musescore / musescore/MuseScore

Built in audio player for transcribing music

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Description

Your idea

Have a built in audio player for transcribing music. The audio player will play the reference audio.

Problem to be solved

Makes it easier to transcribe (not compose) music by removing the need to switch between MuseScore and an external music player.

Prior art

No response

Additional context

There might be room for some additional features to be added (eg, aligning specific points of the audio to specific beats to the sheet music, either by BPM, or by manually added key points for music that don't have a consistent tempo), but I'd recommend a very low priority for that.

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Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by surveying MuseScore’s existing playback and transcription workflow, then establish a narrowly scoped player and acceptance criteria; audio-to-score alignment and other additional features are explicitly optional.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
desktop
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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