What does an inventory match mean?

What is compared?

A selected part from the master is paired with a separate one-part export using exact measure-number labels. Within each paired measure, the app compares the inventory of pitch/rest and written-duration entries, preserving repeated entries. Unmatched entries appear first; complete inventories remain available.

A matching inventory does not establish event order, onset timing, engraving, articulation, playback behavior or musical correctness. Review the actual music before distribution or performance.

Why are measures missing or extra?

Labels must match exactly. A master label that is absent from the export is missing; an export label absent from the selected master part is extra. The app does not guess how to renumber or align a pickup, inserted bar or differently labeled revision. Repeated measure labels make exact pairing ambiguous and are rejected for comparison.

Which MusicXML files are supported?

Use uncompressed score-partwise XML, up to 15 MiB per file and 100,000 note/rest events. The master can contain multiple declared parts; the performer export must contain exactly one part. Compressed MXL and score-timewise are unsupported.

Pitch alterations must be whole semitones. Encoded durations and divisions must be positive integers; ratios can still represent shorter written notes. For example, duration 1 with divisions 2 represents half a quarter-note beat.

Grace notes, fractional pitch alterations, unpitched percussion, additive/composite time signatures and unmetered time are unsupported. The app reports an unsupported input rather than rounding it into a possible match.

Does it infer clarinet or other transposition?

No. An explicit written-pitch adjustment between −24 and +24 semitones can be applied to the selected master part. Review that value yourself. ScoreCheck does not infer instrument conventions or claim a concert-pitch orchestration check.

Does a saved comparison track my later file edits?

No. The saved comparison retains the master/export bytes used for that check. Reopening verifies those retained bytes and recomputes the result against them. If you revise a separate original file, import that revision and make a new comparison.

Which export contains the source fingerprints?

The comparison CSV includes both source filenames and SHA-256 fingerprints. The measure-audit CSV and structural PDF serve separate purposes. The PDF reports structural findings; it is not an engraved score or a master-to-part comparison PDF.

Can I hear, edit or view the engraved score?

ScoreCheck does not provide notation rendering, playback or score editing. Use your notation application for those tasks. This app is a focused review of encoded part and measure data.

Is the Orchard Session example real repertoire?

No. The screenshots use an original fictional QA example with four parts and deliberately simple pitch patterns. Its measure 6 pitch difference, missing master measure 8 and extra exported measure 9 are intentional. No third-party score is offered for download here.

How do I get help?

Read the comparison and recovery guide or use the company contact page. Share only material you have permission to share.