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The contents of this page were last updated on 2007/08/01. Many things may have changed in the meanwhile.

The goal of this page is the following:

  • suppose that I find a musical sheet I like on cpdl, but there is an error and I don't own the program that created it
  • suppose that I'm uploading a sheet to cpdl and I would like to put it in a format that most musical typesetting programs could read
  • suppose that I'm sending a friend a sheet I wrote, but we use different programs, and I want to be sure he can read it…

…then I will need to know which programs can read/write which formats…

Programs-formats compatibilities table (by software)

#NameOperating systemLicenseNative formatCan readCan write
1 Canorus GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac OS X Free, GPL ? ? ?
2 Denemo GNU/Linux Free, GPL Denemo (.denemo, .dnm) Denemo, MIDI Denemo, Lilypond, ABC, jtf, Csound
3 Encore Windows (98, ME, 2000, XP), Mac OS (9.x, X > 10.2) 129.99 €, Proprietary Encore (.enc) ? ?
4 Finale Windows, Mac OS X 600 $, Proprietary Finale (.mus) .mus (not newer than available Finale version), .etf, MusicXML, Midi 0 + 1 .mus, MusicXML, MIDI 0 + 1
5 Harmony Assistant Windows, Mac OS X Power PC, Mac OS X Intel, Mac OS Old versions 70 € or 70 USD, Proprietary Myriad .mus (different from Finale .mus) and .myr MIDI type 0 and 1 (.mid), MIDI Karaoke (.mid, .kar), Rich MIDI Tablature File - RMTF (.mid), Creative Music File -CMF (.cmf), Finale versions 1993 to 2006 (.mus, .etf), Encore (.enc), Rhapsody (.rhp), MusicTime (.mus), NoteWorthy Composer versions : 1.3 to 2.0 (.nwc), GuitarPro (.gtp, .gp3, .gp4), Tabledit version 2.0 (1999) and up (.tef), Band In a Box Style (.sty), Yamaha Style (.sty), Soundtracker MOD (.mod), Scream Tracker S3M (.s3m), MusicXML (.xml), ABC (.abc), Tablature text file (.tab) MIDI type 0 and 1 (.mid), MIDI Karaoke (.mid, .kar), Rich MIDI Tablature File - RMTF (.mid), Creative Music File -CMF (.cmf), MusicXML (.xml), ABC (.abc), Tablature text file (.tab)
6 Lilypond GNU/Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, MacOS X Free, GPL Lilypond (.ly) only native format, but includes converters: abc2ly (from abc ASCII format), etf2ly (from Finale format), midi2ly (from MIDI format), mup2ly (from Arkkra Enterprises Music Publisher format), musicxml2ly (from MusicXML format) MIDI
7 Melody Assistant Windows, Mac OS X Power PC, Mac OS X Intel, Mac OS Old versions 20 € or 20 USD, Shareware Myriad .mus (different from Finale .mus) and .myr MIDI type 0 and 1 (.mid), MIDI Karaoke (.mid, .kar), Rich MIDI Tablature File - RMTF (.mid), Creative Music File -CMF (.cmf), Soundtracker MOD (.mod), Scream Tracker S3M (.s3m), ABC (.abc), Tablature text file (.tab) MIDI type 0 and 1 (.mid), MIDI Karaoke (.mid, .kar), Rich MIDI Tablature File - RMTF (.mid), Creative Music File -CMF (.cmf), ABC (.abc), Tablature text file (.tab)
8 NoteEdit 1) GNU/Linux Free, GPL NoteEdit (.not) NoteEdit, MusicXML, MIDI MIDI, MusiXTeX, ABC, PMX, Lilypond, MusicXML
9 Rosegarden GNU/Linux Free, GPL Rosegarden (.rg) Rosegarden, MIDI, Hydrogen MIDI, Lilypond, MusicXML, Csound, Arkkra Enterprises Music Publisher
10 Sibelius Windows, Mac OS ? ? ? ?
11 xml2ly Any 2) Free, GPL None Music XML Lilypond

Programs-formats compatibilities table (by format)

From → toabccmfcsounddnmencetfgtph2jtfkarlymidmodmupmusmusmyrnotnwcpmxrgrhps3mstystytabteftexxml
abc (ABC) 5 7 5 7 5 7 5 6 7 5 7 5
cmf (Creative Music File) 5 7 5 7 5 7 5 7 5 7 5
Csound
dnm (Denemo) 2 2 2 2 2
enc (Encore) 5 5 5 5 5 5
etf (Finale) 5 5 5 4 5 6 4 5 4 5
gtp, gp3, gp4 (GuitarPro) 5 5 5 5 5 5
h2 (Hydrogen) 9 9 9 9 9 9
jtf
kar (Karaoke) 5 7 5 7 5 7 5 7 5 7 5
ly (Lilypond) 6
mid (MIDI) 2 5 7 8 5 7 2 9 2 2 5 7 2 8 9 4 5 6 7 8 9 9 4 8 9 5 7 4 5 8 9
mod (Soundtracker MOD) 5 7 5 7 5 7 5 7 5 7 5
mup (Arkkra Enterprises) 6
mus (Finale) 5 5 5 4 5 4 5 4 5
mus (Music Time) 5 5 5 5 5 5
myr, mus (Myriad) 5 7 5 7 5 7 5 7 5 7 5
not (NoteEdit) 8 8 8 8 8
nwc (Noteworthy Composer) 5 5 5 5 5 5
pmx
rg (Rosegarden) 9 9 9 9 9 9
rhp (Rhapsody) 5 5 5 5 5 5
s3m (Scream Tracker) 5 7 5 7 5 7 5 7 5 7 5
sty (Band In a Box) 5 5 5 5 5 5
sty (Yamaha) 5 5 5 5 5 5
tab (Tablature text file) 5 7 5 7 5 7 5 7 5 7 5
tef (Tabledit) 5 5 5 5 5 5
tex (MusiXTeX)
xml (Music XML) 5 8 5 5 8 11 4 5 6 8 4 8 5 4 5 8
1)
NoteEdit development has basically stopped, since the core team now moved to Canorus
2)
xml2ly is written in Python, so it can run on any OS with Python interpreter installed
music_formats.txt · Ultima modifica: 2010/02/21 22:00 da pietro