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MuseScore 2.2 has landed with better sound, MIDI out and countless improvements. Get on board now! https://musescore.org/en/2.2 

Hello everyone.I’d like to present you the new upgrades to musescore.com that have been recently developed.For a long time, we have had groups and discussions where members can communicate freely. But it wasn’t so easy to find and most visitors don’t ... [More] even know about such an opportunity.  We don’t think it’s fair.Currently, MuseScore is one of the biggest online communities for musicians. About 100K people visit the site each day from countries all over the world. Though each may have different interests or musical tastes, music unites them all. Our aim is not only to share scores but also experiences like: how to better play musical instruments, develop skills or arrangement and composing. You should also discuss favourite composers and music from films, as well as publish articles on music and similar topics.Today we’ve launched our new Community page. You can find the link to it on the header of every page of the site. With one click you find all the most current active discussions, get a list of the most popular groups. Also, you can make use of new search capabilities including filters and full-text search to find exactly the discussions you are most interested in.The Community page shows:- Recommended discussions: Here you can find some of the most active discussions, with the ability to switch from “Recommended” to “Last discussion”.- Hubs (categories) are the core of the new section. A Hub is the place that brings people with similar interests together; those who play the same instrument, love the same genres of music or bands, music from films or video games, etc. By using filters on the left side of the page you can filter discussion by your interests.- Full-text search. Now you can search the community by discussions, messages, group names and usernames. This will enable visitors to find content related to certain topics. You can even limit your search to a single Hub.- Top Groups. Here you can find the full list of groups, instantly find groups related to your interests or take part in discussions.- My Groups. Quickly access content for each group you are a member of.- Add discussion. Now you can start new discussions right from the Community page simply by clicking the ‘Add discussion’ button and choosing a group where you want to place this discussion.We hope these new features will benefit all parts of our rapidly growing community. Seasoned musicians can now share their experiences and knowledge and get praises in return while aficionados of obscure genres and instruments can find their kindred spirits.FAQQ: Why are there so many groups without categories?A: Members of Musescore.com created thousands of groups, many of which have been ‘dead’ for a long time. To start, we manually selected some of the top groups for the categories, but eventually, the majority of the groups will be assigned to some hub.Q: How can I move my group to a hub?A: To do that, go to the group settings and choose a corresponding category for your group. After moderation, it’ll be moved to the hub of your choice.Q: What should I do if group moderator hasn’t been active for a long time and I want to move the group to a hub?A: Leave a comment with a link to the group here and we’ll make it happen. In the near future, we’ll post the guidelines on how inactive mods will be replaced.Q: I found a bug / I have some ideas on how to make the community better.A: Reach out to us in the comments on this page. In MuseScore, members are our main value and that’s why we’ll do our best to turn MuseScore into the biggest and most easy-to-use musician community in the world and there’s no better way to achieve this goal than by listening to our members who always know what’s best for the community.Thanks to everyone who’s read it.I hope you’ll like these changes as they are only the first step on the path of developing the community, the path that we’ll travel together.Looking forward to any feedback. [Less]

Hello everyone.I’d like to present you the new upgrades to musescore.com that have been recently developed.For a long time, we have had groups and discussions where members can communicate freely. But it wasn’t so easy to find and most visitors don’t ... [More] even know about such an opportunity.  We don’t think it’s fair.Currently, MuseScore is one of the biggest online communities for musicians. About 100K people visit the site each day from countries all over the world. Though each may have different interests or musical tastes, music unites them all. Our aim is not only to share scores but also experiences like: how to better play musical instruments, develop skills or arrangement and composing. You should also discuss favourite composers and music from films, as well as publish articles on music and similar topics.Today we’ve launched our new Community page. You can find the link to it on the header of every page of the site. With one click you find all the most current active discussions, get a list of the most popular groups. Also, you can make use of new search capabilities including filters and full-text search to find exactly the discussions you are most interested in.The Community page shows:- Recommended discussions: Here you can find some of the most active discussions, with the ability to switch from “Recommended” to “Last discussion”.- Hubs (categories) are the core of the new section. A Hub is the place that brings people with similar interests together; those who play the same instrument, love the same genres of music or bands, music from films or video games, etc. By using filters on the left side of the page you can filter discussion by your interests.- Full-text search. Now you can search the community by discussions, messages, group names and usernames. This will enable visitors to find content related to certain topics. You can even limit your search to a single Hub.- Top Groups. Here you can find the full list of groups, instantly find groups related to your interests or take part in discussions.- My Groups. Quickly access content for each group you are a member of.- Add discussion. Now you can start new discussions right from the Community page simply by clicking the ‘Add discussion’ button and choosing a group where you want to place this discussion.We hope these new features will benefit all parts of our rapidly growing community. Seasoned musicians can now share their experiences and knowledge and get praises in return while aficionados of obscure genres and instruments can find their kindred spirits.FAQQ: Why are there so many groups without categories?A: Members of Musescore.com created thousands of groups, many of which have been ‘dead’ for a long time. To start, we manually selected some of the top groups for the categories, but eventually, the majority of the groups will be assigned to some hub.Q: How can I move my group to a hub?A: To do that, go to the group settings and choose a corresponding category for your group. After moderation, it’ll be moved to the hub of your choice.Q: What should I do if group moderator hasn’t been active for a long time and I want to move the group to a hub?A: Leave a comment with a link to the group here and we’ll make it happen. In the near future, we’ll post the guidelines on how inactive mods will be replaced.Q: I found a bug / I have some ideas on how to make the community better.A: Reach out to us in the comments on this page. In MuseScore, members are our main value and that’s why we’ll do our best to turn MuseScore into the biggest and most easy-to-use musician community in the world and there’s no better way to achieve this goal than by listening to our members who always know what’s best for the community.Thanks to everyone who’s read it.I hope you’ll like these changes as they are only the first step on the path of developing the community, the path that we’ll travel together.Looking forward to any feedback. [Less]

Hello everyone.I’d like to present you the new upgrades to musescore.com that have been recently developed.For a long time, we have had groups and discussions where members can communicate freely. But it wasn’t so easy to find and most visitors don’t ... [More] even know about such an opportunity.  We don’t think it’s fair.Currently, MuseScore is one of the biggest online communities for musicians. About 100K people visit the site each day from countries all over the world. Though each may have different interests or musical tastes, music unites them all. Our aim is not only to share scores but also experiences like: how to better play musical instruments, develop skills or arrangement and composing. You should also discuss favourite composers and music from films, as well as publish articles on music and similar topics.Today we’ve launched our new Community page. You can find the link to it on the header of every page of the site. With one click you find all the most current active discussions, get a list of the most popular groups. Also, you can make use of new search capabilities including filters and full-text search to find exactly the discussions you are most interested in.The Community page shows:- Recommended discussions: Here you can find some of the most active discussions, with the ability to switch from “Recommended” to “Last discussion”.- Hubs (categories) are the core of the new section. A Hub is the place that brings people with similar interests together; those who play the same instrument, love the same genres of music or bands, music from films or video games, etc. By using filters on the left side of the page you can filter discussion by your interests.- Full-text search. Now you can search the community by discussions, messages, group names and usernames. This will enable visitors to find content related to certain topics. You can even limit your search to a single Hub.- Top Groups. Here you can find the full list of groups, instantly find groups related to your interests or take part in discussions.- My Groups. Quickly access content for each group you are a member of.- Add discussion. Now you can start new discussions right from the Community page simply by clicking the ‘Add discussion’ button and choosing a group where you want to place this discussion.We hope these new features will benefit all parts of our rapidly growing community. Seasoned musicians can now share their experiences and knowledge and get praises in return while aficionados of obscure genres and instruments can find their kindred spirits.FAQQ: Why are there so many groups without categories?A: Members of Musescore.com created thousands of groups, many of which have been ‘dead’ for a long time. To start, we manually selected some of the top groups for the categories, but eventually, the majority of the groups will be assigned to some hub.Q: How can I move my group to a hub?A: To do that, go to the group settings and choose a corresponding category for your group. After moderation, it’ll be moved to the hub of your choice.Q: What should I do if group moderator hasn’t been active for a long time and I want to move the group to a hub?A: Leave a comment with a link to the group here and we’ll make it happen. In the near future, we’ll post the guidelines on how inactive mods will be replaced.Q: I found a bug / I have some ideas on how to make the community better.A: Reach out to us in the comments on this page. In MuseScore, members are our main value and that’s why we’ll do our best to turn MuseScore into the biggest and most easy-to-use musician community in the world and there’s no better way to achieve this goal than by listening to our members who always know what’s best for the community.Thanks to everyone who’s read it.I hope you’ll like these changes as they are only the first step on the path of developing the community, the path that we’ll travel together.Looking forward to any feedback. [Less]

Hello everyone.I’d like to present you the new upgrades to musescore.com that have been recently developed.For a long time, we have had groups and discussions where members can communicate freely. But it wasn’t so easy to find and most visitors don’t ... [More] even know about such an opportunity.  We don’t think it’s fair.Currently, MuseScore is one of the biggest online communities for musicians. About 100K people visit the site each day from countries all over the world. Though each may have different interests or musical tastes, music unites them all. Our aim is not only to share scores but also experiences like: how to better play musical instruments, develop skills or arrangement and composing. You should also discuss favourite composers and music from films, as well as publish articles on music and similar topics.Today we’ve launched our new Community page. You can find the link to it on the header of every page of the site. With one click you find all the most current active discussions, get a list of the most popular groups. Also, you can make use of new search capabilities including filters and full-text search to find exactly the discussions you are most interested in.The Community page shows:- Recommended discussions: Here you can find some of the most active discussions, with the ability to switch from “Recommended” to “Last discussion”.- Hubs (categories) are the core of the new section. A Hub is the place that brings people with similar interests together; those who play the same instrument, love the same genres of music or bands, music from films or video games, etc. By using filters on the left side of the page you can filter discussion by your interests.- Full-text search. Now you can search the community by discussions, messages, group names and usernames. This will enable visitors to find content related to certain topics. You can even limit your search to a single Hub.- Top Groups. Here you can find the full list of groups, instantly find groups related to your interests or take part in discussions.- My Groups. Quickly access content for each group you are a member of.- Add discussion. Now you can start new discussions right from the Community page simply by clicking the ‘Add discussion’ button and choosing a group where you want to place this discussion.We hope these new features will benefit all parts of our rapidly growing community. Seasoned musicians can now share their experiences and knowledge and get praises in return while aficionados of obscure genres and instruments can find their kindred spirits.FAQQ: Why are there so many groups without categories?A: Members of Musescore.com created thousands of groups, many of which have been ‘dead’ for a long time. To start, we manually selected some of the top groups for the categories, but eventually, the majority of the groups will be assigned to some hub.Q: How can I move my group to a hub?A: To do that, go to the group settings and choose a corresponding category for your group. After moderation, it’ll be moved to the hub of your choice.Q: What should I do if group moderator hasn’t been active for a long time and I want to move the group to a hub?A: Leave a comment with a link to the group here and we’ll make it happen. In the near future, we’ll post the guidelines on how inactive mods will be replaced.Q: I found a bug / I have some ideas on how to make the community better.A: Reach out to us in the comments on this page. In MuseScore, members are our main value and that’s why we’ll do our best to turn MuseScore into the biggest and most easy-to-use musician community in the world and there’s no better way to achieve this goal than by listening to our members who always know what’s best for the community.Thanks to everyone who’s read it.I hope you’ll like these changes as they are only the first step on the path of developing the community, the path that we’ll travel together.Looking forward to any feedback. [Less]

Hello everyone.I’d like to present you the new upgrades to musescore.com that have been recently developed.For a long time, we have had groups and discussions where members can communicate freely. But it wasn’t so easy to find and most visitors don’t ... [More] even know about such an opportunity.  We don’t think it’s fair.Currently, MuseScore is one of the biggest online communities for musicians. About 100K people visit the site each day from countries all over the world. Though each may have different interests or musical tastes, music unites them all. Our aim is not only to share scores but also experiences like: how to better play musical instruments, develop skills or arrangement and composing. You should also discuss favourite composers and music from films, as well as publish articles on music and similar topics.Today we’ve launched our new Community page. You can find the link to it on the header of every page of the site. With one click you find all the most current active discussions, get a list of the most popular groups. Also, you can make use of new search capabilities including filters and full-text search to find exactly the discussions you are most interested in.The Community page shows:- Recommended discussions: Here you can find some of the most active discussions, with the ability to switch from “Recommended” to “Last discussion”.- Hubs (categories) are the core of the new section. A Hub is the place that brings people with similar interests together; those who play the same instrument, love the same genres of music or bands, music from films or video games, etc. By using filters on the left side of the page you can filter discussion by your interests.- Full-text search. Now you can search the community by discussions, messages, group names and usernames. This will enable visitors to find content related to certain topics. You can even limit your search to a single Hub.- Top Groups. Here you can find the full list of groups, instantly find groups related to your interests or take part in discussions.- My Groups. Quickly access content for each group you are a member of.- Add discussion. Now you can start new discussions right from the Community page simply by clicking the ‘Add discussion’ button and choosing a group where you want to place this discussion.We hope these new features will benefit all parts of our rapidly growing community. Seasoned musicians can now share their experiences and knowledge and get praises in return while aficionados of obscure genres and instruments can find their kindred spirits.FAQQ: Why are there so many groups without categories?A: Members of Musescore.com created thousands of groups, many of which have been ‘dead’ for a long time. To start, we manually selected some of the top groups for the categories, but eventually, the majority of the groups will be assigned to some hub.Q: How can I move my group to a hub?A: To do that, go to the group settings and choose a corresponding category for your group. After moderation, it’ll be moved to the hub of your choice.Q: What should I do if group moderator hasn’t been active for a long time and I want to move the group to a hub?A: Leave a comment with a link to the group here and we’ll make it happen. In the near future, we’ll post the guidelines on how inactive mods will be replaced.Q: I found a bug / I have some ideas on how to make the community better.A: Reach out to us in the comments on this page. In MuseScore, members are our main value and that’s why we’ll do our best to turn MuseScore into the biggest and most easy-to-use musician community in the world and there’s no better way to achieve this goal than by listening to our members who always know what’s best for the community.Thanks to everyone who’s read it.I hope you’ll like these changes as they are only the first step on the path of developing the community, the path that we’ll travel together.Looking forward to any feedback. [Less]

Dear MuseScore CommunityI would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself and provide a personal note.I founded Ultimate Guitar 20 years ago to provide platform that connected guitarists with each other and the music they love.  Since then it ... [More] has grown to a community of over 100M passionate guitarists who discuss everything about learning and playing guitar and have created over 1.5 Million guitar tablatures so that the community can learn their favorite songs.   The thing that struck me immediately about MuseScore is that it has an amazing community of musicians, composers, transcribers, students, teachers, and developers. The music, technology and passion that you have all contributed to MuseScore is inspiring. Together you have created the most extensive and affordable online resource for musicians to create, learn and play music. My plan for MuseScore is not to come in and change everything, but rather to provide the community with the resources it needs to make more music available to more people.Music is a powerful thing. It makes us all better people; it connects us to each other. It makes the good times better and the bad times a little less painful. I want to empower the MuseScore community to build the platform and create the content that will allow everyone to have music affect them the way it already moves those of us who are here today.There is a lot of work to do, but Ultimate Guitar is adding its experience and team to the existing team and community to tackle some of MuseScore’s biggest challenges and build upon what is already here.One accomplishment we have already achieved is concluding worldwide licensing deals with several music publishers, including one of the largest in the world. These deals give MuseScore the legal right to display scores of almost all of these companies’ copyrighted works. While these are only a few deals and there are a lot more to do, we are working hard to make sure that not only can you legally post scores of all copyrighted works, but also that the original composers will get paid for this.    We are also building up the MuseScore development team to help the developer community improve MuseScore’s desktop and mobile products quicker. The improvements we work on will continue to be based on the community’s feedback. For example, among other things, there have been numerous requests to improve the functionality of the mobile apps and the quality of the soundfont’s audio. As a result, we have already established a dedicated mobile development team and hired a soundfont specialist to focus on improving these areas. And in case you’re wondering, yes, of course the notation editor will continue to be open source and free.Lastly, I would like to thank Werner, Thomas and Nicolas for creating MuseScore and creating a wonderful tool and community. I would also like to thank them for allowing me and my team to be a part of MuseScore’s next chapter. They have poured their hearts and their souls into making MuseScore what it is today, and they will continue to be a part of the MuseScore team for the foreseeable future.Sincerely,Eugeny NaidenovP.S. Check out this video from Daniel Ray, one of MuseScore’s new team members [Less]

Dear MuseScore CommunityI would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself and provide a personal note.I founded Ultimate Guitar 20 years ago to provide platform that connected guitarists with each other and the music they love.  Since then it ... [More] has grown to a community of over 100M passionate guitarists who discuss everything about learning and playing guitar and have created over 1.5 Million guitar tablatures so that the community can learn their favorite songs.   The thing that struck me immediately about MuseScore is that it has an amazing community of musicians, composers, transcribers, students, teachers, and developers. The music, technology and passion that you have all contributed to MuseScore is inspiring. Together you have created the most extensive and affordable online resource for musicians to create, learn and play music. My plan for MuseScore is not to come in and change everything, but rather to provide the community with the resources it needs to make more music available to more people.Music is a powerful thing. It makes us all better people; it connects us to each other. It makes the good times better and the bad times a little less painful. I want to empower the MuseScore community to build the platform and create the content that will allow everyone to have music affect them the way it already moves those of us who are here today.There is a lot of work to do, but Ultimate Guitar is adding its experience and team to the existing team and community to tackle some of MuseScore’s biggest challenges and build upon what is already here.One accomplishment we have already achieved is concluding worldwide licensing deals with several music publishers, including one of the largest in the world. These deals give MuseScore the legal right to display scores of almost all of these companies’ copyrighted works. While these are only a few deals and there are a lot more to do, we are working hard to make sure that not only can you legally post scores of all copyrighted works, but also that the original composers will get paid for this.    We are also building up the MuseScore development team to help the developer community improve MuseScore’s desktop and mobile products quicker. The improvements we work on will continue to be based on the community’s feedback. For example, among other things, there have been numerous requests to improve the functionality of the mobile apps and the quality of the soundfont’s audio. As a result, we have already established a dedicated mobile development team and hired a soundfont specialist to focus on improving these areas. And in case you’re wondering, yes, of course the notation editor will continue to be open source and free.Lastly, I would like to thank Werner, Thomas and Nicolas for creating MuseScore and creating a wonderful tool and community. I would also like to thank them for allowing me and my team to be a part of MuseScore’s next chapter. They have poured their hearts and their souls into making MuseScore what it is today, and they will continue to be a part of the MuseScore team for the foreseeable future.Sincerely,Eugeny NaidenovP.S. Check out this video from Daniel Ray, one of MuseScore’s new team members [Less]

Dear all,Today we’d like to share important news with you concerning MuseScore.Ten years ago we (Werner, Nicolas and Thomas) started working on MuseScore with the mission to democratise access to sheet music. The plan came in two steps. First by ... [More] developing free music notation software for everyone, then followed by a platform to upload and share sheet music. The latter is a commercial service which sustained the development of the free and open source MuseScore music notation software.We can fairly state that today MuseScore is the most popular notation software on the market, and by extend the world’s largest sheet music creators community. This is a great achievement which we, as an open source community, should be extremely proud of. Millions of people are learning and creating music with MuseScore every year.That said, it’s important to also look at the other side of the medallion, a side which we didn’t much communicate about. As MuseScore has become a very large software project, on which so many users rely on for their hobby and work, keeping up with the growth has become a major challenge. Our company resources were not equally growing fast enough, and therefore the future of the MuseScore project could become uncertain.It was always our intention to put a business model in place which could work for all stakeholders involved (creators, right holders, consumers) but we learnt that we could only achieve this by either a substantial external investment, or through a strategic partnership with a company who has established relationships with music publishers. After some time of researching both options, we opted for the latter.In short, we have decided to let Ultimate Guitar acquire the MuseScore company. Ultimate Guitar has pioneered a successful model for working with music publishers, and all MuseScore users will be able to benefit from this. Additionally, there are more resources now to take on the next steps and turn MuseScore into the online destination for sheet music.Of course, it is important to all of us that the open source nature of the MuseScore project is preserved. Therefore we would like to emphasize that the MuseScore notation software remains open source and that all code contributions will continue to be made under GPLv2. We are fully committed to make MuseScore 3 and all future releases happen and we will continue to make them available for free to the world.We would like to thank everyone who has been on our journey so far and we hope to continue to work with all of you on the future of MuseScore. We also like to invite you to read the announcement by Ultimate Guitar founder Eugeny Naidenov.Yours truly,Werner, Nicolas, Thomas [Less]

Dear all,Today we’d like to share important news with you concerning MuseScore.Ten years ago we (Werner, Nicolas and Thomas) started working on MuseScore with the mission to democratise access to sheet music. The plan came in two steps. First by ... [More] developing free music notation software for everyone, then followed by a platform to upload and share sheet music. The latter is a commercial service which sustained the development of the free and open source MuseScore music notation software.We can fairly state that today MuseScore is the most popular notation software on the market, and by extend the world’s largest sheet music creators community. This is a great achievement which we, as an open source community, should be extremely proud of. Millions of people are learning and creating music with MuseScore every year.That said, it’s important to also look at the other side of the medallion, a side which we didn’t much communicate about. As MuseScore has become a very large software project, on which so many users rely on for their hobby and work, keeping up with the growth has become a major challenge. Our company resources were not equally growing fast enough, and therefore the future of the MuseScore project could become uncertain.It was always our intention to put a business model in place which could work for all stakeholders involved (creators, right holders, consumers) but we learnt that we could only achieve this by either a substantial external investment, or through a strategic partnership with a company who has established relationships with music publishers. After some time of researching both options, we opted for the latter.In short, we have decided to let Ultimate Guitar acquire the MuseScore company. Ultimate Guitar has pioneered a successful model for working with music publishers, and all MuseScore users will be able to benefit from this. Additionally, there are more resources now to take on the next steps and turn MuseScore into the online destination for sheet music.Of course, it is important to all of us that the open source nature of the MuseScore project is preserved. Therefore we would like to emphasize that the MuseScore notation software remains open source and that all code contributions will continue to be made under GPLv2. We are fully committed to make MuseScore 3 and all future releases happen and we will continue to make them available for free to the world.We would like to thank everyone who has been on our journey so far and we hope to continue to work with all of you on the future of MuseScore. We also like to invite you to read the announcement by Ultimate Guitar founder Eugeny Naidenov.Yours truly,Werner, Nicolas, Thomas [Less]