[MusicXML export] Fretboard diagrams are not exported if no chord symbol is attached

• Jan 28, 2016 - 09:26
Type
Functional
Severity
S4 - Minor
Status
open issues
Project
MuseScore

981d82f/ Windows7

1) "My First Score"
2) Add a fretboard diagram (eg the diagram by default in the palette)
3) Export the score as XMLmusic file -> Save
4) Load this XML file into MuseScore

Result: the fretboard diagram has not been saved.

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• Jan 28, 2016 - 12:44

But this looks like being a different problem, here there seems that not even the attempt is made to store the fretboard into the XML, in the other case it does try, but then dereferences a null pointer when there is a fretboard diagram without any fret marks.

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• Jan 28, 2016 - 13:08

Moreover, note that after attaching a chord symbol to the fretboard diagram, the export is normally done (the fret diagram is preserved in this case), from what I see now.

Steps:

1) "My First Score"
2) Add a fretboard diagram, AND attach to it a chord symbol
3) Export as a XMLMusic file -> Save
4) Load into MuseScore

Result: as expected: fret diagram is preserved (and chord symbol, as expected too)

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• Jan 28, 2016 - 15:13
Title [MusicXML export] Fretboard diagrams are not exported ⇒ [MusicXML export] Fretboard diagrams are not exported if no chord symbol is attached

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• Jan 29, 2016 - 15:30
Status (old) active ⇒ postponed

Unfortunately, this issue currently cannot be solved. Reason for this is that while in MuseScore the chord symbol and fretboard are separate (and totally unrelated), in MusicXML a fretboard requires a chord. Fixing this requires requires a change of the MusicXML specification.

Issue set to postponed.

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