[llui85]

MuseScore has two separate components:

- Musescore.com is run by Muse Group, formerly Ultimate Guitar. This is the sheet music sharing site which has a few controversies with downloading user scores, although this has improved a bit recently.

- Musescore.org is the GPLv3 notation software which they've announced the release for.

Muse is very good at keeping these two parts separated from each other. For example, the new "Muse Sounds" is installed via the closed-source "Muse Hub" (which economically makes sense as providing high-quality samples would be a fruitful business opportunity in the future) through a shared library.

Personally I think that this is a nice balance between maintaining the open-source software and providing features that practically only work with commercial backing - the reason that this could occur so quickly is because it reuses the playback engine and samples from StaffPad (https://www.staffpad.net), one of Muse's acquisitions.

[skybrian]

The confusing bit is that the MuseScore mobile apps come from musescore.com. If you ask questions about the mobile apps on musescore.org then someone will likely treat you rudely, from the Q&A I've seen.

I think they've brought it on themselves by using the same name for different things. If they used distinct names (like they did for the new stuff) then they wouldn't be in this mess.

[Jonny32]

The MuseScore mobile app is a complete piece of shit. It's obviously under the hapless MuseScore.com team because it focuses on the same stuff.

I'd love if that team up-skilled in the same way the FOSS app has.

[prvc]

Any privacy caveats to installing Muse Hub?

[junon]

The owners tried to put Google Analytics into Audacity when they took it over. I wouldn't touch either project if you care about privacy.