MuseScore

Mentors: Student: Aniketto

This project aims to enhance the user experience and streamline the workflow of musical score editing in MuseScore through the implementation of a Dynamics Popup feature. The primary objective is to develop a new user interface component that appears when users interact with dynamic markings or hairpins within the score. The Dynamics Popup will enable users to seamlessly replace dynamic markings, add new ones, and select hairpin options such as crescendo or decrescendo. Upon selecting a hairpin, the hairpin along with a suggested arrival dynamic will be drawn on the score. Further, the Popup will reposition itself above the arrival dynamic allowing the user to set it to what they want.

Mentors: Student: Animesh Tewari

Organisations such as the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) are currently manually adjusting appearance settings like staff size change, line thickness change etc. in Musescore to aid users with low vision, as these features are scattered throughout the software. This manual adjustment process consumes significant resources and bandwidth, posing challenges for effective access and use of the software by individuals with visual impairments. The idea is to address this issue by introducing a new settings feature in MuseScore. This feature will provide a list of standard accessibility profiles, such as normal, large, etc., each one customised to specific needs of users with low vision. These profiles will collectively update a set of appearance settings, including staff size, page size, and other relevant ones, to enhance accessibility for users with visual impairments.

Mentors: Student: Hirnaymay Bhaskar

The main objective of this project is to develop a functioning text pop-up feature in Musescore. This pop-up will act as a framework for various text-related features that will be added in the future. It can be accessed by selecting a section of text in the score, providing users with access to basic text properties such as font, font color, font size, line spacing, and text spacing. In addition to the text pop-up feature, UI improvements in Musescore will be implemented to enhance the overall user experience. These improvements will focus on optimizing the layout and improving usability. If time permits, spell-checking, automatic hyphenation, and verse extraction capabilities will be worked on as a part of this project.

Mentors: Student: James Mizen

This project will add a well integrated method of adding and editing harp pedalling diagrams to scores. The user will drag a pedalling diagram from the palette to the score then be able to edit it from the inspector. Proofreading will be immediate and automatic, giving the user feedback by highlighting notes impossible to play in the current configuration in red.

Mentors: Student: Rahul_Garg

This project intends to extend the shortcut system of the application by allowing users to instantly attach a shortcut to any required item in the interface. This may be accomplished via right-clicking the buttons and bringing up a context menu, or by using a modifier key (say CTRL) to assign a shortcut to the button pressed while holding that key. A stretch goal would be to create collections of shortcuts to assist new users coming from comparable software like as Sibelius in becoming acclimated and comfortable working with MuseScore.