MuseScore 2.0 Released

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @09:27AM from the onward-and-upward dept.

rDouglass writes: MuseScore, the open source desktop application for music notation, has released version 2.0 for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. This release represents the culmination of four years of development, including technical contributions from over 400 people. In addition to a completely new UI, top features include linked parts (good for pieces with many instruments), guitar tablature, flexible chord symbols, and fret diagrams. The program integrates directly with the MuseScore.com online library of scores, and music written with the application can be displayed and played using the MuseScore mobile app.

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Re:How is this front page worthy? by BenFranske · 2015-03-24 09:46 · Score: 4, Interesting

I don't know that it's really any more obscure than 3D modelling, desktop publishing, or any of the many other projects that get discussed on /. For those of us who work or dabble in music areas and appreciate being able FOSS MuseScore is really amazing software. It's also important for the education market where commercial software in the same genre can be very expensive. 1.x definitely has it's quirks but it's amazing (and important) to be able to at least compete on a basic level with Finale and Sibelius. I'm looking forward to trying out 2.0!