PlayScore alternative
PlayScore 2 is a mobile app for reading and playing sheet music. StaveWave is an online conversion service: upload a score in any browser, review every flagged bar, and export editable MusicXML.
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PlayScore 2 is a mobile app you install on a phone or tablet. StaveWave is an online service that opens in any browser — Mac, Windows, Linux, iPad, or Chromebook — with nothing to install and the same job reachable from every device.
The deliverable is standard MusicXML you can open in Sibelius, Dorico, MuseScore, or Finale, with MXL and MIDI alongside. Playback is a way to hear rhythm mistakes during review, not the end of the job.
Independent recognition engines read the page, and every uncertain measure is flagged against the ink on your original. Findings are grouped by cause, so you know exactly what to check before the file reaches your notation app.
Processing stack
StaveWave shows the recognition engines, specialist passes, validation checks, and quality gates involved so users can see what checked the score before trusting the MusicXML.
Recognition passes
StaveWave compares independent readings of the notation and keeps disagreements visible instead of treating one reading as automatically correct.
Review checks
Visual, corpus, and notation checks inspect weak spots, compare the original scan against the rendered transcription, and flag suspicious measures or suggested fixes.
Specialist checks
Focused passes review pitch, rhythm, text, structure, articulation, and style so the output needs less cleanup in Sibelius, Dorico, MuseScore, Finale, or another editor.
Quality gates
Validation, consensus, visual comparison, audio checks, plausibility scoring, and audit evidence must run. If a required component fails, the job reports a blocking error.
Workflow
Submit a PDF, PNG, JPG, WEBP, or TIFF file up to 100 MB and 50 pages, straight from the browser.
Review flagged measures, grouped by cause, with the evidence pointed at on your original page.
Export standard MusicXML, compressed MXL, and MIDI for Sibelius, Dorico, MuseScore, Finale, or any standard notation app.
Questions
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No. StaveWave is an online service that runs in the browser on Mac, Windows, Linux, iPad, and Chromebook. There is nothing to install and nothing to keep updated.
Yes, if the lighting is even and the page is flat. Shoot straight-on with good contrast. The score check flags any measures where image quality affected recognition.
A different approach: it runs online in the browser rather than as an installed app, and it is organised around reviewing and exporting editable MusicXML rather than reading and playing the page.
Standard MusicXML, compressed MusicXML (.mxl), and MIDI on the results page, plus an engraved print-ready PDF through the engraving service.
Yes. The service runs in the browser, so an iPad or Android tablet can upload a score and walk the score check with no app to install.
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