Project properties

Overview

The Project Properties dialog contains metadata tags, editable descriptive digital data of the file. Every score created with Musescore 4 contains the following predefined metadata tags. Some of them are automatically assigned with information provided by user in the New Score dialog, see Setting up your score chapter.

Note:

• Score created from certain template contains a top vertical frame and Musescore Text objects on the first page. These objects, such as Title, Subtitle etc, are also automatically assigned with information provided by user in the New Score dialog, but they are not related to metadata tags, see Entering and editing text chapter.

• The originalFormat, and poet metadata tags are automatically created in score created with previous versions of Musescore, but no longer so in Musescore 4.

• Project Properties is formerly Score properties.

Changing Project properties

To change a Project property (metadata tag),

1. From the menu, choose File→Project Properties...

2. Edit the desired tag

Adding and deleting new project properties

To add a new custom metadata tag, click on the New button. Fill in the "New tag name" field and press OK;

To delete a tag click on the trashcan symbol. Predefined metadata tags cannot be deleted.

Accessing project properties in a score

The only place to add project properties (metadata tags) on to a score is by referring them in header or footer, see Header and footer chapter.