How to export lyrics to text file

• Apr 13, 2018 - 20:27

Hello everyone
I would like to copy/extract the lyrics from the attached file to a text file. But when I use Tools > Copy lyrics to clipboard, I get lots of words from the lyrics but the words aren't in the right order (and some of the words aren't even there). I'm not looking forward to retyping the lyrics by hand. Is there a surefire way to extract the lyrics from the file?
I know that I can probably get very similar lyrics by just Googling for them, but I would prefer to get this file's specific version of the lyrics directly.
Thanks
Samuel

Attachment	Size
Abschied vom Walde (2 bars) (stem).mscz	22.4 KB

Comments

Shoichi

• Apr 13, 2018 - 20:32

Lyrics are in Voice1 and 2?

Attachment	Size
ugcheleuce.txt	1.04 KB

ugcheleuce

• Apr 13, 2018 - 22:12

Aah, yes, I did not realise that that would make a difference. The first nine measures have the lyrics on voice 2 and the rest have them on voice 1. I now see that when I use Tools > Copy lyrics to clipboard it only copies voice 1's lyrics, so the lyrics appear to start in mid-sentence. How did you manage to copy voice 2's lyrics?

Shoichi

• Apr 13, 2018 - 22:22

I first exchanged Voices 1-2 (where necessary) then I used Tools to copy lyrics.

dashard

• Jun 2, 2022 - 04:51

Sorry to necro-post. My issue is parallel but not quite this.

I have three verses and no matter what I attempt I only get three copies of verse 1. Can't figure what I'm doing wrong or if it's a bug.

Thoughts?

Attachment	Size
When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder.mscz	48.91 KB

Shoichi

• Jun 2, 2022 - 06:10

If I understand what you mean:
Right click on a syllable of verse 1, Select->More->choose verse;
Tools/Copy lyrics to clipboard.

Jojo-Schmitz

• Jun 2, 2022 - 08:05

That score stems from MuseScore 2.1.0, this is very old and outdated, tha last 2.x was 2.3.2, and the last 3.x is 3.6.2, so update to those, even if this might be unrelated to the issue at hand here

See also #330017: "Copy lyrics to clipboard" drops syllables if there is none at that spot in the previous verse, which does mention the lack of copying lyrics from all voices

dashard

• Jun 2, 2022 - 17:13

I'm not sure where that info is coming from. This was created and edited in v3.6.2.548020600

But I also determined on closer inspection that all three verses were copied onto one line… three times. Since the line was exceedingly long (line wraps off in my code editor) I only saw the first verse. The others were there, just not separated by a return/newline. All good. Just required some cleanup.

Thanks.