


Open Source Solutions To Music Notation File Formats Moving a document from one platform to the other using MusicXML will get the notes moved, but other annotations often are misplaced or left out altogether.Â
OPEN SIBELIUS FILES ONLINE HOW TO
I recently received a question asking how to move music back and forth from Sibelius to Finale. I too have this problem quite often as almost all of my old lessons and beginner music that I wrote out for my classes was done in Sibelius but now I would also like to be able to use it with SmartMusic (which requires Finale to create custom arrangements). Since neither company wants to allow the other to begin reading and writing their own proprietary formats, the grand dream of one day having an open, comprehensive transportable music file format is probably never going to happen. For now there is a format called MusicXML but it leaves a lot to be desired when working with complex scores.
