MuseScore News

MuseScore 3.0.1 Release

Anatoly-os • 3 hours ago

Today we are pleased to release MuseScore 3.0.1. This is the first in what we intend to be a regular series of updates to MuseScore 3, the ground-breaking version of the world’s most popular music notation software.

Download MuseScore 3.0.1 Release

• Windows (64-bit only)
• macOS 10.12 or higher
• Linux AppImage (64-bit only)... read more

MuseScore 3 Released

Anatoly-os • 6 hours ago

Today we are excited to announce the release of MuseScore 3, a major step forward for the world's most popular music notation software.

The strengths of MuseScore have long been its ease of use, the large community of creators and wide availability of sheet music on musescore.com, and of course, the fact that it is free. We are also proud of how powerful MuseScore is and the quality of the engraving that it can produce. With the release of MuseScore... read more

MuseScore 3 Release Candidate

Anatoly-os • 19 minutes ago

Today we are pleased to announce the release candidate for MuseScore 3. Since the first beta release last than a month ago, we have resolved over 200 issues. Now, with all the most critical bugs fixed, we have produced one final pre-release build for testing. If no additional critical issues are confirmed, we will release MuseScore 3 on December 24!... read more

MuseScore 3.0 Beta Update Release (December 14, 2018)

Anatoly-os • 1 day ago

Today we are pleased to announce the release of MuseScore 3 Beta Update (December 14, 2018). Users have continued providing valuable feedback, and we have continued our torrid pace of fixing bugs with over 70 issues resolved in the past 7 days since the previous update! This release also brings some significant improvements to the automatic placement algorithms that should greatly reduce the number of times you need to override its decisions.... read more

MuseScore 3.0 Beta Update Release

Anatoly-os • 35 seconds ago

Today we are pleased to announce the release of MuseScore 3 Beta Update, the third in our series of beta releases. Thanks to the fantastic feedback from users and their assistance in filing bug reports, we have maintained an incredible pace and have fixed over 100 issues since the first beta release last week! Most notably, this update should be much more stable and experience fewer crashes, plus scores imported from 2.3.2 or previous versions will work much better. So... read more

MuseScore developer gathering at FOSDEM 2019

Thomas • 1 day ago

For a third consecutive year, we are organising a MuseScore developer meetup in Brussels at FOSDEM, the largest European open source developer conference. During the weekend of Feb 2 and 3, more than 8000 open source users and developers gather to talk about free and open source software. You can get the unique experience of meeting the developers behind some of the software you are using already, including MuseScore. So you are all invited to come and meet us... read more

MuseScore 3.0 Beta Release

Anatoly-os • 2 hours ago

We are pleased to announce the release of MuseScore 3.0 Beta.

We have been working on MuseScore 3 ever since the release of MuseScore 2 back in 2015, and with this Beta version, we are one big step closer to a final release. Meanwhile, we have fixed all the critical issues reported against the previous Alpha versions. We want to make sure MuseScore 3 is as bug-free as possible, so please help us test this Beta release.... read more

Preparing MuseScore 3.0 Beta release

Anatoly-os • 1 hour ago

Next public version of MuseScore 3.0 will be MuseScore 3.0 Beta. It comes with a lot of fixes made after Alpha 2 release.

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Translating MuseScore

We are going to push new strings from MuseScore 3.0 to Transifex. It means there will be a lot of new strings to translate. We need your help to finish translations.... read more

MuseScore 3.0 Alpha 2 Release

Anatoly-os • 1 day ago

We are pleased to announce the MuseScore 3.0 Alpha 2 release. This release shows the current state of MuseScore editor development. We fixed a lot of issues found after the first alpha release as well as others that existed before.... read more

Revising categories of the issues in the issue tracker

Anatoly-os • 12 seconds ago

Hello everyone.

We are pleased to announce upcoming changes going to happen with the Issue Tracker.

Abstract

Current categories describing the issues lead to misunderstanding in terms of priority and importance. Lack of predefined categories led to creating separate hit lists for particular versions summing up the most important issues to fix.
Taking the best practices from existing bug trackers, I prepared an update for the categories we have in the issue tracker. The most important goal here is... read more

MuseScore 3.0 alpha Release

Anatoly-os • 1 hour ago

We are pleased to announce the current state of MuseScore 3.0 via specially prepared builds with "alpha" label.

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Packages are available here

• Windows 64-bit
• MacOSX... read more

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[2018-09-06]

3.0alpha branch has been created.

We are preparing MuseScore 3.0 public alpha release. Links to the packages are going to be put on downloading page.
This release is supposed to show current state and significant progress in 3.0 development as well as attract more users to test the editor.... read more

MuseScore 64bit on Windows

Anatoly-os • 12 hours ago

[2018-08-23 16:00 GMT+2]

We do have a known issue related to last 64-bit builds: https://musescore.org/en/node/275547.
Applying solution is in progress. We will update this topic once it is fixed.

[2018-08-23 13:30 GMT+2]

• Migration completed successfully.
• AppVeyor builds MuseScore 3.0 64-bit version.
• Instructions have been updated respectively.... read more

Compilation of MuseScore with Visual Studio Community (MSVC) Release

Anatoly-os • 2 hours ago

We are pleased to announce a big step forward in compilation under Visual Studio and MSVC respectively. Compilation under Visual Studio Community is now available and fully supported.

Why do we need it?

MuseScore 3.0 is based on the latest Qt version. Unfortunately, QtWebKit which is used for MuseScore Connect is not presented in QT since version 5.4. So we migrated from QtWebKit (QWebView in particular) to QtWebEngine. Unfortunately, QtWebEngine team doesn’t maintain libs for MinGW due to the difficulties... read more

MuseScore 2.3.2 Release

Anatoly-os • 20 minutes ago

We are pleased to announce the release of MuseScore 2.3.2 which resolves several significant pending bugs, as well as a few regressions.

Among the fixes in this release is the “Upload Score Audio” issue. Now, If you use custom soundfonts or the MDL extension and share your score to Musescore.com using Save Online with the upload score audio feature, the score upload process should just work and playback should be as intended.... read more

MuseScore 2.3.2 and "Upload Score Audio" fix

Anatoly-os • 4 minutes ago

We are glad to announce upcoming MuseScore 2.3.2 minor release which brings fixes for two significant bugs:

• pending issue with uploading score audio
• Same note in different voices and lengths plays only the length of the shortest note... read more

MuseScore 2.3.1 Release

Anatoly-os • 6 days ago

Edit: After the release of MuseScore 2.3 on June 29th 2018, we found a couple of regressions that we addressed in MuseScore 2.3.1 released on July 6th 2018. We also updated all languages to latest translations. Check out the 2.3.1 Release Notes.... read more

MuseScore 2.3 Release

Anatoly-os • 5 days ago

We are pleased to announce the release of MuseScore 2.3

MuseScore 2.3 is a unique release. Though a large number of improvements have been focused on percussion, this release contains bug fixes and other improvements that make it recommended for all users, including the introduction of a major new development of interest to everyone moving forward.... read more

MuseScore 2.3 Release Candidate

Anatoly-os • 1 week ago

UPD (28.06.2018): the current version of MuseScore is 2.2.12 and is published as Release Candidate. The links below have been updated accordingly. Check out almost complete Release Notes.... read more

MuseScore 2.3 Beta version

Anatoly-os • 20 hours ago

Today, we are announcing the public release of the MuseScore 2.3 Beta version. It means we have done almost everything we plan to do for the release, and we are welcoming final round of testing to be sure we have not forgotten anything and everything works good.

The main improvements in this release are related to drumset editor and noteheads in particular. In addition to significantly expanding the collection of available noteheads, it is now possible to specify custom group... read more

Mastering MuseScore Online

Marc Sabatella • 2 days ago

My name is Marc Sabatella, and if you're reading this on the forums at musescore.org, you probably already know me as one of the developers of the software and a (very) frequent contributor here. You may also know me as the author of the comprehensive guide Mastering MuseScore, and if you've been around long enough, you may remember me as the composer of the song Reunion that was long used as the demo for MuseScore.... read more

Planning for a MuseScore 2.3 release

Anatoly-os • 1 day ago

On April 3rd we released MuseScore 2.2.1. As stated in the announcement, the next major version of MuseScore, version 3.0, is still in the works. It’s big endeavor to make MuseScore smarter, faster and easier to use.... read more

MuseScore 2.2 is released

Anatoly-os • 2 hours ago

We are pleased to announce the release of MuseScore 2.2.

Building on the foundation of 2.1 and select features from MuseScore 3 already in progress, MuseScore 2.2 offers a few new features and over 200 bug fixes and user interface improvements, making it both our most powerful and most stable version ever.

Download MuseScore 2.2... read more

Strings Freeze for MuseScore 2.2

lasconic • 1 hour ago

MuseScore user interface is available in 64 languages. Right now only 18 translations are 90% or more complete. We want to make sure that as many translations are completed for the release.

To give translators a head start, a "Strings Freeze" for MuseScore 2.2 is now on. Starting from now, we will not change or add any string in the code. Any string you translate now, will end up in MuseScore 2.2!... read more

Help us improve the sounds in MuseScore

s.chriscollins • 3 hours ago

Hello fellow MuseScorers! This is S. Christian Collins, virtual instrument designer and creator of the GeneralUser GS SoundFont. I have been asked by MuseScore to make some major upgrades to the default SoundFont for the next version of MuseScore (and beyond).

My goals for the new SoundFont include:
1. Improve the quality of the instrument sounds, starting with those most frequently used in scoring.
2. Address known issues with the current SoundFont, including notes that are out of tune, and... read more