How do I get audio format files out?
I am running version 1.1 under windows XP, but had the same problem with earlier versions. File > Save As produces no output when the choices .WAV, .FLAC or .OGG are made. Not that the output is bad in some way, just that there is no file output.
Thanks,
Alan Moore
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Dumb question - but how are you checking to see if the output happened? Audio files wouldn't show up in any of MuseScore's input dialogs, since they are not valid files for importing. So you''d need to check using Explorer. And you do have to check to be sure the Save As is gong to the folder you are expecting to - it doesn't necessarily default to the same folder as the original file.
In reply to Dumb question - but how are by Marc Sabatella
To check for output, I look for a new file in the place I selected in the "Save as..." dialog. Musescore files appear there, midi files, .pdg files, but no .wav, .flac, or .ogg. Curiously, these do show up in the "recent documents" listing, but clicking on them there suggests that they don't exist. In unix or linux parlance, I'd say they'd been saved to \dev\null.
In reply to To check for output, I look by Alan Moore
Just a thought.
Do you remove the .mscz file extension when saving?
If not, it will be saved as an .mscz.wav file which may confuse Windows, particularly if you have "Hide extensions for known filetypes" enabled.
In reply to Just a thought. Do you remove by ChurchOrganist
I've tried this both ways, removing the proposed extension, and leaving it. I have never allowed windows to hide any information from me, on the off chance that I might want it (I grew up with command-line systems). Testing this feature, I created an empty folder, put a musescore (.mscz) file in it, opened it in musescore, and tried to save as. Neither windows explorer nor the DOS dir or attrib commands show any other file but the original .mscz in this directory. The filenames appear in the windows documents menu, but an attempt to open the files, or even to get details about them, just returns a "file not found" error.
In reply to I've tried this both ways, by Alan Moore
This is a strange one!
My Windows XP SP3 system saves WAVs quite happily in the directpry where MuseScore 1.1 has been told to put them.
I've not tried MP3 or FLAC - could be there are codec issues there?
Will report back when I've tried to save an MP3.
In reply to This is a strange one! My by ChurchOrganist
Hehe - MP3 not available
But just tried saving FLAC and OGG amd both save perfectly OK
Could be there is a settings issue specific to your system?
In reply to To check for output, I look by Alan Moore
Yes, but as I said, are you looking from within Museacore? MuseScore's dialogs won't generally show them, since they are not supported input formats. But Explorer should. The only time I've seen any discrepancy whee a file that should have been saved wasn't was when I tried saving directly to a read-only folder. It got me into some weird state where some dialogs would show the file, others wouldn't. It cleared up after a reoot. I'm pretty sure that was some sort of Windows caching thing, not a problem with MuseScore itself.
About the incorrect extension, see this and this .