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A question often asked is when MuseScore will be ready for a 1.0 release. While it's hard if not impossible for a young open source project such as MuseScore to set deadlines, the answer so far was that MuseScore needs to complete a couple of things first. One of these things was the ability to run MuseScore on Mac which became possible this past summer, another one was to create a house style and artwork for MuseScore. Today, the very

A plugin to import ABC (v1.6) into MuseScore 0.9.5 is now available in the source code repository.

Installation instruction

• Download the plugin by right clicking this link and save target as.
• Save the file in the plugins directory of MuseScore. On Windows it's c:\Program Files\MuseScore\plugins
• if you don't run Windows or if you didn't install MuseScore in the default location, edit the plugin file and change the "program" variable to the path to MuseScore executable.
• Restart or start MuseScore

MuseScore for Mac OS X is out of beta since the release of MuseScore 0.9.5 on the August 15th 2009. The feature list for Mac OS X is the exactly same as for Windows and includes Midi input, output to wav, flac, ogg and more. Download link: http://www.musescore.org/download/musescore.dmg

MuseScore is available for PPC & Intel as an Universal Binaries package. It has been tested successfully on MacOSX 10.4 and 10.5. In case you successfully tested MuseScore on Snow Leopard, don't

• With the release of MuseScore 0.9.5 comes the first stable release for Mac OS X 10.4 and above
• Create sound files of your scores via File → Save As... (WAV, OGG, and FLAC)
• Use and create plugins
• Know the pitch range of instruments (MuseScore marks out-of-range notes for amateurs in yellow and professionals in red)
  [inline:pitch-range.png=Pitch range of piccolo]
• Double-click to open a MuseScore file
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• Over 30 crashes fixed

Playback

• Dynamic markings affect playback.

MuseScore 0.9.5 has been released and is available for download at http://musescore.org

The most important news is that MuseScore is now available for Mac OS X. This makes MuseScore the ideal music notation software for music schools since it's available for all major platforms and translated in 19 languages with Arabic as the most recent contribution.

But let's not forget that MuseScore 0.9.5 is packed with many new features and improvements, added over the past 7 months by the

Release candidate 2 for MuseScore 0.9.5 has been released. Besides several bug fixes, you may expect several updated translations:

• French by JLWaltener
• Norwegian by perholje
• Arabic by HosAdeeb
• Dutch by Jaap Plaisier
• Chinese Traditional Taiwan by benice
• Italian by antoniomarchionne
• Galician by Xosé
• German by werner
• English (US) by Raymond May Jr.
• Russian by alexandre
• Danish by mortenpoulsen

Download

• Windows XP & Vista
• Mac OS X 10.4 and above

As usual, backup your work, uninstall MuseScore RC1 and install

The MuseScore 0.9.5 release candidates are available for download. Read the release notes to find out what is new in this release!

Download

• Windows XP & Vista
• Mac OS X 10.4 and above

Before installing, backup your scores and uninstall MuseScore 0.9.4. In case you encounter issues or you wish to report to bug, don't hesitate to leave a message in the forum.

Translation status

First of all, we need translation of the 0.9.5 release notes. In

The MuseScore project has made yet another step forward with the release of a beta version for Mac OS X. It's available for download and has been successfully tested by several users on Mac Intel 10.4 & 10.5 as well as G4 10.4. More feedback for other platforms is very welcome as a comment on this post.

Nicolas Froment, aka Lasconic, has created this beta release, 3 months after Joachim Ganseman delivered the first alpha release. Since that

If you are a Windows user and want to help with code development you can now build MuseScore on Windows. This makes development more convenient for the many people that use Windows on a daily basis. In the past you had to use Linux to create Windows builds of MuseScore. Lasconic wrote instructions in early April and others have managed to build on Windows since then.

Mateusz Czaplinski was the first to build MuseScore on Windows. In January 2009 he

Joachim Ganseman released the first MuseScore alpha for Mac. Quote from Joachims post on the developers mailing list:

I've compiled a first MuseScore for Mac version and put it available for download. A few very important notes however:

• Requirements are Mac OSX 10.4 or higher, and a G4 processor or higher or an Intel processor. It is compiled as universal binary (32-bit) and tested to run on a G4 10.4 system and an Intel 10.5
  system.
• It is