Can not open a MS4 saved file, with MS3

• Feb 10, 2023 - 02:45

When I save a file with MS 4
Then try to re-open with MS 3 ... it fails to open, so I have to click out, then can Only open wit 4.

(I sadly prefer MS 3 ... hope there might be a work around?)

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• Feb 10, 2023 - 04:46

so I downloaded the "plug-in"
I am the worst at these plug-ins
I tried to open it, no luck of course
I clicked "open with" and stupidly tried notepad to open it
I also tried to "drag and drop" into miusescore 4 - I just can not seem to understand the plug-in way
they do not seem to be executable files?
nor do they open with typical software?
any way to rename the QML file so it can be opened,
or is there a way to "upload" it?

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• Feb 10, 2023 - 05:04

here is a difficult work around,
the file opens fine with 4
so I export it as an XML file to my desktop
this XML file opens fine with MS3.
I then have to load Style, then make 30 little edits that were lost in the export ... oh well
LOVE musescore, but this MS4 has cost me a lot of time - hope MS 3 stays around forever!

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• Feb 10, 2023 - 05:38

Come to think of it, forget the plugin. A better way is with 7-Zip. download that and you can extract a file that will open with MS3.Right click on the file and select open with MS3 Keep these files in a different folder until you have your files back.
Sorry your experience with MS4 was not good. I actually prefer it.

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• Feb 10, 2023 - 06:12

lots of new things with MS4 for sure,
just a few things:
1) when I move a chord change ... it's super loud!
as in ba-ba-ba-ba-ba screaming / yelling at me.
(it's a 2x of the normal volume of chord changes!)

2) to "drag a note left or right"
(with MS3 I can double click on the note, then arrow the note left or right to correct spacing (with MS4 I have to double click ont he note, then if the mouse slightly goes up or down, there is no sideways shifting of my target note, instead it goes up or down in pitch, but in the same location side to side, then I repeat, trying as many as 10 times, before I somehow get the perfect double click, then drag ... bad.

3) the rectangle area around the Title of my chart is a bermuda triangle. with 3, I could have some notes to the right of the Song Title, such as the tempo, the concert key, the vamp intro, etc. and in 3 you can of course edit this. sadly in 4 ... you can not change anything inside the 1" by 8" rectangle at the top of the page ... so I have to shrink the top title, then I can edit my text, then I re-size the song title back.

these were the first few headaches I got after just a few hours trying it. then of course I can not re-open files in 3 (that were saved in 4 (my top post!)

but seriously, much Love to musescore, and I know 4 has great video or something (?) more modern, and sounds like a better platform. hope it gets the kinks fixed - please check my 1,2,3 notes, hopefully an easy fix :-)

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• Feb 10, 2023 - 06:54

Yuck - just spent a couple hours exporting files, and noticed a few of the chord changes has been "simplified" also (a majority of jazz writers ... write a CMaj7 chord as C-triangle. Well exporting to MusicXML, deleted the triangles. And it changed a G7s4 into a G7. Maybe more, I will keep working on this.

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• Feb 10, 2023 - 06:17

thanks brother jojo! that was my workaround. and it works!
(MS3 can open the MusicXML file fine ... has the basic data, I just have to "load style" then tweak the chords spacing to get to my liking ... maybe 30 mouse clicks, and dragging a few notes - it worked!
Love all you do - check out my friendly 3 suggestions above, maybe a help?

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