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by pervycreeper 3761 days ago
So, I managed to import one of my compositions here: https://flat.io/score/56d88e7af9e84f623ce60fb0-sonata If anyone wants to test out collaborative editing, be my guest.

Some thoughts: the typography is rudimentary (lots of spacing issues and collisions), the number of notational features in lacking (can't seem to find how to add a turn or Italian tempo markings, for starters). Note entry is inconvenient (although I didn't try using MIDI), not so happy about the TOS as far as rights to your own work is concerned. I also had a number of failed attempts at xml importing, not sure what eventually led to a sucess. The interface is also pretty simple and intuitive to use, especially compared to native apps.
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rannoup 3761 days ago
Hey, thanks for the thoughts.

Indeed there are still many notations lacking. We're doing our best to ship as fast as we can. Regarding the import, music notation softwares are not sticking to the standard and it's a real pain to be "compliant" with them... :( Yours finally worked due to a hot fix we did ;)

Regarding the ToS, we didn't think them this way but I completely understand that it can be a concern. Will update them within the upcoming days.

Best,

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adrianh 3761 days ago
Give it a shot in the free Soundslice MusicXML viewer -- our importer is pretty damn good, despite the pretty horrific/inconsistent implementations of MusicXML export out there.

https://www.soundslice.com/musicxml-viewer/

If you like what you can see, you can create a Soundslice account to save your scores and sync them with audio/video for educational purposes.

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