Sergios - Anestis Kefalidis's blog

Excitement

Greetings! Let me tell you what has happened in the magical world of Albums last week :-)

Last week's progress

I spent last week trying to track down and fix test failures and performance issues. I am happy to report that both problems have been dealt with. The latest version of my branch has successfully passed all tests (including tst_albums). In addition to that, I resolved the noticeable performance degradation in album-mode when more than 3-4 scores were present

Excitement

Welcome, once again, to this running series of weekly blog posts about the Albums feature. The last seven days proved to be very exciting. Let me share that excitement with you.

MuseScore Café

First of all, I want to thank Marc Sabatella for inviting me to last week's MuseScore Café to talk about GSoC and this project. Check it out if you want to learn more about Albums (especially if you haven't read the previous blogs) or about MuseScore

Decisions, decisions.

Hello again, it's time for our weekly blog-meeting. This was an interesting week. I continued working on the Album-mode (if you don't remember, this is the mode where the user sees and edits the entire album as a single score), mainly on laying out the movements correctly and drawing them. I also spent a considerable amount of time trying to understand the relationships between the various Score classes in the MuseScore database and thinking of possible ways to

Album-mode

Greetings and salutations MuseScore blog readers, this week I will show you the 2nd mode of operation in action, Album-mode.

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Progress

The Good

• As promised last week I worked on the layout and playback of scores with multiple movements. I am happy to announce that most of my attempts have been met with success, as you will see on the video. The movements are displayed properly, playing the album works, and editing the individual score

A quiet week

This week I have no flashy video to show you since most of my time was spent on improving the code quality and becoming familiar with some useful MuseScore classes. Hopefully, the work done this week will enable me to make some pretty big strides next week :-)

What progress was made this week?

This week I focused my efforts on improving the existing code (rewriting and adding comments) and fixing bugs/crashes. That includes fixing various crashes

Greetings MuseScore blog readers!

I am Sergios - Anestis Kefalidis, an undergraduate Computer Science student from Greece. As you might have guessed from the title, for the next few months, I will be working on bringing back Albums. Many of you have been waiting a long time for this feature so I am quite eager to hear your thoughts and suggestions :^)

What is that 'Albums' feature? (Synopsis)

'Albums' is a feature that allows you to combine compositions into a