[Athen] Music xml file creation

[Susan Kelmer]

Not the answer I wanted, but it is what it is.  Been digging around the internet for hours and reading lots of really nasty comments on MuseScore's bulletin boards. Yikes.  But just like math OCR, it's just not ready for primetime.  And the instructor for the course is expecting us to pay TAs a salary close to my own in order to do the work, and I'm trying to figure out if that is reasonable or not.

Bleh. Gotta have some roadblocks in the new semester, I suppose!  Thanks for your input, I do appreciate it!

Susan Kelmer
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I'm sure it's something you or your staff could learn to do, but you may want to take a crash course in music reading. It's not terribly complicated, and MuseScore is very user-friendly and has lots of tutorials on their website, but it will probably be a bit time-consuming, especially at first.

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Thanks, Andi.  We are trying to avoid hiring a specialist to do this work, and just make it part of our normal conversion processes.  We already do math and chem, and we are not content experts, so it would seem it wouldn't be awful to do, but I could be wrong.

Susan Kelmer
Alternate Format Production Program Manager
Disability Services
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T 303 735 4836
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Speaking as someone who reads music, I'm afraid the process of converting a PDF to a digital score is a lot like doing OCR, complete with the necessary editing after you get the digital version.

There is a free music notation program called MuseScore that you can download, https://musescore.org/en. There is also a pdf-to-Musescore site that you can use to upload a PDF and create a MuseScore file, https://musescore.com/import. Once you've done that then someone who knows how to use MuseScore and reads music can edit the resulting file and export to a MusicXML file, but there probably isn't a good way to skip the editing step.

I hope this helps. Good luck!

-Andi :)
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Subject: [Athen] Music xml file creation

I'm just starting to research this for a current student.  I'm wondering if anyone has converted PDF sheet music to music xml, and what your process is.  I'm finding some super-easy ways (like using adobe and export to xml) that seem suspicious because of their ease, but other more complicated ways that involve pricey software.

Anyone done any music xml creation, and if so, what are you using and are there written instructions?  I do not read music, or xml, as the case may be, so I don't know if what I'm converting through my experiments is any good.  Help please?

Susan Kelmer
Alternate Format Production Program Manager
Disability Services
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T 303 735 4836
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