webmscore

webmscore

MuseScore's libmscore (the core library) in WebAssembly!

Features

• Parse mscz file data
• Get score metadata
• Export part score
• Generate music sheets in SVG/PNG/PDF formats
• Generate MIDI
• Generate audio files in WAV, OGG, or FLAC formats
• Synthesize raw audio frames, can be used in the Web Audio API
• Export as MusicXML compressed/uncompressed
• Generate position information of measures or segments on the generated sheets
• Run inside a Web Worker thread

Installation

The package is available on npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/webmscore

npm i webmscore

Use webmscore

Load in browsers

<!-- using a CDN -->
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/webmscore/webmscore.js"></script>
<script>
    WebMscore.ready.then(async () => {
        const score = await WebMscore.load('mscz', msczdata)
    })
</script>

For latest browsers which support ES Modules

import WebMscore from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/webmscore/webmscore.mjs'

Run in Node.js directly

Minimum version: v8.9.0 with ES Modules support

The --experimental-modules flag is required for Node.js versions under 14,
Also require "type": "module" in package.json

import WebMscore from 'webmscore'
WebMscore.ready.then(async () => {
    const score = await WebMscore.load('mscz', msczdata)
})

Use a JavaScript bundler

(TBD)

Load extra fonts

If your score sheet contains characters out of the range of the bundled FreeFont, those characters will be shown as tofu characters (□ or �) in SVG/PNG/PDF files. Loading extra fonts is required.

webmscore can load any font format supported by FreeType.

const score = await WebMscore.load('mscz', msczdata, [...arrOfFontData])

CJK fonts are no longer bundled inside webmscore since v0.6.0

Load soundfont files

Loading a soudfont (sf2/sf3) file is required before generating/synthesizing audio.

await score.setSoundFont(soudfontData)

Soudfonts can be found on musescore.org website.

Example: (FluidR3Mono_GM.sf3)

const soudfontData = new Uint8Array(
    await (
        await fetch('https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/musescore/MuseScore@2.1/share/sound/FluidR3Mono_GM.sf3')
    ).arrayBuffer()
)

Boost Mode

Sometimes you only want to process a bunch of score metadata, so drawing sheet images internally is a waste of time and system resource.

You can enable the Boost Mode by setting the doLayout parameter in WebMscore.load to false.

Example:

const score = await WebMscore.load('mscz', msczdata, [], false)
const metadata = await score.metadata()
score.destroy()

webmscore's Boost Mode is about 3x faster than the batch converter feature (-j) of the musescore software, according to the benchmark result.

WebAssembly vs native C++ program!

Note:

Important!

Copy webmscore.lib.data and webmscore.lib.wasm to your artifact dir (the same directory as your final js bundle).

Compiling

1. Install essential tools like make, cmake, llvm, etc.

2. Install emscripten using emsdk https://emscripten.org/docs/getting_started/downloads.html

3. Get and compile Qt5 for WebAssembly

CPUS=$(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN 2>/dev/null || getconf NPROCESSORS_ONLN 2>/dev/null || 8)

QT_PATH=/usr/qt515/
# If you want to use other directory, make sure you changed `PREFIX_PATH` to your Qt5WASM installation dir in the Makefile

git clone git://code.qt.io/qt/qt5.git --depth=1 -b 5.15.0 $QT_PATH
# or
# download and extract qt-everywhere 5.15.0 (https://download.qt.io/official_releases/qt/5.15/5.15.0/single/)

cd $QT_PATH
./configure -xplatform wasm-emscripten -nomake examples -prefix $PWD/qtbase
make -j$CPUS

1. Checkout submodules

git submodule init
git submodule update

1. Compile webmscore

make release

Build artifacts are in the web-public directory

Browser Support

All modern browsers which support WebAssembly and Async Functions

Name	Minimum Version
Chrome	57
Firefox	53, 52 (non-ESR)
Edge	16 (Fall Creators Update)
Safari	11
IE	NO!
Other browsers	I don't know!

Only tested on the latest version of Chrome and Firefox.

Examples

see files in the web-example directory

cd ./web-example
npm i
npm start  # Node.js example
npm run start:browser  # browser example

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webmscore is part of the LibreScore project.