MEI encoding

[user19823]

What is the current recommendations about uploading score sources in MEI format?

I understand that it has not been an user friendly format for a long time but, for example, support in MuseScore is already decent for import/export.

My current editing workflow is 1) raw quick transcription in MuseScore, 2) Export raw score to MEI, 3) Work on the MEI file for corrections, editorial notes, etc... 4) Publish pdf and web versions from the MEI. So at the end that MEI file is my final source. If if convert it back to MusicXML all the critical notes, information about original clefs, corrections, etc... is lost. However I understand that all that information is relevant to me or to people doing critical editions of the same music, but maybe is not that important for the most common use cases of CPDL users.

Maybe an option could be uploading the MEI file and a MusicXML version that could be easily opened by anyone.

[Claude_T]

From which software comes the MEI file?
Yes, please add an MXL file to your Pdfs, as they're useable by most of our users.