How to create an script (batch) or plug-in toMuseScore 2.0.2

Ola Juan,

I'm afraid it is not very easy/simple, however it is not something impossible. I have written couple of .awk / .sed scripts to automate similar tasks but they require AWK (or GAWK) and SED to be present on your computer. You'd need to download and unpack/install them to your computer and have a little bit of research what they can do. Also I have used my scripts only on Windows based computers though they should work fine on Linux as well (as unix is a native home of those tools).

Internally a MuseScore file (uncompressed *.mscx) is a XML file which in turn is a plain text file and it can be (carefully) manipulated in any text editor or by any tool capable of manipulating text files, e.g. using search/replace, regular expressions etc.

I have attached a couple of scripts you may find useful as your starting point.

I have tried to automate similar task and pick the same (midi) instruments for all hymns/scores and set volume levels and panning of instruments (balance left-right) to pre-defined, consistent values. See mixer*.* attachments.

Also I tried to automate updating some of the score "information" metatags - see revision*.* attachments.

I also written a very simple plugin to update the score metatags from title, composer & lyricist - see *.qml

And most importantly backup your scores before applying anything.

Have fun and report back if you get something useful working,
Cheers, Miro