Anomalous(?) behaviour opening musicxml file
I have an xmlfile that I have generated programmatically. From the note point of view it consists of 5-note chords e.g. :
G408half1C508half1E508half1E408half5C408half6G408half1C508half1E508half1E408half5C408half6
Because of information in the input file, which is an xmlfile exported from MuseScore4, there are 3 voices 1, 5 and 6. When I try to open it with MuseSCore4 I get a message that the file is corrupted with details like : Incomplete bar: Full score, bar 1, stave 1. Found: 4/2. Expected: 1/1.
If I edit the file so that all voices are 1, then MuseScore can open the file and it is displayed as I would like, but obviously all notes are Voice 1 which is not quite what I want.
If edit the file so that all the non-voice-1 voices are changed to 2, then I get the same errors opening with MuseSCore4. If I open the file with e.g. online soundslice all versions of the file open successfully.
In response to the error message I tried adding some explicit attributes like time, but it makes no difference.
Is this behaviour a bug or a known limitation of MuseSCore4?
In the appended files, the first is the file with multiple voices and the second where all the voices have be changed to 1
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| transformed_musicxmlfile.xml | 58.35 KB |
| transformed_musicxmlfile56to1afterrerunV27.xml | 58.35 KB |
Comments
The text after the opening "e.g.", was xml mark-up text that has been "re-interpreted". To see what was there look at measure 1 of the first file
I opened transformed_musicxmlfile56to1afterrerunV27.xml in MU3.6 despite error messages.
Via Tools/explode you can separate the notes of the chords. Then you can select any of these lines and change their voice (MU has only 4 voices EDIT: per staff).I did this for the second line. After implode you have the notes on separate voices (see attached)
Prelude_C_Major.mscz
In reply to I opened transformed… by elsewhere
Thanks for taking the trouble to look at this. I might not have been clear, but the file you opened is the one in which there are only voice 1 elements. In MU4 this opens without errors. The other file contains voice 5 and 6 which, as I say was exported from MuseSCore and whose origin, for me, was the MuseScore web site. Given that, I find it surprising that MU cannot open my original "transformed" xml when there are voice 5 or 6 elements. However, in your response you've introduced me to explode and implode which I was able to use to achieve what I wanted without too much trouble. So, for the moment I'm satisfied with that as a solution, so thanks for your insight and time.
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Seems MuseScore 4.4.4 (which apparently created transformed_musicxmlfile.xml) creates corrupt scores on import. Not good, best report on GitHub. Along with the mscz that xml stems from...