MuseScore for Chromebooks
As straightforward as it sounds. I am aware that there is a MuseScore app for the Google Play Store, however, this app only allows users to view, listen to and download scores. I believe a full version for Chromebooks would be advantageous to many people.
Chromebooks are especially useful for students; they're affordable and offer the essentials and more for school and education. They're a great alternative, as opposed to spending a substantial amount of money on a MacBook or a Windows laptop (which are both useful but offer too many features to be simply a school laptop). In this sense, this technology is almost exclusively designed for students. I suspect that a vast number of students (music majors in particular) would benefit greatly from the addition of MuseScore to ChromeOS.
I understand that the developers of MuseScore rely on the Pro feature and donations for revenue; I believe that the development of a ChromOS build for the software would be a worthy investment. Not only would more people become aware of the program and its capabilities, but MuseScore would also become a software more applicable than even most paid notation software.
Correct me if there is already a build, but I firmly believe that MuseScore as a whole would benefit greatly from the addition to ChromeOS.
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See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/install-chromebook
I totally agree. Chromebooks are increasing in popularity worldwide and especially with students. A web based html5 version of musescore would work on any platform. At the moment one is limited to version 2 on the linux shell within ChromeOs and I am sorry to say Musescore do not make even the saved files of version 3 backwards compatible with version 2.
In reply to I totally agree. Chromebooks… by [DELETED] 71557
As far as I know the (Linux) AppImages should work on the latest ChromeOS?
In reply to As far as I know the (Linux)… by Jojo-Schmitz
Not really. AppImages can't really be executed on the OS. DEB files are the only Linux files I've been able to get working on ChromOS.
I'm doing this via flatpak: https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.musescore.MuseScore
In reply to I'm doing this via flatpak:… by jonarnold
Thanks, jonarnoldmusic. Can you confirm, please, that you are doing this from a chromebook (or pixelbook) running crostini Linux in the stable distribution? Thanks
In reply to Thanks, jonarnoldmusic. Can… by [DELETED] 71557
Yup! Acer R11 (CYAN) Chromebook on Version 75.0.3770.24 (Official Build) beta (64-bit).
uname -a: Linux penguin 4.19.34-04403-g55d6b8d88582 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Apr 18 09:57:15 PDT 2019 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Sound works. I haven't tried to setup MIDI.
I'm currently running an AppImage on a Chromebook. Worked fine out of the box but I'm still tweaking things to run better - setting up a shelf icon, file associations, seamless access to my Google Drive folders, etc. I have most of it going pretty well, but am interesting in discussing other people's experiences, to see what I can learn from you, what I can share of what I've learned, etc.