don't think I can simply rename a .mxl file to a .xml file and it can imported as such. Examining the file as text, does not show xml.
As you said it is compressed, so a work around is to rename it as .zip then extract it. You then get an xml format file named "score.xml".
I did an upgrade and can see that I can export from the Musescore 4 version directly to xml with the file name maintained. My worry was that this capability might not have been carried forward.
Thanks
In reply to Thanks for the comments and… by ZootSuit
The menu path File > Export >MusicXML defaults to .mxl (compressed) format.
The format .musicxml (uncompressed) has to be selected manually from the dropdown options:
In reply to The menu path File > Export … by DanielR
And the outdated uncompressed (but identical to .musicxml) .xml too