Fretboard diagrams are not exported to MusicXML

• Apr 9, 2020 - 15:32
Reported version
4.0
Type
Functional
Frequency
Once
Severity
S3 - Major
Reproducibility
Always
Status
closed
Regression
Yes
Workaround
Yes
Project
MuseScore

Chord diagrams added in musescore are not exported to musicxml files.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Create new Musescore file.
2) Select instruments.
3) Add one acoustic guitar stave and one linked tab stave.
4) Using the advanced palette, add any chord diagram.
5) Export the file to musicxml.
6) No chord diagram is in the file (I tried visualizing the file using Soundslice's mxl viewer and manually inspecting the xml content).

Note : there is an old related issue (#95886) where it is said that diagrams with a chord symbol should be exported without problem. This is not the case here as I made sure that there was a chord symbol is linked to the diagram here.

Problem reproduced with MuseScoreNightly-202004091016-master-13a302f-x86_64.AppImage

Attachment Size
test.mscz 3.23 KB
test.mxl 1.49 KB

Comments

• Apr 13, 2020 - 17:02

After trying with the master version that I built myself, I got the following message displayed on the console upon exporting to musicxml:

> mscore/exportxml.cpp:Ms::annotations: seg 0x556e78e8c070 found fretboard diagram 0x556e7a249480 w/o harmony: cannot write

However, if I use the object debugger on the diagram, I can see that FretDiagram object does have a Harmony child in the hierarchy.

Also, I think this issue should be linked to #270643.

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• Apr 13, 2020 - 17:35
Workaround No ⇒ Yes

Okay, with new tests, I get the following. If I can create a Harmony element and a Diagram element side by side in the hierarchy, the chord diagram gets exported in musicxml.

To do that, I have to:
- create a chord symbol (click a note then ctrl+k);
- add a chord diagram;
- remove the chord symbol associated with the diagram.

If I try to add a chord symbol while a diagram already exists, the new Harmony element is always added as a child to the Diagram element.

That means the problem has a workaround but it's cumbersome and inconveniant.

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• Mar 18, 2023 - 01:16
Regression No ⇒ Yes
Status closed ⇒ active
Reported version 3.x-dev ⇒ 4.0
Workaround Yes ⇒ No

This is broken again in 4.02.

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• Mar 18, 2023 - 10:59
Regression Yes ⇒ No
Status active ⇒ closed
Reported version 4.0 ⇒ 3.x-dev
Workaround No ⇒ Yes

Then open an issue in GitHub and let this here RIP

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• Jun 23, 2024 - 21:32
Status PR created ⇒ fixed

Fixed in branch master, commit 1dbe3675a3

_Fix #303623, GH#16902: Fix multiple issues with chord diagrams in MusicXML export

Port/rebase of @thibault's #5958

For some reason that PR's test files (testHarmony6.mscx, testHarmony6_ref.xml) were already in master (as testHarmony7.mscx, testHarmony7_ref.xml), but not used in the unit tests._

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Fix version
3.6.0