Adding title through command line usage of MuseScore
Hey there, I am using MuseScore quite a lot from the command line, because I generate .mid files programmatically and then I pass them to MuseScore to create a score. This works very well, see e.g. examples here: https://juliamusic.github.io/JuliaMusic_documentation.jl/dev/blog/drump…
I am very happy with everything so far, but I would really like to be able to somehow give a title to the score through the command line, so that it is possible to do e.g.:
MuseScore3 -n -title "That's a cool title" -o test.pdf test.mid
Is this already possible? If not, would you consider adding this?
Comments
Not yet.
The problem there is also where to stop; for you it's a title, then perhaps a subtitle, or composer, etc…
There is a pending fix to allow the effects of a plugin to become persistent when running/converting by command line. Perhaps you could use such a plugin as workaround (by writing your metadata such as the title to a temporary file then have a plugin that reads that temp file and applies it to the score).
Until that time, I don't see another way.
In reply to Not yet. The problem there… by jeetee
Hi,
thanks a lot for the swift reply. Yes you have a valid point for "where to stop".
But there seems to be a way to do what I want to do. For me it is totally fine to use such a plugin for a workaround, but I don't really know what you mean or how to create such a thing. If there is a tutorial on how to make a plugin that "adds a title" and use it from command line I'll happily take it without a second thought!
In reply to Hi, thanks a lot for the… by George Datseris
As I said, there is a fix pending, but not yet available (see https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/5609 ) that would allow for such a thing.
At this point in time, there is no such thing.