Right way to import -musicxml file from sibelius to musescore

• Aug 23, 2023 - 19:58

Hello there!

I a thinking about moving from sibelius to musescore but before making the big step, i decided to give MS a try. I exported a sibelius sheet to a .musicxml file and imported it in musescore and.. it is a nightmare.

Lots of the symbols are gone, the bending ones aren't here, the bass staff was invisible (Why??) and everything was definitely in the wrong place.

I really wanna to use MS forever but this is an enormous bottle neck to me.

Any suggestion?

I upload the sibelius file and the musescore import of the musicxml

Attachment	Size
Into The Storm MS.pdf	108.86 KB
Into The Storm.pdf	106.99 KB

Comments

Jojo-Schmitz

• Aug 23, 2023 - 21:04

No, you uploaded 2 PDF files.

Try the Dolet plugin for Sibelius to export to MusicXML

thedarkalchemist

• Aug 23, 2023 - 21:12

The MS file si the pdf exported from musescore

Jojo-Schmitz

• Aug 23, 2023 - 21:58

It still is just a PDF.

Please share the Sibelius MusicXML file

thedarkalchemist

• Aug 24, 2023 - 20:32

here it is the xml file

Attachment	Size
Into The Storm.musicxml	340.41 KB

Jojo-Schmitz

• Aug 25, 2023 - 09:39

   <software>Sibelius 23.6.0</software>
   <software>Direct export, not from Dolet</software>
   <encoding-description>Sibelius / MusicXML 3.0</encoding-description>

As mentioned, try the Dolet plugin, it is claimed to result in much better export, the 'normal' export is said to work good only between Sibelius versions