MuseScore VS muse

Compare MuseScore vs muse and see what are their differences.

MuseScore

MuseScore is an open source and free music notation software. For support, contribution, bug reports, visit MuseScore.org. Fork and make pull requests! (by musescore)

muse

MusE is a digital audio workstation with support for both Audio and MIDI (by muse-sequencer)
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MuseScore muse
146 13
11,364 614
2.0% 2.0%
10.0 7.7
4 days ago 24 days ago
C++ C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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MuseScore

Posts with mentions or reviews of MuseScore. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-30.
  • How do you use a chromebook?
    2 projects | /r/chromeos | 30 Apr 2023
    Not that I need to prove anything, but for anyone curious, here's a composition I created using the music notation software I help develop and support on my Chromebook. If you hit the play button on the composition, you'll hear the multitrack recording I created on my Chromebook as well, with my students singing the various parts. The piece was created for my online course teaching counterpoint, developed completely on my Chromebook. Here is a video from my most recent - the video is done from the Chromebook and the software managing the multicamera layout and screen share is software I developed on my Chromebook. And here is the online community I manage from my Chromebook.
  • Crash when attempting to place a note in place of, or simply select, a particular rest.
    2 projects | /r/Musescore | 19 Apr 2023
    Sorry to hear you're having trouble! Definitely, we'd need the MSCZ file to be able to investigate. Normally we ask that people first post to the official Support forum on musescore.org to get confirmation before opening an issue on GitHub to report a bug formally, but it sounds like you've got things pretty well figured out in terms of having precise steps to reproduce the crash reliably, so I would encourage you to just go straight to the issue tracker on GitHub - https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/issues
  • My Chromebook can't open MuseScore anymore since the last update
    2 projects | /r/Musescore | 19 Apr 2023
    If you installed some way other by downloading the AppImage from musescore.org and running it with the "install" option, you should remove whatever version you have now - third party builds are often problematic - and get the official version.
    2 projects | /r/Musescore | 19 Apr 2023
    I install it trought commands and not from musescore.org because I have a 32 bits Chromebook. So I don't know what to do. The problem is that I can remove it. It doesn't show me the "delete" button. Even trought Terminal.
  • MuseScore deployment in JAMF on MacOS
    3 projects | /r/jamf | 2 Feb 2023
    Follow the GitHub directions and you can find the link needed to build the label as: https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/releases/download/v4.0.1/MuseScore-4.0.1.230121751.dmg
  • How come Musescore 4 isn’t a GPL violation, and is their mixed-proprietary model a long-term threat to other GPL software?
    3 projects | /r/opensource | 21 Jan 2023
    According to this thread, MuseSounds isn’t even a separate process, but it’s loaded dynamically. That settles the shared-memory discussion since they operate as one program in a shared address space.
    3 projects | /r/opensource | 21 Jan 2023
    I looked into the source, and from my perspective it looks like the only purpose of the dll API (it's inside libhandler.h) is to avoid releasing the source. There is only ONE implementation, the dll is ONLY used by Muse Score, and there is also no documentation on this API... The lib, MuseSamplerCoreLib.dll, is installed to Windows/System32. The sample format is proprietary I guess, but internally uses the open source opus codec (so sample data can be extracted by just using opusdec.exe from opus-codec.org) Here is some feedback from the team on the issue: https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/issues/15706 https://musescore.org/en/node/340466
    3 projects | /r/opensource | 21 Jan 2023
    Under the GPL they don't owe you specifications. Under the GPL they don't owe you documentation. Under the GPL they don't owe you a build how-to or integration instructions. Per the GPL, all they owe you is the code, and that's here. If the interface you are talking about is in that repo, then they've met their obligation. The GPL doesn't say they have to make it easy to use their interface or explain what it does, it says they owe you the code that implements it.
  • Show HN: PipeScore – FOSS Bagpipe Notation Software
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jan 2023
    I've been working on some version of this since May 2019. It is a web app that allows writing out music for the Highland bagpipe.

    While it uses the same notation as normal music, bagpipe music tends to have a greater focus on gracenotes (embellishments). Most music software does not deal with this very well (e.g. MuseScore just displays a list of every single possible embellishment, of which there are hundreds [1]). PipeScore instead takes advantage of the fact that the form of many embellishments is dependent on the notes adjacent to it, allowing it to reduce the number of options down to just 13.

    [1] https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/blob/2b428c00c9df65c3...

  • Making the ultimate-guitar.com web player easier to practice with
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Jan 2023
    musecore is opensource and supports tab playing and editing alongside notation: https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore

muse

Posts with mentions or reviews of muse. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-27.
  • My dual boot with windows 11 won't boot past intro screen or even into bios after failed attempt to fix frequent Kerbal panic.
    2 projects | /r/debian | 27 May 2023
    Give a try to Ardour, LMMS, MusE and Rosegarden.
  • Creating hardcore
    2 projects | /r/gabber | 21 Jul 2022
    I’m learning MuSe right now which is an open source DAW (digital audio workstation). MuSe
  • What apps would you like to see ported to Qt/KDE?
    14 projects | /r/kde | 17 Apr 2022
    For just At (no KDE) there's MusE so it sort of did happen. Although it's not one of the "big name" DAWs with tons of development effort, so you may end up missing niceties that the competition provides.
  • fl studio 20?
    3 projects | /r/software | 10 Nov 2021
    You won't find help in this sub with piracy (try /r/piracy for that). There are a number of free alternatives though if you are looking to get your start though. Muse Ardour LMMS
  • Open source linux daws
    2 projects | /r/linuxaudio | 4 Nov 2021
    I"m also looking for DAW. There is MusE also. But nobody says about it. Why?
    2 projects | /r/linuxaudio | 4 Nov 2021
    There is also musE sequencer which is quite nice, especially for MIDI editing: https://muse-sequencer.github.io/
  • MusE 4.0 released
    2 projects | /r/linuxaudio | 28 May 2021
    Downloads and changelog: https://github.com/muse-sequencer/muse/releases/tag/4.0.0
    2 projects | /r/linuxaudio | 28 May 2021
    Homepage: https://muse-sequencer.github.io/
  • MuseScore 3.6
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jan 2021
    I'm actually a little foggy on this -- is this completely unrelated to the free software MusE DAW (https://github.com/muse-sequencer/muse), that also includes a sheet music editor as well?

    I'm happy to see that the MusE DAW seems also to have resumed development after a very long hiatus / dry-spell. While not as feature-filled in most respects as bigger free software DAWs like Ardour, it has a more conventional piano roll interface with a few QoL features, which is why I preferred it for some time before switching to Ardour and getting over Ardour's sub-standard piano-roll.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing MuseScore and muse you can also consider the following projects:

ardour - Mirror of Ardour Source Code

lmms - Cross-platform music production software

LibreScore - The open source (GPLv3), serverless (IPFS-based), offline-first, and totally free alternative to musescore.com

alda - A music programming language for musicians. :notes:

overtone - Collaborative Programmable Music

react-native-windows - A framework for building native Windows apps with React.

csound - Main repository for Csound

VeeSeeVSTRack - Open-source virtual modular synthesizer

bevy_egui - 🇺🇦 Please support the Ukrainian army: https://www.comebackalive.in.ua/donate

tabulator-qt - An editor tool for documents with character-separated values written in Qt for C++.

QSimpleCrypto - Small C++ cryptography library based on Qt and OpenSSL.