Reviews for PlayScore2 needs hi-end camera

I am beginning piano student and after using Playscore2 for a few months now the app has been working very well for me. Since I also use Musescore, Playscore2 has been a tremendous tool for importing into Musescore via xml. Not always perfect but works well for me overall. Also note that if you email the developer you will get a response within a reasonable time; thanks for that! Note for usage: good camera and lighting makes a difference for the OCR. UPDATE 1 YEAR LATER...Very pleased to renew!

Should at least have a trial version of import and export so you can see how well it works before purchasing. I have zero problems buying something but lack of a trial just seems cheap and risky. At least just one import, one export. Perhaps they dont know how to set that up. I think its really holding you back from sales.

I used this app to help prep for vocal auditions by having it play my accompaniment. It was very easy to scan the sheet music, and the ability to adjust the tempo and even which parts/ instruments play was extremely useful. My only complaint is that I would have liked to try it out and see how it worked before committing to paying, but it worked out just fine in the end.

Kinda sucks, I take a picture of the music perfectly and it still plays the rhythms wrong... Also have you tried maybe adding more instrument sounds?? Like drums? That would make this app better, but still it won't read the music right. And don't try to blame my phone because I checked the picture and it looked perfectly readable, it's just your app not being able to read the music.

Update: I subscribed for the ability to import multiple pages from pdf. Really nice feature and the score files are smaller which my crowded phone is happy with! What I wrote earlier: I'm using the free version and have had great success snapping photos of sheet music and playing it back. I'm using it to help me learn new piano pieces by isolating one hand or the other to listen as I read the music. Will probably subscribe to full version.

Worked right away and so well I was so surprised... The only problem is I needed an app that would help me remember how to read it. I read sheet music but I'm way out of practice and it would take me hours to decipher each line and I was hoping that maybe this app would label the notes so I could learn them again... Sadly I don't play by ear yet. But it's primary function worked really well.

This app is amazing! It really comes in handy when I am struggling with difficult pieces and I cannot find a recording online. The process is really quick, and on top of that, the app is free and there are no ads. It's not perfect, because sometimes it misses dynamic markings or accidentals, but it definitely helps you get a feel for the music. Highly recommend!

Need to be able to try before I buy. Can't give a good review when I can't use the app. I have a pretty simple set of piano sheet music I wanted to try this app out on, but they restrict you from even processing your photo if your music is over 4 staves. I'm sorry but I'm not going to pay for a subscription when I can't even tell how accurate the program is going to be. I should at least be able to process a single page, listen to the result, but not be able to save it. I've immediately started looking elsewhere for something similar.

The most simple thing you can't do simply import a pdf of sheet music ( Which is the most logical way to use it if you have existing sheetmusic) , When you try, It says you need a 12 months subscription to do it. For anyone out there that wants to do that Smartscore 64 is the way to go. With it you can watch the music, play along; or export to a player midi file for your favorite player or or composition software. Playscore for any sort of real use like that is... useless. Then their answer cheap to subscribe...misses the point on purpose to rip people off potentially. I am simply saying give a REAL trial mode with all import features just no save ones.

I never review apps but this one is absolutely incredible. I have always had a habit of playing by ear and I'm horrible at sight reading. Being able to hear any piece of sheet music is a game changer for me and has made practicing infinitely more enjoyable (as now I know I'm not practicing something incorrectly between lessons, only to have to re-learn the correct way later)

Wow this app is gr8! Assuming you have an okay camera this app works perfectly fine. Some sheet music I've been unable to find to listen to online, so this app works gr8 just to get a feel for the music. I have a clip on book light that I attached to my phone, since it doesn't let you use flash, which helps with lighting. I love that it IS free if all you're needing to do it take pictures, not upload them.

Overall it's a really solid app and it's a lot more user friendly than other softwares that scan sheet music. I love that on the android version you can adjust settings to make the scan play better, however I do wish there was an option to fix individual bars when they don't play correctly, as opposed to re-scanning and adjusting the entire piece of music. There's usually a problem with initial scans but this is a very useful app and I would love to see future improvements!

I'm extremely impressed with the app. Of course even after taking a bright evenly lit photo, it still makes mistakes. Some notable ones, playing four quarter notes in one bar as a triplet and skipping the fourth note. Missing notes in runs, adding unnecessary swing, and some other general issues. However for being a free service, this is great for grasping a hold of what you're trying to read.

It's a great tool, but it's glitches. The music doesn't get picked up perfectly so I have to transfer to an engraving software and export the xml into playscore to fix the problem. Labor intensive but once it works, it's a great tool for learning. What I like, it being able to silence, lower the volume and change the instrument playback for each part. Edited to add: I have a high-end camera. The scanner that malfunctions is in the app. Sometimes pdfs work, but engraving software always works.

This app is terrible. I take very good photos, but the app doesn't play it correctly, constantly misses notes entirely. it just plain doesn't work. If I have to try 3 or 4 or more times to get the picture "just right" enough for the app to work, then yes it's the app's fault! I also was hoping it could isolate full SATB, but it can only isolate the entire staff. The ONLY way to make it work well is to purchase the subscription plan so I can scan the music to PDF and then import it, then it works

I could not believe this works. I saw someone reviewing on YouTube and thought no way an app could do what they were saying. I began scanning all types of music, none were ideal at all. A second after taking the picture, you could play the music, and I was stunned with the accuracy. This was the free version. If multiple staves, 1 for voice, and 2 others for accompaniment, it struggeles. The guitar worked for 3 a few measures then sounded like a piano. Paid may work better with better scans

It's frustrating but the free version is better than nothing, & it is truly free. What is frustrating is that the pic has to be perfect. I mean, the score your taking a pic of has to be perfect - no shadows, no no wrinkles, no waves - as in completely flat, which is about impossible to do w/ a brand new score, etc. else it skips notes, plays wrong notes. No way to correct those notes but to take another pic. Or pay for the subscription I'm sure. It'll do in a pinch.

It works really well but is also heavily dependent on image quality. For the picture each staff must be perfectly within the grid shown on the camera. To be able to get better processing quality take a picture staff by staff for it to read perfectly. I recommend an update that would be able to adjust how many staffs are to be read per photo and how wide or narrow each staff size is. Thus allowing one to take a clearer photo that is easier for the program to process.

I had a great experience with this app. I did not run into issues with my camera because I would take a photo and convert it into a pdf with the "Tiny Scanner" app. The scanner app makes it so that, if your picture is at a skewed angle, you can essentially make the image appear flat. Play score, you might consider adding a similar feature so that people can adjust the angles of their photos.

This has been a life saver! it's been 20 years since I've sight sung and I can't keep up with my choir! This has helped me practice on my own time. It's not perfect, but you can control the speed, you can repeat one measure over and over and over, you can silence other staffs to hear your own. it's great! I have a Samsung 10, with a great amount of light it captures the music almost perfectly!