

It is a lossy format that supports various different bitrate settings. All of these compression levels are lossless, but the higher compression levels use more CPU to encode and slightly more to decode in order to represent the exact same data in less space. FLAC provides compression levels from L0 (little to no compression) to L8 (maximum compression). As it is lossless, there is no loss of audio fidelity during conversion to and from this format, unlike in formats such as Ogg Vorbis and MP3. Note, also, that in the latest version of most known operating systems (Windows, Linux, Macintosh) there are pre-installed applications with which you can open ZIP files (Windows XP and up have WinZip installed, in Linux there is Ark and 7-Zip etc).įLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. ZipIt - ZipIt is an application for Macintosh with which you can extract/create ZIP files.


ly, etc.) may be uploaded if archived in a single ZIP. MSCZ is the native file format for MuseScore. Because different notation software may render MusicXML slightly differently, the official rendering standard on IMSLP is the open-source MuseScore notation software. that is supported by a number of music notation softwares, including MuseScore, Finale and Sibelius.

Raw image files, whether loose or ZIPped, will be removed.Ĭompressed MusicXML (MXL) is an open-specification music typeset format developed by MakeMusic, Inc. These are the only file formats IMSLP accepts for scores.
