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MuseScore.com
Users can create a free account but downloads are limited. Those of us with paid accounts can download scores as .pdf, MuseScore, MusicXML and .mp3 as are available. Those scores marked Official are not included in the free downloads; they’re sold by Hal Leonard, the largest music publisher in the world and a wholly owned subsidiary of Muse Group.
If your works are properly registered, Hal Leonard will pay you for downloads. If arranging other peoples works under Copyright, Hal Leonard has another service called ArrangeMe where, if your arrangement qualifies, you get 10% of the sales of your arrangements. My daughter recently received a $977 check from that.
All works uploaded to MuseScore.com must be done in MuseScore. ArrangeMe does not have this requirement (yet?).
Oh, you don’t want anything that requires a sign-in… That’s not the way the world works.
Could AI contribute to the development of Encore 6 ?
No. AI cannot fix horrible code made far worse by 30 years of “quick fixes”.
This thread was started one year ago. Did we get any traction yet?
Maybe. I spoke with Don today but have nothing concrete to report other than he is back at work on this.
Short answer: No.
Don mentioned possible target dates when we talked today but none are as soon as this summer. No, I’m not going to mention them as that would raise hopes.
but will Encore run on an M1 Mac mini if it is built between those years?
NO.
There is no such thing as an M1 Mac introduced between 2012–2018. In fact, an Intel Mac introduced in September 2019 or later cannot run Mojave either—those shipped with Catalina with no support for 32 bit applications such as Encore. My wife has one of those 2019–2020 Intel iMacs.
Don, will you please please please finish the Encore upgrade?
Spoke with him today. Claims to be back at work on it.
That video is now two years old.
MuseScore 5 is also two years late. Tantacrul (real name Martin Keary), head of development, has since left Muse Group so it’s assumed that MS5 is likewise dead for now.
As posted above, any Mac built between 2012 and mid 2018 will run Encore but it needs to be 5.07. For some weird reason, in GetInfo, the correct build will show up as 5.06 1303M.
Mojave 10.14.4 and later is the only reliable macOS for this. You can install it on its own APFS Volume leaving your other APFS Volume to run your preferred macOS — Apple has support docs on this. That said, there are still bugs and major annoyances that will never be fixed unless Don releases Encore 6 which is looking less likely as the months progress.
Encore 5.06 was one of those horrible beta versions and should be removed completely. A few of us have the correct build and instructions for making it work on a Mac, myself included. I include instructions on removing older builds.
Glad to see this. Not been around as much as I’l like due to health issues and have been in and out of the hospital these last few months—just got back today.
I’ve tried but have been unable to confirm anything.
Unfortunately, I’ve been in and out of the hospital a few times in the last couple months, myself.
To Anastasia’s point about reinstalling where would I get the installation exe?
A few of us have it including Andre and myself. m i k e (at) h a l l o r a n m u s i c dot c o m. Please put your request in the title—I get hundreds of spam emails daily.
If I reinstall doesn’t the process fail because Passport is no longer able to register a new installation?
This is not an issue. If you have a license, you should be able to install. Andre is better with the Windows version than I since it’s been many years since I’ve owned a PC.
A few of us can. If these files have lyrics and text, translating into MusucXML alone takes many steps.
If you want to send one file to me, feel free. Title your email in a way I know it’s connect with this place and not spam.
m i k e (at) h a l l o r a n m u s i c dot c o m
Mike
— the prerequisite is to ensure that all users have PDF versions on disk of all their files.
As you and I have been advocating for years, Encore files must be saved as PDF if one has any hope of using them again.
— that I understand from all the discussions made here, the only practical tool is to use the PDFtoMusic product:
++ PDFtoMusicPro as a standalone tool to create XML2 version of the Encore files
It’s better than nothing but it isn’t as good as it should be… 1) If it doesn’t have the font in its library, it’s useless and 2) It’s MusicXML implementation is pretty poor — many things throw it off. 3) If you want to test this, export anything with dashed slurs from MuseScore and then try to import into PDFtoMusic Pro (PDFtoMusic cannot export MusicXML). Have your original PDF file open so that you can compare. Brace yourself for disappointment. When conditions are right, it’s a real time saver but I often find it faster and much more accurate to re-enter an old Encore project from scratch into Finale.
++ Plan PDFtoMusic for the users wanting to use Harmony Assistant as their future music editor.
Harmony Assistant is laughingly horrible on a Mac. It can’t read System Text and Lyric fonts — every Mac app absolutely, positively Must be able to do that. Likewise, it can’t read 3rd party fonts made available to All Applications — what I said about System Fonts. I’ve even posted here how to make embedded 3rd party app fonts available to all applications and Users on a Mac. I wish I could post screen shots. It may or may not get the notes right in an Encore file.
These methods require to become efficient with these products, perhaps with a user’s guide.
Good luck with that. Myriad Software would have to be interested in improving their apps. I’ve seen no reason to believe this will ever happen.
Would a forum be something useful?
I’m fine with this one and have no interest in another.
As I get older, I find I have less time for things that just don’t work anymore. Encore 5.0.7 for Mac makes too many mistakes thanks to buggy code. Since I always export to PDF, it’s not my imagination. I had to stop using it while working on the 2025 edition of my Christmas Book. It used to be faster to knock out simple arrangements in Encore but after correcting mistakes and exporting to Finale through PDFtoMusicPro — and then correcting That... just faster to do everything in Finale so now I do.
I’ve had Dorico for years but Finale is faster and I know how to keep it working for the next two years. MuseScore5 is two years late, I loathe Sibelius and Notion is now iPad/iOS only since Fender never updated the desktop app to full 64 bit support in the seven years they have owned it.
