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Joachim Schmitz edited this page May 28, 2024 · 14 revisions

How to get and install MuseScore 3 Evolution*)

Pre-requisites for Installation

  • A computer meeting the specification for running 3.6.2. (See Musescore 3 Installation Guide)

  • An OS which can extract .zip archives and .7z archives -- or --
    7-Zip File Manager (free, open-source software available from 7-Zip)

  • A GitHub account for downloading Musescore 3.7.0 artifacts. (A free account is sufficient).

  • Up to date antivirus since this is always a sensible precaution when installing software.

Installing Musescore 3.7.0

  • The procedure is shown for Windows 10 and takes only a few minutes. Other O/S installations are similar, although for macOS there have been reported some mixed results (to put it mildly), so for that please check this forum post

  • Navigate to the GitHub Musescore repository Jojo-Schmitz/MuseScore (well, you're here already) and login to GitHub.

  • Click on Actions to list "All worksflows" image

  • Choose a 3.x workflow (preferably the top-most one) that has a green tick showing successful completion (on all builds of that group!) and that matches your OS. There now are 'nightly builds' happening every night at 4am GMT (finished about 10-30 minutes later), easily identified by their names, CI_Linux, CI_MacOS and CI_Windows.

  • Click on the workflow title to link to the workflow details page. image

Workflow Details

  • In the Artifacts area of the workflow details click on the 64-bit package (x64) to download it.

    Note 1: This download requires that you are logged in to GitHub.

    Note 2: For some configurations of Windows the 64-bit version can be problematic, (e.g. missing plugins). If this happens then use the 32-bit package (x86) instead.

    Note 3: The package names will be different for MacOS and Linux.

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  • Download the package to the Downloads folder on your computer. image

  • Extract the .zip file to produce a .7z file image

  • Extract the .7z file to produce a folder with the same name as the .7z file image

  • Move this new folder to a more suitable location since the downloads folder is typically only used as a staging area.

  • Any folder can be used, (e.g. Program Files), but not a cloud sync'd folder, (OneDrive, DropBox etc). You may be asked for confirmation. image

  • The folder contents will look similar to this: image

  • Open the bin folder and locate the MuseScore3.exe file. image

  • Double-click the file to run MuseScore 3 Evolution image

  • Optional: Rename MuseScore3.exe to distinguish it from MuseScore 3.6.2, for example to MuseScore 3 Evolution.exe, or, to prevent spaces in the name, MuseScore3Evo.exe.

  • You can make a shortcut on the Windows Start Menu by right-clicking the .exe file and then choosing Pin to Start image

*) This page had initialy been written by @yonah_ag, and originally got published on https://sites.google.com/view/musescore-3-evolution/.

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