Isaac Weiss's blog

In last week’s post, “Discovering MuseScore,” I wrote about how I first started using MuseScore 1.1 at the age of thirteen, how I very gradually became involved with the project, and how much I came to love and appreciate MuseScore. Now, I’m going to look at the other side of things: how terribly limited MuseScore still is in some areas.

Last week, I mentioned re-extracting parts using MuseScore 1 and having to go through them all again to

I’ve been using MuseScore since I was thirteen, when MuseScore was at version 1.1. I wanted to write music on a computer, and spending money was not an option. I used a different free program called Finale Notepad at first, but it was insanely limited (deliberately: the makers wanted users to become frustrated so they would buy other versions of Finale). MuseScore, by comparison, seemed to have no limits at all—at least, it completely satisfied my needs at the time.