MuseScore

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MuseScore was created as a fork of the MusE sequencer's codebase. In 2002, Werner Schweer, one of the MusE developers, decided to remove notation support from MusE and create a stand-alone notation program from the codebase.{{cite web |last1=Phillips |first1=Dave |title=At the Sounding Edge: Music Notation Software, the Final Installment |url=http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8972 |website=Linux Journal |access-date=5 January 2016 |date=6 April 2006}}{{cite web |title=WYSIWYG music app makes a score |url=https://sourceforge.net/blog/wysiwyg-music-app-makes-a-score/ |website=Blog |date=21 June 2010 |publisher=SourceForge |access-date=28 July 2016}}

The MuseScore.org website was created in 2008,{{cite web |last1=Pisano |first1=Joseph M. |title=MuseScore, A Free Open-Souce Music Composition And Notation Program |url=http://mustech.net/2008/10/musescore-a-free-open-souce-music/ |website=mustech.net |access-date=8 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221207193403/http://mustech.net/2008/10/musescore-a-free-open-souce-music/ |archive-date=7 December 2022 |date=7 October 2008 |url-status=dead}} and quickly showed a rapidly rising number of MuseScore downloads. By December 2008, the download rate had reached 15,000 per month.

Version 0.9.5 was released in August 2009. By October 2009, MuseScore was being downloaded more than 1000 times per day. By the fourth quarter of 2010, it was being downloaded 80,000 times per month.{{cite web |last=Bonte |first=Thomas |title=The State of MuseScore |url=https://musescore.org/en/node/8099 |website=musescore.org |access-date=25 June 2021 |date=27 November 2010}}{{cite web |title=MuseScore: Download Statistics: All Files |url=http://sourceforge.net/projects/mscore/files/stats/timeline?dates=2009-09-01+to+2009-10-31 |website=SourceForge |access-date=5 January 2016}}

At the end of 2013, the project moved from SourceForge to GitHub. Continuous download statistics have not been publicly available since then. However, a March 2015 press release stated that MuseScore had been downloaded over eight million times;{{cite web |last1=Bonte |first1=Thomas |last2=Weiss |first2=Isaac |title=MuseScore 2.0 makes creating sheet music easier and faster |url=https://www.prweb.com/releases/musescore_2_0_makes_creating_sheet_music_easier_and_faster/prweb12589042.htm |website=PRWeb |access-date=18 January 2016 |date=25 March 2015}} and in December 2016 the project stated that version 2.0.3 had been downloaded 1.9 million times in the nine months since its release.

The MuseScore company uses income from their commercial sheet music-sharing service to support the free notation software's development.{{cite news |last1=Schweer |first1=Werner |last2=Froment |first2=Nicolas |last3=Bonte |first3=Thomas |title=MuseScore joins Ultimate Guitar |newspaper=Musescore Blog |url=https://blog.musescore.com/post/171048706627/musescore-joins-ultimate-guitar |access-date=31 May 2019}}

In 2017, the MuseScore company was acquired by Ultimate Guitar, which added full-time paid developers to the open source team.{{cite web |last1=Rothman |first1=Philip |title=Muse Group formed to support MuseScore, Ultimate Guitar; acquires Audacity |url=https://www.scoringnotes.com/news/muse-group-formed-to-support-musescore-ultimate-guitar-acquires-audacity/ |website=Scoring Notes |date=30 April 2021 |access-date=8 February 2023}} In 2021, the MuseScore company, Ultimate Guitar, and other properties (including Audacity) were put under a new parent company, Muse Group,{{Cite web |last=Rothman |first=Philip |date=30 April 2021 |title=Muse Group formed to support MuseScore, Ultimate Guitar; acquires Audacity |url=https://www.scoringnotes.com/news/muse-group-formed-to-support-musescore-ultimate-guitar-acquires-audacity/ |access-date=3 May 2021 |website=Scoring Notes |language=en-US}} in Limassol, Cyprus. In 2022, the MuseScore company finished relocating to Muse Group's Cyprus headquarters.{{Cite web |title=Muse Group opens its headquarters in Limassol, Cyprus! |url=https://mu.se/newsroom/tpost/i125mfl9s1-muse-group-opens-its-headquarters-in-lim |access-date=15 July 2022 |website=mu.se |language=en}} In January 2024, the music notation app formerly known as MuseScore was rebranded MuseScore Studio.

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MuseScore Studio's main purpose is the creation of high-quality engraved musical scores in a "What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get" environment.{{Cite web |date=20 March 2013 |title=Review: MuseScore is powerful and free musical notation software |url=https://www.pcworld.com/article/2031424/review-musescore-is-powerful-and-free-musical-notation-software.html |access-date=10 June 2020 |website=PCWorld |language=en}} It supports unlimited staves, linked parts and part extraction, tablature, MIDI input and output, percussion notation, cross-staff beaming, automatic transposition, lyrics (multiple verses), fretboard diagrams, and in general everything commonly used in sheet music.{{cite web |last1=Smelser |first1=Robert |title=MuseScore |url=https://simplyrobert.wordpress.com/2014/08/11/musescore/ |website=Simply Robert |date=11 August 2014 |access-date=3 January 2017}}{{cite web |last1=Smelser |first1=Robert |title=MuseScore 2.0 Beta |url=https://simplyrobert.wordpress.com/2015/02/17/musescore-2-0-beta/ |access-date=3 January 2017 |website=Simply Robert|date=18 February 2015 }} Style options to change the appearance and layout are available,{{cite web |last1=Jacobi |first1=Jon |title=MuseScore review – powerful, free musical notation software |url=http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/review/audio-and-music-software/musescore-review-3436679/ |website=PC Advisor |access-date=3 January 2017}} and style sheets can be saved and applied to other scores. There are pre-defined templates for many types of ensembles. Functionality can be extended by making use of the many freely available plugins.{{cite web |last1=Prokoudine |first1=Alexander |title=MuseScore 2.0 brings better music notation, improved usability |url=http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/musescore-2-0-brings-better-music-notation-improved-usability |website=Libre Graphics World |access-date=28 December 2016}}{{cite web |last1=Germain |first1=Jack |title=MuseScore Can Turn Songwriters Into Maestros |url=http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/82648.html |website=LinuxInsider |date=23 October 2015 |publisher=ECT News Network |access-date=28 July 2016}}

MuseScore Studio can also play back scores through the built-in sequencer and SoundFont sample library. Multiple SoundFonts can be loaded into MuseScore Studio's synthesizer. It includes a mixer to mute, solo, or adjust the volume of individual parts, and chorus, reverb and other effects are supported during playback.{{cite web |last1=Kenlon |first1=Seth |title=How to create sheet music on Linux with MuseScore |url=https://opensource.com/life/16/03/musescore-tutorial |website=OpenSource.com |publisher=Red Hat |access-date=28 July 2016}} MIDI output to external devices and software synthesizers is also possible.{{cite web |last1=Os |first1=Anatoly |title=MuseScore 2.2 is released |url=https://musescore.org/en/2.2 |website=MuseScore.org |publisher=MuseScore |access-date=27 March 2018}}

MuseScore Studio can import and export to many formats, though some are export-only (visual representations and audio) and some are import-only (native files from some other music notation programs).

MuseScore Studio's native file formats are .mscx, which is XML data containing the score; and .mscz, a zip archive containing the .mscx and other data. The .mscz format is the default format, as it occupies less space and supports additional data, such as images.{{cite web |url=https://musescore.org/en/handbook/file-formats |title=File formats |website=musescore.org |access-date=3 December 2020}}

MuseScore Studio also can import and export compressed (.mxl) and uncompressed (.xml) MusicXML files, which allows a score to be edited in other music notation programs (including Sibelius and Finale). The latest edition of MuseScore Studio uses MusicXML 4.0.{{Cite web |title=File export |url=https://musescore.org/en/handbook/4/file-export |access-date=2023-04-19 |website=MuseScore.org |language=en}} It can also import and export MIDI (.mid, .midi, and .kar), which is supported by many other programs (such as Synthesia), although since MIDI is not designed for sheet music, some information may be lost.

MuseScore Studio can also import certain other music software's native formats, including Band-in-a-Box (.mgu and .sgu), Bagpipe Music Writer (.bww), Guitar Pro (.gtp, .gp3, .gp4, .gp5, and .gpx), Capella (must be version 2000 (3.0) or later; .cap and .capx) and Overture formats. It can also import MuseData (.md), which has been superseded by MusicXML.

Audio can be exported to WAV, FLAC, MP3 and OGG files; and graphical representations of scores can be exported to PDF, SVG and PNG formats, as well as printed.

Since May 2014 MuseScore has mobile apps available for iOS, Android and Kindle Fire which tie into the MuseScore score-sharing site. The app can play scores, and allows transposition and part extraction, but does not create or edit scores.

MuseScore Studio also runs as a portable application. It can be installed onto a regular hard disk drive or stored on a removable storage device such as a CD, USB flash drive or flash card, so that it can be run on any compatible Windows computer system.

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A new notation font, Leland, created by Martin Keary and Simon Smith, was introduced in MuseScore 3.6. Its name is a reference to Leland Smith, the creator of SCORE, a notation program formerly used by many publishers.{{Citation |title=How I Designed a Free Music Font for 5 Million Musicians (MuseScore 3.6) | date=15 January 2021 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGo4PJd1lng |access-date=2023-11-16 |language=en}} The update also introduced a new text font, Edwin, influenced by the classic New Century Schoolbook typeface.{{cite web |last1=Whittaker |first1=George |title=MuseScore Created New Font in Memory of Original SCORE Program Creator |url=https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/musescore-created-new-font-memory-original-score-program-creator |website=Linux Journal |access-date=2 October 2022}}

In Musescore 4.0, support was added for VST3 instrument and effects plugins on Windows and macOS. The Muse Group also released a free orchestral plugin, MuseSounds, designed to provide more realistic playback.{{Cite web |last=Ronnie |date=15 December 2022 |title=MuseScore 4 breaks ground with free music composition software designed for accessibility |url=https://rekkerd.org/musescore-4-breaks-ground-with-free-music-composition-software-designed-for-accessibility/ |access-date=16 December 2022 |website=rekkerd.org |language=en-US}}

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MuseScore Studio is free and open-source software and is written mainly in C++, with the graphical user interface making use of the cross-platform Qt toolkit. Originally founded by Werner Schweer, Nicolas Froment and Thomas Bonte, the project is now headed by Martin Keary (Head of Software) and Vasily Pereverzev (Lead Developer) with a wider community also contributing.{{Cite web |title=Meet the MuseScore Contributors |url=https://musescore.org/en/handbook/developers-handbook/meet-musescore-contributors |access-date=16 December 2022 |website=MuseScore.org}} Google Summer of Code has sponsored students to help develop MuseScore in 2013, 2014 and 2016 to 2021.{{cite web |title=Google Summer of Code |url=https://musescore.org/en/developers-handbook/google-summer-code |website=MuseScore.org |access-date=24 September 2018}} MuseScore Studio's development takes place on GitHub.{{cite web |title=Development |url=https://musescore.org/en/development |website=MuseScore.org |access-date=14 March 2017}}

Contributing code to MuseScore Studio requires that contributors sign an online Contributor License Agreement.{{cite web |title=Contributor License Agreement |url=https://musescore.org/en/cla |website=MuseScore.org |access-date=24 December 2019}}

MuseScore has accumulated generally favorable reviews since its release from critics, scholars, and educators, who praise its relative ease of use and free availability.{{Cite journal |last=Watson |first=Maike |date=2018-07-03 |title=MuseScore|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.2989/18121004.2018.1534342 |journal=Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa |language=en |volume=15 |issue=1–2 |pages=143–147 |doi=10.2989/18121004.2018.1534342 |issn=1812-1004 |url-access=limited |access-date=2024-10-31 |via=Taylor & Francis Online}}{{Cite conference |last=Todea |first=Diana |date=2015-10-31 |title=The Use of the MuseScore Software in Musical E-Learning |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328890918 |conference=The 10th International Conference on Virtual Learning |location=Romania |publisher=Bucharest University Press |pages=88 |issn=1844-8933 |quote=This allowed us to identify the most relevant music softwares, and, especially, to come across MuseScore, a musical recording and editing software. Its user friendly interface, free downloading option and the fact that it can be accessed in multiple languages – Romanian included – led us to its inclusion within the study.|via=ResearchGate}}

Online computer magazine PC World gave a rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars to MuseScore 1.3. It praised the precise control over the size and spacing of every object, and the abilities to define keyboard shortcuts and drag and drop modifiers, but criticized its mouse methodology as occasionally unintuitive for not fully exploring the potential of drag-and-drop menus.{{cite web|url=https://www.pcworld.com/article/457237/review-musescore-is-powerful-and-free-musical-notation-software.html|title=Review: MuseScore is powerful and free musical notation software|last=Jacobi|first=Jon L.|work=PC World|date=20 March 2013|access-date=11 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170227233011/http://www.pcworld.com/article/2031424/review-musescore-is-powerful-and-free-musical-notation-software.html|archive-date=27 February 2017|url-status=live}} Technology news website Softpedia rated it 4.5 out of 5 stars, calling it "well-organized" and "comprehensive". It was lauded for its customizability, the ability to upload user sheet music, and import support for many different file formats.{{cite web|url=https://www.softpedia.com/get/Others/Home-Education/MuseScore.shtml|title=Let your imagination be the only limit in creating an audio masterpiece using this highly customizable, music composition app through scores and notes|last=Dragomir|first=Mircea|work=Softpedia|date=5 November 2014|access-date=11 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230111211919/https://www.softpedia.com/get/Others/Home-Education/MuseScore.shtml|archive-date=11 January 2023|url-status=live}}

In its review of the 3.3 release, TopTenReviews gave MuseScore 4.5-stars out of 5, praising its ability to create tablature and percussion sheet music alongside traditional notation, its support for hundreds of instruments, and the abilities it gave users to share music and interact with other users online.{{cite web|url=https://www.toptenreviews.com/music-notation-software-musescore-review|title=MuseScore review|last=Bommer|first=Billy|work=TopTenReviews|date=31 January 2019|access-date=11 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230111215411/https://www.toptenreviews.com/music-notation-software-musescore-review|archive-date=11 January 2023|url-status=live}}

Reviewing MuseScore 4.0, British magazine Music Teacher welcomed the version's improved engraving, new cloud storage, and focus on accessibility, such as allowing users to export their compositions in braille, an expanded colour scheme, and keyboard navigation. It also noted its support for VSTs, including the application's own MuseSounds, which the magazine considered a boon to teachers seeking easier ways to export their scores to audio.{{cite web|url=https://www.musicteachermagazine.co.uk/review/article/tech-reviews-musescore-4|title=Tech Reviews: MuseScore 4|last=Wills|first=Dale|work=Music Teacher|publisher=Rhinegold Publishing|date=1 August 2022|access-date=11 January 2023|issn=0027-4461|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230111191139/https://www.musicteachermagazine.co.uk/review/article/tech-reviews-musescore-4|archive-date=11 January 2023|url-status=live}}

MuseScore reported over 7,000 downloads per day in 2016.{{cite web |last=Weiss |first=Isaac |title=MuseScore in 2016: The year in review |url=https://musescore.org/en/user/101731/blog/2016/12/27/musescore-2016-year-review |website=MuseScore |access-date=27 December 2016}} Many Linux distributions also include MuseScore in their software libraries,{{cite web |title=Download |url=http://musescore.org/en/download |website=MuseScore |access-date=6 January 2016}} such as in the Ubuntu Software Center. {{As of|December 2022}}, MuseScore had been downloaded 12.1 million times.{{Cite web |title=What We Create |url=https://mu.se/muse-products |access-date=16 December 2022}}

Many educational institutions use MuseScore, including Drew University and the Ionian University.{{cite web |title=Schools & Universities using MuseScore |url=http://musescore.org/about/references |website=Musescore |access-date=23 August 2012}} The Board of Education of La Seigneurie des Milles-îles in Canada has made it available on 10,000 computers in schools across the Milles-îles region of Québec.{{cite web |last=Bonte |first=Thomas |title=MuseScore installed on 10,000 computers in Quebec |url=http://musescore.org/en/node/10330 |access-date=23 August 2012 |date=20 April 2011}}

In 2011, MuseScore launched a Kickstarter campaign to create high-quality, freely available digital score and audio versions of the Goldberg Variations. The process influenced the development of MuseScore 2, with notation improvements needed in order to create a high-quality engraving of the variations.{{cite web|last1=Prokoudine|first1=Alexandre|date=29 May 2012|title=Open Goldberg Variations: mission accomplished|url=https://librearts.org/2012/05/open-goldberg-variations-mission-accomplished/|access-date=2 December 2021|website=Libre Arts}} With the fundraising goal met, MuseScore developers, pianist Kimiko Ishizaka, and crowd-sourced reviewers collaborated to create an engraved score and also record a new album, both of which were released under a Creative Commons Zero license (without copyright), meaning they can be downloaded and shared freely. In 2012, at the end of the online public review process, the final engraved score was released for free on MuseScore.com,{{cite web |title=Open Goldberg Variations: The public review for the Open Goldberg Variations Project |url=http://musescore.com/groups/opengoldberg |website=MuseScore |access-date=6 January 2016}} and printed and bound by GRIN in Germany. Kimiko Ishizaka's recording was released for free on BandCamp.{{cite web |title=Bach's Open Goldberg Variations, by Kimiko Ishizaka |url=http://www.opengoldbergvariations.org |website=Open Goldberg Variations |access-date=4 January 2017}}{{cite web |title=Goldberg Variations Complete (J.S. Bach BWV 988), with score, Kimiko Ishizaka piano |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15ezpwCHtJs |website=YouTube | date=28 November 2014 |access-date=4 January 2017}}

In 2013, a second successful Kickstarter funded the creation of a new edition of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. Once again, the score underwent public review on MuseScore.com,{{cite web |title=Open Well-Tempered Clavier – MuseScore edition |url=https://musescore.com/user/9836/sets/669666 |website=MuseScore.com |access-date=25 June 2021}} and was recorded by Kimiko Ishizaka,{{cite web |title=The Well-Tempered Clavier, by J.S. Bach – Performed on the piano by Kimiko Ishizaka – free, libre, and gratis to download and enjoy |url=https://www.welltemperedclavier.org |website=The Open Well-Tempered Clavier |access-date=4 January 2017}}{{cite web |title=Well-Tempered Clavier (J.S. Bach), Book 1, Kimiko Ishizaka, piano |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPHIZw7HZq4 |website=YouTube | date=30 November 2015 |access-date=4 January 2017}} with both score and recordings released into the public domain in 2015.{{cite web |last1=Prokoudine |first1=Alexandre |title=Kimiko Ishizaka and MuseScore team release Open Well-Tempered Clavier |url=http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/kimiko-ishizaka-and-musescore-team-release-open-well-tempered-clavier |website=Libre Graphics World |access-date=4 January 2017}}

After hearing from a blind musician{{cite web |last1=Douglass |first1=Robert |title=Kickstarting open source music and doubling the number of scores for the blind |url=https://opensource.com/life/13/10/kickstarting-open-source-music |website=OpenSource |access-date=4 January 2017}} who contributed to the Open WTC Kickstarter, MuseScore set up new stretch funding goals to support making music notation more accessible to blind and visually impaired musicians. Though the top goal of automatically converting all scores in the MuseScore.com library to braille was not funded, they did get funding to create braille sheet music for both the Goldberg Variations and the Well-Tempered Clavier. The digital files (for braille terminals & printers) are available for free download, like the standard scores.{{cite web |last1=Douglass |first1=Robert |title=Braille edition of the Open Goldberg Variations |url=https://www.opengoldbergvariations.org/news/braille-edition-of-the-open-goldberg-variations/ |website=Open Goldberg Variations |date=2014-05-23 |access-date=2023-03-25 }}

In 2017, MuseScore and the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) launched a Kickstarter for OpenScore, an initiative to create MuseScore and MusicXML versions of public domain music from IMSLP's library.{{cite web |title=Liberating Sheet Music |url=https://www.openscore.cc/ |website=OpenScore |publisher=MuseScore and IMSLP |access-date=4 June 2017}}

{{Blockquote |text=OpenScore wants to digitise and liberate all public domain sheet music, including the great classics of Mozart, Beethoven and Bach. Our community aims to transfer history’s most influential pieces from paper into interactive scores which you can listen to, edit and share. Together, we can make sheet music accessible to everyone. For free, for any purpose, for evermore. |author=OpenScore |source={{Cite web|url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/openscore/openscore-join-the-sheet-music-revolution/|title = OPENSCORE: Join the sheet music revolution!}} |title=}}

{{As of|December 2020}}, a number of scores had been completed, including Mozart's Jupiter Symphony, Gluck's Iphigénie en Aulide, Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, Holst's The Planets and around 900 songs in the OpenScore Lieder Corpus.{{cite web |title=OpenScore Lieder Corpus |url=https://musescore.com/openscore-lieder-corpus/sets |website=MuseScore |access-date=10 August 2019}}

There are several ongoing OpenScore projects which provide Public Domain scores:

• OpenScore – main transcription group
• OpenScore Lieder Corpus – French, German and English song cycles (over 1,300 songs as at 2024)
• OpenScore String Quartets – full score and parts for string quartets (over 100 quartets as at 2024)
• OpenScore Braille – MusicXML score exports for conversion to Braille

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The Save Online feature of the MuseScore application allows users to publish and share their music online through MuseScore.com. Initially, MuseScore.com allowed free downloads of scores, free uploads of up to 5 scores, and unlimited uploads for paid accounts.

Starting in 2015 with MuseScore 2.0, its Start Center displays featured scores from the website. This feature is no longer present in MuseScore 4.0.

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Starting in June 2019, a number of users who uploaded Disney songs were "copyright struck" by Disney.{{Cite web|url=https://musescore.com/groups/improving-musescore-com/discuss/5043152|title=disney coperight | Improving MuseScore.com | Musical articles and discussions | Musescore.com|website=musescore.com}} Publisher Hal Leonard was taking down original music, or arrangements of music that was in the public domain, based on song titles.{{Cite web|url=https://musescore.com/groups/musescore-composers/discuss/5042905|title=Hal Leonard Claimed My Music, What Do I Do? | MuseScore Composers | Musical articles and discussions | Musescore.com|website=musescore.com}} MuseScore.com has since obtained permission to publicly display Disney music on the site, unblocking previously uploaded scores.{{Cite web |last=Musescore |title=[NEWS] Disney compositions are available on musescore.com {{!}} MuseScore Official Group {{!}} Musical articles and discussions {{!}} Musescore.com |url=https://musescore.com/groups/musescore-official-group/discuss/5096268 |access-date=23 August 2022 |website=musescore.com |language=en}}

In July 2019, following complaints from some copyright holders, MuseScore.com changed its policies so that only paying subscribers could download music sheets. Since MuseScore.com did not have a "trustworthy tool to distinguish songs under copyright from songs available for distribution", this applied to all scores, even those intended for liberal sharing via a Creative Commons license.{{cite web |date=14 July 2019 |title=Score download becomes a part of the Pro subscription. |url=https://musescore.com/groups/improving-musescore-com/discuss/5044610# |access-date=26 March 2020 |website=musescore.com}}

In August and September 2019, features were added to allow works to be marked as public domain or original, so they could be made available for free download.{{Cite web |title=[New Feature] The new form makes it possible to upload Public domain works. {{!}} MuseScore Updates and Statuses {{!}} Musical articles and discussions {{!}} MuseScore.com |url=https://musescore.com/groups/musescore-updates-and-statuses/discuss/5046647 |access-date=18 January 2021 |website=musescore.com}}{{Cite web |title=[New Feature] Original Songs are available for download to all users {{!}} MuseScore Updates and Statuses {{!}} Musical articles and discussions {{!}} MuseScore.com |url=https://musescore.com/groups/musescore-updates-and-statuses/discuss/5047750 |access-date=18 January 2021 |website=MuseScore.com}}

On 19 February 2020, MuseScore.com announced that everyone could now upload an unlimited number of scores, even without subscribing. Subscribers still have access to special features such as Track setup and downloads.{{cite web |date=19 February 2020 |title=Unlimited score uploads for everyone. We've removed the 5-scores upload limit. |url=https://musescore.com/groups/improving-musescore-com/discuss/5058097 |access-date=4 March 2020 |website=MuseScore.com}} MuseScore.com allows playback of a score in any browser supporting the HTML5 audio tag. A score can also be linked to YouTube so that one may follow the sheet music while watching a video of hearing audio featuring the score.

In September 2021, MuseScore.com launched Official Scores, scores licensed from sheet music publishers, available with an additional subscription.{{Cite web |last=Mandelstam |first=David |date=17 September 2021 |title=Introducing Official Scores |url=https://musescore.com/groups/musescore-official-group/discuss/5109655 |access-date=16 December 2022 |website=MuseScore.com}}

{{As of|December 2022}}, the website hosts 1.3 million scores and averages 300,000 visitors per day. For the year 2023, they claimed at least 450 million score views, 56 million visitors, and 1.35 million added scores.{{Cite web |date=2023-12-28 |title=MuseScore social media post |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/C1Z-SzVIgrw/ |access-date=2023-12-29 |website=Instagram}}

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