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| − | * Audio: <tt>MP3, OGG, MP4, MIDI</tt> |
+ | * Audio: <tt>MP3, OGG, MP4, FLAC, MIDI</tt> |
| − | * Video: <tt> |
+ | * Video: <tt>MP4</tt> |
There is no additional information about these formats at the moment, but please add information to this page if you are familiar with any of the above formats. |
There is no additional information about these formats at the moment, but please add information to this page if you are familiar with any of the above formats. |
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On this page you can find some information on the file formats used in IMSLP. If you want to download the PDF file of the score you're currently looking for, you clicked the wrong link. Please go back and click on the score description to retrieve the PDF.
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Portable Document Format (PDF) is the main type of document used here on IMSLP for music scores. To view PDF files, download one of the recommended clients:
For Ubuntu users who browse the web with Firefox, click here to install Mozplugger. Mozplugger embeds the Evince PDF Reader (among other things) inside Firefox. Evince is installed by default, but you can make sure by clicking here.
For Mac (OS X) users, creating PDF files is possible without additional software. A tutorial can be found here.
Note: Mac users should not use Preview to open pdf files. Preview is not able to display some of the files on IMSLP correctly.
Permitted recording file types
There is no additional information about these formats at the moment, but please add information to this page if you are familiar with any of the above formats.
DJVU is a file format very similar to PDF, and is conceived as a replacement for PDF. DJVU is especially designed for scanned documents, so the document legibility is higher than PDF at the same file size. Detailed information can be found here.
Some applications that can view/create DJVU files:
File formats used by Finale and Score. The code is not interchangeable between the two programmes.
Finale MUS files can be read and printed using the free Finale Reader.
File format used by Sibelius. SIB files can be read/printed after installing the free Scorch plugin.
ZIP files are compressed archives which -most of the time- contain more than one file (i.e. ZIP files aren't music files, but archive files which contain music files such as PDF, DJVU, MUS or SIB)
To extract files from a ZIP file, you can use one of the following applications:
Note, also, that in the latest version of most known operating systems (Windows, Linux, Macintosh) there are pre-installed applications with which you can open ZIP files (Windows XP and up have WinZip installed, in Linux there is Ark and 7-Zip etc).
