Submissions General Questions, Comments, etc

[Sebastian]

I'll see how I can contribute piano arrangements in the future!

Awesome! If you ever need any help, just throw me a pm!

[Oronoco]

I've been getting along fine with the NSM Panel, except that it has never accepted my MUSX files. Not from Day One. When I try, it says that I did not upload a MUSX file. Everything else has been working.

Does anyone know if there's a silly mistake I'm making?  I use my MUSX files to create all my other files, so it surprises me that the MUSX would be the one to have problems uploading. I have them, so I'd like to include them!

[Zunawe]

I've managed to upload every musx file I've submitted with no issues.

[braix]

I've also never had issues with it

[Olimar12345]

I've been getting along fine with the NSM Panel, except that it has never accepted my MUSX files. Not from Day One. When I try, it says that I did not upload a MUSX file. Everything else has been working.

Does anyone know if there's a silly mistake I'm making?  I use my MUSX files to create all my other files, so it surprises me that the MUSX would be the one to have problems uploading. I have them, so I'd like to include them!

Are you putting it in the correct place? There is a separate spot for both MUS and MUSX files. While MUS files are mandatory, MUSX files are not.

[Oronoco]

Are you putting it in the correct place? There is a separate spot for both MUS and MUSX files. While MUS files are mandatory, MUSX files are not.

I'll be sure to double-check next time. I'm going to try some other things, too, like uploading the file to the Panel from my Dropbox.

Thank you!

[YuichiTuba]

Sorry to trouble you guys with a noob question but I've been looking around this site for a while and can't find this image when trying to submit under the Miscellaneous section:



Can you help me how I can submit my brass quintet and woodwind quartet arrangement?
Thanks a bunch!

[AwesomeYears]

You don't need to use the NSM panel to submit your Miscellaneous Arrangements. Just make a new topic under that Sub board and post some Dropbox links to it and wallah!

[Olimar12345]

We only accept piano solos onto the main site.

[YuichiTuba]

You don't need to use the NSM panel to submit your Miscellaneous Arrangements. Just make a new topic under that Sub board and post some Dropbox links to it and wallah!

Thanks so much! Once I submit these to the Miscellaneous Arrangements section, I'd like to start doing piano arrangements as well.
Cheers!

[braix]

Just remember that those aren't able to get on the main site

[Olimar12345]

2nd page title is just a Finale default. It's not mandatory. Looking at the majority of published sheet music both modern and classical, I would say NSM is in the minority for favoring this practice.

Being a finale default is not a bad thing. Second+ page titles have always been mandatory, as seen by literally every sheet accepted since quality controls have been in place. It has been a sort of blanket policy, common-sense sort of rule. And ofc. You won't find second+ page titles on works published in a book, because they're bound.

The second page title isn't mentioned in the style guide though...I'm sure I've submitted sheets that lack it.

Since it is in question, I will add it to the guidelines. Later I will go through the onsite pieces and add them in.

[Olimar12345]

Double post. The Formatting Guidelines have been updated to include the material mentioned above. In addition, I have expanded upon the "finale defaults" section for those of you who needed it in writing.

[zorori]

The answer to this question is probably obvious, but is access to full Finale software a requirement for submission?  Based on the fact that a .mus file is required for arrangement submission, I am assuming that access to the full version of Finale software is required to submit any scores to this site.  I could not find this requirement explicitly stated anywhere, but it seems like it is an implicit requirement.

I.e., I can write arrangements in Sibelius 7 (the only annotation SW that I have access to).  But there is no way I know of to convert a .sib score into .mus format unless one owns a copy of Finale.

Just double-checking before I give up completely.  Thanks.

[mastersuperfan]

The answer to this question is probably obvious, but is access to full Finale software a requirement for submission?  Based on the fact that a .mus file is required for arrangement submission, I am assuming that access to the full version of Finale software is required to submit any scores to this site.  I could not find this requirement explicitly stated anywhere, but it seems like it is an implicit requirement.

I.e., I can write arrangements in Sibelius 7 (the only annotation SW that I have access to).  But there is no way I know of to convert a .sib score into .mus format unless one owns a copy of Finale.

Just double-checking before I give up completely.  Thanks.

You can download Finale Notepad... Even though it's a pain to use.

I think that it'll be okay with another notation program; it'll just be a bit more of a hassle to get them accepted onto the site. I'm pretty sure there's an arranger or two in the community that doesn't use Finale. Then again, I don't know how that actually works.