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Life & fun · April 10, 2019

Scan Sheet music and play it from your phone

PlayScore 2 takes traditional music scanning to the next level. Using the latest techniques in Optical Music Recognition (OCR for music).

Scan Sheet music and play it from your phone launched on April 10, 2019 with 12 votes, #957 of 3,128 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.

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PlayScore is a mobile application that scans sheet music and plays back the notation through a phone. Launched in 2019, it enables musicians and music students to capture printed sheet music with their device's camera and hear the music performed. The app is designed for anyone who wants to quickly audition sheet music or verify written musical passages without needing an instrument.

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The PlayScore 2 sheet music scanner takes traditional sheet music scanning to the next level, using the latest techniques in Optical Music Recognition. PlayScore 2 understands all the symbols of standard music notation and can play all kinds of sheet music and scores. PlayScore 2 can read scores with systems of many staffs such as SATB vocal scores and chamber music as well as piano music and songs. Mute any combination of staves. Listen to any combination of parts. Play whole PDF scores and export as MusicXML. The ideal app for music teachers because using PlayScore 2 , music students can hear assignments at home as they should sound, whatever the instrument. The ideal practice…from playscore.co

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