Help My Score Got Corrupted
While editing musescore crashed. when I restarted the app and tried to open my score it gave the error message below same with the copy. I would be incredibly grateful for your help if there is any way to fix it. This song is over 1000 measures and has been a month's worth of work.
File "" is critically corrupted and cannot be processed.
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Here is the file itself as well as the copy.
In reply to Here is the file itself as… by jordonplogvlo
The file contains many more errors than MuseScore reports. There are a lot of measures with incorrect resp. different durations of staff 1 and 2. In some cases, two or three measures are joined together. You must split them. First have a look on the reported measures, then look on those which show a light gray plus or minus sign. This indicates a wrong measure length.
The score was probably imported from a PDF file, and I don't think you've spent much time yet. But you will have to spend a lot of time to fix it. We can't do that because we don't have the original score.
OMR (optical music recognition) is far from working perfectly!
You'll have to compare each measure to your PDF sheet and fix it if there are differences. Yes, the score can be fixed, but it will be a lot of work!
In reply to The file contains many more… by HildeK
How do you edit the file when it won't open?
In reply to How do you edit the file… by jordonplogvlo
I am using MuS 3.6.2. To open a MuS 4 file I must extract the mscx from the mscz file (which is a zipped file).
This mscx opens in MuS 3 but should also open in MuS 4.
When I save the MuS 3 version and open it again, I get these error messages:
Measure 287, staff 1 incomplete. Expected: 58/64; Found: 176/192
Measure 287, staff 2 incomplete. Expected: 58/64; Found: 6662/5184
Measure 607, staff 2 incomplete. Expected: 5/4; Found: 4384/2592
Measure 624, staff 1 incomplete. Expected: 69/64; Found: 208/192
Measure 624, staff 2 incomplete. Expected: 69/64; Found: 208/192
Measure 627, staff 2 incomplete. Expected: 5/4; Found: 30256/15552
Measure 632, staff 2 incomplete. Expected: 15/16; Found: 24/24
Measure 649, staff 2 incomplete. Expected: 122/64; Found: 47266/15552
Measure 659, staff 2 incomplete. Expected: 11/8; Found: 1522/972
Measure 660, staff 2 incomplete. Expected: 6/4; Found: 45520/15552
Measure 663, staff 2 incomplete. Expected: 9/16; Found: 15/24
Measure 664, staff 2 incomplete. Expected: 3/16; Found: 3/12
Measure 1091, staff 1 incomplete. Expected: 29/64; Found: 12/24
But as I said above, there are more errors in the score. The ones above are measures where there is a difference in measure length between staff 1 and staff 2. If both are equally wrong (too long or too short) nothing is reported.
See attached the version saved with 3.6.2. Probably you can open it in MuS4.
Please excuse my statement from above: the score seems to be quite correct up to measure 150. So you have already done a lot of work :-).
If this file was created from musicxml, can you attach it too?
In reply to If this file was created… by ytsejam
I can only attach the compressed musicxml file with the extension mxl.
The forum does not allow file sizes over 4 MByte and the uncompressed version is about 7.5 MByte.
Can't you open my 3.6.2. version?
In reply to I can only attach the… by HildeK
I mean there is original musicxml file, which is probably generated by audiveris.
In reply to I mean there is original… by ytsejam
Ok, did I misunderstood you - I am not a native speaker?
I thought you want to get the xml file instead of my mscz from 3.6.2.
The *.mxl is a zipped *.xml which is the same as *.musicxml. All three file types can be opened with MuseScore. And it contains the mscx which is also a kind of musicxml (or probably the same).
As far as I know, you can attach only a few file types - including *.zip.
Try the musicxml, and if it doesn't work, zip it. This will also drastically reduce the file size of a musicxml file, so you won't hit the size limit.
In reply to Ok, did I misunderstood you … by HildeK
Sorry for confusing you. I'm not the author of this post. I asked him (not you) for original musicxml files, because there is metadata info about mxl and audiveris. And I wonder what kind of musicxml file can break musescore so hard on import.
In reply to Sorry for confusing you. I'm… by ytsejam
LOL.
Oh yeah, I actually confused you with the author. Sorry about that, I wasn't paying attention.
Thanks for the clarification.