Looking for testers for my extension of the Batch Convert plugin

• Sep 8, 2022 - 11:37

Hi,

I made several enhancements in the Batch Convert plugin:
* New possibility to filter the files to convert (already merged and available in the official plugin)
* Export the files in a folder structure based on the score properties. E.g. export the scores of John Coltrane pieces in a "john coltrane" subfolder.
* Improved workflow: it is no longer required to select the import and export folders at every selection
* Preview button, handy to fine tune the filter option and the folder structure.

Download and more info on my batch_export page on github.

For now, there are two known issue:
* if a file does not have a property required by the folder structure (e.g. in my above-mentioned example with "John Coltrane", a file not defining the "Composer" property), the plugin is not able to create the default folder (being "unspecified/"). It really puzzles me why it fails at creating a folder in such case.

the translations are not done

If anyone could test it, I'll appreciate it. Especially the "folder structure" feature which relies on platform specific code and that I could only test in my window environment. Thanks!

For now, it will remain an unofficial version, due to that platform-specific code. To be discussed Jojo-Schmitz, maintainer of the official plugin. I've also filled two Change Request in order to get rid of that platform-specific code (1,2), but the Musescore team has higher priorities than the Plugin API.

Comments

Jojo-Schmitz

• Sep 8, 2022 - 11:42

Jojo-Schmitz please, not Jojo-Smith (even if most pobably the later would be my name had I migrated to the US in the 18th century, due to the migration officers on Ellis Island just changing it)

Edit: now fixed above ;-)

parkingb

• Sep 8, 2022 - 11:53

Sorry. I'll pay attention for the next time.

parkingb

• Sep 15, 2022 - 19:54

No one ?
At least a basic test on a Mac or Linux system to check if the creation of folders is working correctly.
What you need is a Score with composer (e.g.) defined in its properties. Then using my Batch Convert plugin. Define an Export Structure such as "%COMPOSER%", and the do the conversion.
A subfolder should be created with the composer's name and the exports should be placed in that subfolder.
Thanks !!

msfp

• Sep 17, 2022 - 03:38

plugin version: "3.6"; Musescore3.6.2; Windows10
Thank you, the new functions are real time savers, no need to choose the same folder again and again.
Tested all good except one possible typo(works in my english version musescore after removing "u"):
metaTag("mouvementNumber")
metaTag("mouvementTitle")
https://github.com/fp22june/MuseScoreTag362/blob/master/share/templates…

Jojo-Schmitz

• Sep 17, 2022 - 09:04

That should be language independent

parkingb

• Sep 17, 2022 - 11:58

Thanks. These two ones escaped to my tests.
Corrected. And pushed to my repo. Next action : the translations. Then, we could discuss whether push that in the main Batch Convert plugin or keep it as a separated plugin.

parkingb

• Nov 21, 2022 - 10:37

I released my version of the batch_export plugin.
Now internationalized(*) and tested under Linux.

For anyone interested.
Rem: This still requires MuseScore 3.x !!
I saw that Jojo-Schmitz ported the original version to MuseScore 4.0. I will merge this into my fork. And then we could discuss about merging my version into the Jojo's version.

(*) At least French is done, and released. The other ones are not done.

Jojo-Schmitz

• Nov 21, 2022 - 12:17

I believe in MuseScore 4 it isn't working (yet)

parkingb

• Nov 25, 2022 - 22:23

Indeed. But I solved your logo issue:

// optional for MuseScore 4, not working in 3 though, causing it to not load at all there
// a bit of a pity: only the default icon in the plugin manager, but not (yet) worth a separate 4.x version
//thumbnailName: "batch-convert.png"

Nice, isn't it ? :-D