Conversion for MXL files

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Jim Halvorson

• August 12, 2020 15:24

You currently accept the import of XML and Midi files into noteflight. Many scores (especially those created on Finale or MuseScore) are automatically saved using the Compressed MusicXML format (.mxl). 

You currently don't support that importing so it adds a few more steps to add a working copy to noteflight. There is no easy file converter online and if you are on anything but a PC or Mac that has one of these other programs you cannot automatically convert to import this music. 

For example, I am working on a chromebase right now and I just downloaded a choral piece off of CPDL to import into noteflight. The file is in .mxl format and noteflight doesn't recognize it. Being a chromebase, I don't have access to MuseScore or Finale to be able to open this music in those programs, and then export again in the XML format noteflight accepts.

It would be great if noteflight accepted and imported the .mxl file format natively to save a bunch of steps.

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  Sacquer

  • August 25, 2021 20:46

  This is still a problem. Most music xml files, eg on CPDL and files exported by common music apps, are in this format. It is very inconvenient that Noteworthy does not import these. It is a barrier to my work flow as I have archives in mxl that I want to upload.

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  dionmorales10

  • September 28, 2022 17:53

  And even another year later, this is still an issue.

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  bnjc

  • March 24, 2023 21:49
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  Looks like you can import and export Compressed MusicXML (.mxl) scores now!

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  FredWurst

  • November 16, 2024 08:18

  I've found this works for many MusicXML files:

  xmllint --format file_that_errors_on_import.xml > new_file_name.xml

  Then import the new_file_name.xml that's created. Not sure what's up there, haven't really dug into it other than seeing that the file went from compact (no newlines) to pretty-printed XML. There's no real reason this should work other than maybe xmllint having a more permissive input format and strict enough output format, but XML is so highly-specified I find it hard to imagine that xmllint is actually allowing invalid XML, and much more likely that Noteflight chokes on perfectly valid XML.

  Anyway, give it a shot if you get import errors, can't hurt!

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