And when a new release of MuseScore is available, updating it would take just a single click. Should the library be updated, it would only download the necessary files rather than the entire library all over again. The hub application is being designed to handle both library and MuseScore updates as well. Once the library is installed, MuseScore will automatically prompt you to activate it, like this. If you would prefer to switch off P2P sharing, we will provide clear controls to do so, although this may slow down your download speed significantly To handle the millions of downloads we are expecting, we are utilising P2P sharing to speed up download time and reducing server load. It's worth also mentioning that there will be no tracking systems or advertising either. The user can now immediately install both options without any complications: no sign-in requirements or verification process. Once opened, it will display two options (see the draft sketch below): The hub application will be very small in size and will download very quickly. As a person who is generally not a fan of download managers and hub applications, I was also sceptical of this option at first but am now confident that it will provide the ideal experience. For those who do want the library, the link will first download a Hub application that can securely and quickly manage the download of both the library and MuseScore itself.Īt this point you might be thinking: 'Hold on, I thought you said this was going to be simple? You've added another installation step!' Well, yes. On our download page, there will be two options: for those who want to install MuseScore without the external library, the experience will be unchanged. We’ve gone through quite a few iterations on the ideal experience and have landed on the following. How to ensure that it ‘just works’ upon installation.How to reliably download and install the library, given that it is going to be around 7GB in size.This process will not be in place for the upcoming alpha release but will be fully testable for beta. Although we are not quite ready to provide teaser examples of how this library will sound, I thought I’d quickly describe how we are designing the downloading and installation process. In previous posts, I’ve briefly described the playback library Muse has been developing, which we intend to offer as a free external plugin for MuseScore 4.

MuseScore 4.1 for apple download