"MS Songbook" misses crucial options as useful reader.
The great advantage of the "MS Songbook" app as reader is that you can transpose imported music. Especially for lead sheets (fake books) this is an optimal feature since you can search download and transpose on the spot. However there are several shortcomings:
1. An "octave changer" is needed for several transpositions.
2. Transpose should (default) be done with single sharps and flats.
3. A PDF export possibility to be able to use the benifits from readers like forScore/MobileSheets.
4. It should except an AirTurn Ped or alike.
5. Files should be importable by iTunes (iPad) or directory's (Androïd).
6. "Discover" searching should show A-Z order (at least optional).
Comments
If you look at https://musescore.com/groups/musescore-ios and/or https://musescore.com/groups/musescore-android, you'll find that at least 1 and 5 have been reuested there already and have been acknowledged by the developers. And 4 has been claimed to work ever since.
In reply to If you look at by Jojo-Schmitz
Yes and no,
@1 and @3 I did also asked for earlier myself, yes, Both are at the todo list.
About @2 and @6 I must have missed the earlier questions and acknowledgement, glad to hear more people did ask for it. I can't find the questions, guess it was asked for Androïd.
No, @4 has never worked for the iPad as acknowledge by lasconic look at:
https://musescore.org/en/node/73996, there is no ETA.
@5 I did ask for here: https://musescore.org/en/node/87651, no response whatsoever!
And all that is desperately needed, to really make this app fly, so summing them again won't harm I guess.
In reply to Yes and no, @1 and @3 I did by Robipad
Ah, OK, AirTurn works on Andoid only.
For 5 see https://musescore.com/groups/musescore-ios/discuss/1305016
I never claimed that 2 and 6 had been mentioned in either Group on MuseScore.com...
In reply to Ah, OK, AirTurn works on by Jojo-Schmitz
Sorry, about some misinterpretation by me.....! Btw. who is developing the Songbook?
In reply to Sorry, about some by Robipad
We are https://musescore.com/team We are also developing MuseScore.com and a large part of MuseScore helped by several individuals https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/graphs/contributors
All the items are in our todo list. 2. sounds like a bug though. We don't give ETA in general.
In reply to We are by [DELETED] 5
Great, thanks for the interesting graph. I've seen incidentally double sharp (or flat), but since you think it is a bug I wiil send a detailed sample next time I notice it.
In reply to We are by [DELETED] 5
I did check it but default the transposition is with double sharps (x), also for the chord symbols (##) which looks very odd to me. Also in MuseScore at the PC it is the default, but you can choose single sharps and flats.
This is valid for all the ones I tried. I attached one just try it. Doesn't seem a bug but a choice to me :) I use Ms Songbook at an iPad.
Since my Voyage was a 1.3 version I saved it as a 2.0.2 version but that doesn't change anything.
In reply to I did check it but default by Robipad
Attached the file after one note transposition from Ab to A in this example which looks odd to me! Please don't use double sharps or double flats in notes nor chords!
In reply to Attached the file after one by Robipad
Thanks for solving the transposition issue with the update from 7-7-2016. For me this is an important update which makes it at least more usable, but still a lot need to be done like an pdf export.