Hello there,
Trying to export some dorico file in XML and when opening in Sibelius Ultimate 2023 or Finale 27, every text indications and all the rehearsal marks are missing…
Is there a way to include these crucial parameters in in the exported .musicxml ?
Thanks by advance!
AFAIK Dorico does not export rehearsal marks in musicxml.
Thanks @Janus! That’s a really annoying problem… Is it the same with text indications? Perhaps @dspreadbury can enlighten us on that topic?
It seems that some improvements have been made on the XML exporting features of Dorico in 2019 but I can’t find anything since then… Perhaps there is something new that I’ve missed?
I think for most software XML export is generally less well supported than XML import. It was ever thus.
There are many things Dorico doesn’t export in musicxml export. There are several threads on the forum about those. Between Finale, Sibelius, Dorico and MuseScore I find MuseScore does the best job exporting items, but even it is lacking. I think it depends on your final product needs but you might consider engraving in MuseScore when xml output is of primary importance.
We have been expending considerable effort on enriching MusicXML export over the last few months, and the forthcoming Dorico 5 update will include a lot of improvements in this area. There will still be more to do, but export will be considerably more complete from that update.
Great news! Thanks a lot @dspreadbury, looking forward to that then!
Reviving this topic. Sent an xml to a client who opened it in Sibelius and found many lyrics missing. Not good. What’s the latest on the improvement to xml export?
We’d need to see the project itself, @luke.w. Lyrics are certainly included in Dorico’s MusicXML export.
I believe there is a bug in Sibelius’ MusicXML import (at least in some versions) where it will only import lyrics that are written out next to the bottom note of a chord. In Dorico’s MusicXML export lyrics are often associated with other notes in a chord, and Sibelius seems not to be able to cope with this.
Magic Happens.dorico (1.1 MB)
Magic Happens.musicxml (792.8 KB)
@dspreadbury here are the Dorico and xml files. Let me know what I need to do to be sure all lyrics are included in the xml (or what my client should do when importing into Sibelius).
Easy check if Lyrics are included in the XML is importing the XML in a new Dorico Project.
Importing in Finale show Lyrics too
I don’t have Sibelius, but if they don’t import in Sibelius, that suggest an importing bug in Sibelius as @Richard_Lanyon suggests
Very helpful! Thanks for taking the time to do this. I’ll ask the client if they’re on the latest Sibelius.
