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PlayScore 2

Full Notation Music Recognition app. Play all kinds of music direct from photos, images and PDF scores
Category Price Seller Device
Music Free Organum Limited iPhone, iPad, iPod

Snap music with your camera or import images and PDFs. PlayScore will play it right back to you, scrolling through the song following bar by bar.

Create Playable Score Documents that anyone can play back using our free reader (built into PlayScore 2)

Export Full Notation MusicXML to score editors like Finale, Sibelius, MuseScore and Dorico, with dynamics, articulation, trills, turns, repeats, slurs etc, even tremolo, not just notes and rests (full spec below)

PlayScore 2 reads and plays all kinds of music straight off the page such as:

Songs
Piano, organ, guitar
Hymns
Solos and Sonatas
Chamber and orchestral

Choirs and ensembles - Learning a new piece? Create a Playable Score, so each member can listen to their part on its own or standing out from the others.

Interact with the music

• Change tempo (even while playing)
• Tap anywhere to play, or drag with a finger to create a loop
• Mute and adjust volume for each staff individually
• Transpose the whole song or by instrument (transposing instruments)
• Or select Auto-transpose and let PlayScore do it for you!

PlayScore 2 makes it easy to create multi-page Playable Scores that anyone can play back:

• Go back any time and recapture individual pages
• Rearrange or remove pages
• Select a page range in a long PDF
• Clip and mask to remove unwanted material (eg where one song ands and another begins on the same page)
• Adjust recognition system to optimise quality

Organise your Playable Score Documents
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The PlayScore 2 Documents screen shows all your playable scores as thumbnails of the music, displayed sorted and searchable by Title and Composer.

Subscriptions
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Without a subscription you can

• Play and interact with any PlayScore playable Score, listen to your part on its own
• Play pages of music in 1 or 2 staves per system from a photo
• Create and share single page playable documents

PlayScore II Productivity subscription

• Create and play multi-staff, multi-page scores captured with the camera or imported as images
• Export your documents for anyone to play and interact with using our free player
• Interact with scores, cater for transposing instruments, export MIDI files

PlayScore II Professional subscription

Create Playable Score documents from PDF scores that anyone can play (using the free player)
Export any score as MIDI and MusicXML containing full notation

Productivity and Professional versions are available as 1-month or 12-month auto-renewing subscriptions.
• The payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase
• The subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period
• Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal
• You may manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal by going to your Account Settings on-line after purchase

Important: Capturing copyrighted music without the copyright holder's permission is illegal.

PlayScore II recognises full music notation, not just the notes

Bars, notes, rests, accidentals including double accidentals
Tuplets: triplets etc, marked or implied
Staff bracketing: grand staff braces and other bracketing
Measures: double bars, repeats, 1st and 2nd ending, bars spanning systems and pages
Anacruses, complement anacruses
Dynamics: f, ff, fff, fz, fp, mf, p etc
Hairpins (crescendos and diminuendos)
Articulation: >, ^, . tenuto etc
Ornaments trills, turns, mordents etc
Tremolo: strikethrough, alternating, beamed white notes etc
Special symbols: fermata, repeat-bar etc
Fingering
slurs, ties
Clefs (system and inline): treble, bass, tenor, alto, soprano etc
Key and time signatures system and inline

Terms of use: https://playscore.co/terms-of-use

Reviews

Hola
Tahh bg

La app no reconoce varios símbolos musicales Creo que pueden mejorarla y esta muy cara para lo que hace


With this improvement the app would be 5 star (for me, anyway)
tdsoares

It would be helpful to have a better way to organize scores. Even a list view of the titles, rather than the icons would be easier to browse. Folders would be useful, too. Otherwise, I love this app and find it very helpful for me when working on timing and for isolating difficult parts to play on repeat. Thank you for your consideration this matter.


I didn’t enjoy it
WadeLanae

It wouldn’t let me upload files and when I used the camera, it would skip over notes and overall it was very frustrating.


WHEN it works....
Teo538

WHEN It works, it’s clearly pretty good. But getting it read the whole page of music at once is one of the most frustrating things I have ever tried to do. Keep trying developers.


NOT A REPLACEMENT FOR A GREAT PIANO TEACHER
Ratonasurfboard?

hahaha you will still need virtuoso pianists if you want to hear sheet music played ‘correctly’, if at all. Which this app was not able to accomplish in its entirety. The 4-stars is because I like the concept, but they have a very long ways to go before I will not be able to stump it with the Rachmaninoff Liszt Mozart Bach and Chopin books lying around the general vicinity of my pianoforte. IF YOU want people to pay money to upgrade to play 2 staves at once like concerto accompaniments... you might want to get your app performing ONE staff correctly... firstly. Same advice I give to my..... oh dear... piano students :\ NOT A PIANO TEACHER REPLACEMENT :) Stick with ME long enough, and I will have you humming every note on ANY page you wish to hear using no electricity or apps ON PITCH, any staff ;)


Great product
Dabedaab

This is the best app I’ve ever purchased! It is pure magic! I’ve tried for years, to find a product that does what this one does.No product I’ve ever tried, and I’ve tried a lot, even comes close to what this app does!


This app does not work for exporting Music XML
Pavementaled

It doesn’t matter what I upload, a very high quality JPG, or PDF, or Scan, this app cannot read them. Even with troubleshooting and doing all the steps put forth, the most I get out of 5 page, or even 1 page of composition may get me 2-5 notes played that seem to be chosen at random spacing. Don’t make the mistake that I did, and use the examples as proof that this is going to work for you specifically. Now I am out $22 and can’t seem to get a refund. I’ll be keeping this review up until I do. Do not purchase for MusicXML exporting.


Very inaccurate for pdf
SwiftkeyIsAnnoying

First you have to pay just to test it’s ability to convert from pdf to midi. I should’ve known better. I can’t get this thing to recognize very simple single note songs, I’m talking Mary Had a Little Lamb. The PDFs are I’m using are very high quality. Save your money, this is a scam.


Amazing App
ptheoph

This is an amazing app. I’m no professional musician and recently joined our church choir. They sing (in 5-part harmony) music I am unfamiliar with. Downloaded the PlayScore app and scanned 20 pages of music. Through the apps very user friendly tools I was able to isolate my (bass) part which allowed me to learn it after playing it back a few times. I did have some questions, emailed the app support team and received answers that same day. Customer support is the best I’ve encountered in a long time. Sent the app to our choir directly. After she tried it she encouraged every one in the choir to download and use it. She described it as an invaluable tool. At just over $5 a month it’s something every one can afford. Other music scanning apps cost from $150 to over $500 and are geared for professional musicians. User friendly they are not. Can’t recommend this app enough.


Waste of energy
ebunby

Don’t waste your time on this useless app. It can’t barely pick up any notes from my sheet music! & it’s offbeat, it crashes. So there’s nothing good I could say about this app, besides the fact that it’s deletable.


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