Videoscore not showing up + Ownership question

• Jan 23, 2016 - 21:57

Hi there, I decided to try making some videoscores so I did a piano recording of a song I found on here that I liked: https://musescore.com/user/17558/scores/57997 as you can see it's a Zelda tune titled Graandma. So I clicked "make video score," put in my youtube URL, did the spacebar thing so the music lines up with the video, great. Here is the videoscore I made: https://musescore.com/node/1660451

The only issue is that there is no link to see the videoscore on the sheet music profile page. If you look at this page for example, https://musescore.com/the-wise-wolf/kindred you'll see its videoscore listed on the right just above the "Info" section. But why isn't the one I created on the page of the song I created it for? Does the owner of the sheet music page have to approve my videoscore to be shown on his/her page?

Another question is what is the point of a videoscore? I thought it was that we can SEE the piece being played by somebody. Many of the videoscores I've encountered are just people giving links to an mp3 of the piece on youtube accompanied by pictures or videos of a game or anime. Seems to me like a waste of time, if they want to see that kind of a video then the score's arranger should simply put the link in the comments.

And my last question is that at this point, it seems anyone can link any youtube video to musescore and turn it into a videoscore. To me that doesn't seem quite fair. As a teacher, I like the educational value it has but what if the person who posted their video on youtube doesn't want their video on this site? It could be just their preference or it could be that there's crucial information in the video description. As well, although the person who arranged the piece did the arranging, they did not compose nor perform the piece and using someone else's video can potentially give them undue credit. To solve this, I propose using a quick youtube account ownership verification that would work like this: when you put in a url to the videoscore, Musescore.com/.org looks at that page and finds the username, a PM is then sent to their youtube account with a 4 character alpha-numeric code (ex. 4H3P), collect the code from your youtube account, then you'll have to enter it back on your musescore videoscore page to verify.

Thanks for taking the time to read.


Comments

I can't answer your questions about ownership or permission, but i can address your question about the "point" of videoscores.

One point of a video score is to show video a real performance, yes. But another might be to get different audio - perhaps playing MuseScore through an external synthesizer or with an alternate soundfont.

In reply to by Marc Sabatella

Hi Marc, thanks for taking the time to read my post. What you are saying about externals and soundfonts does make sense. I guess a more direct solution to soundfonts would be to enable their usage on the site. I have my ideas of how these would be implemented but I don't assume you are bored enough to read through them, haha, but would be happy to share if that's not the case.

I could have probably chosen better words to express my thoughts on the matter but internally I wish that we can be a society that does more doing instead of always finding the easy way around things, especially when referencing a standard level of musicianship. Sorry if my views offend, I am only wanting a musically engaged and capable society because I know we can be.

To answer question 1: it used to be that all videoscores were featured on the score page, whether they were created by the score author, whether by someone else. After receiving feedback from authors that they didn't want to see videoscores listed other than their own, we changed the listing of videoscores. Now if you create a videoscore of a score not uploaded by yourself, you can only see the videoscore listed on your profile page under the videoscores tab.

The last question has a simple answer: a YouTube video creator has a setting to en/disable the embedding of videos on third party websites.

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