# ScoreStarling > ScoreStarling is an all-in-one AI sheet music assistant. Ask Starling, your music sidekick, for > anything to do with sheet music: write down a recording, video or song link, read sheet music PDFs > and pictures, MIDI, MusicXML and ABC, hear the score against the original, fix, transpose or > arrange it, and export sheet music, numbered notation (jianpu), MIDI, MusicXML or audio. It is in > public beta, in a web workspace and inside AI assistants through a hosted MCP server. ScoreStarling makes editable scores from recordings, videos, links, printed music, score files or notation text. Check the result against its source, edit on a staff, read staff, guitar TAB or jianpu, then export. Product facts checked 2026-10-19. - Name: ScoreStarling (Score + Starling), recalling Mozart’s starling and K. 453. - Chinese brand names: [椋鸟记谱](https://scorestarling.com/zh-hans) (Simplified Chinese) and [椋鳥記譜](https://scorestarling.com/zh-hant) (Traditional Chinese) refer to the same ScoreStarling product. - Access: public beta, open to everyone with Google, Apple or email sign-in. Concurrent scores: 1 on a free account, 5 with Plus. Without an account, see the first 30 seconds free. Signed in, a whole piece is 10 credits, and you can still choose a free 30-second preview first; an account can start about 10 free previews a day, at most 3 of them a band. Without an account, only the 30-second preview is available (no band or Starling). Scores of Plus accounts and of accounts that bought a credit pack in the last 90 days go first in the transcription queue; free scores still run after them, and one that has waited ten minutes joins them in order of arrival. Submitted to the ChatGPT and Claude app directories on October 6, 2026 and in review; until listed, connect by address. - Pricing (scorestarling.com/pricing): one credits wallet; 1 credit is about 1 US cent. A score from a recording of a voice, one instrument or solo piano, or from a sheet music PDF or photo, uses 10 credits a piece: it is transcribed in full, shows its first 30 seconds free, and paying shows the whole. A band recording, each instrument on its own staff (transcribed by our partner Mirelo), uses 30 credits a minute, rounded up to 10 seconds; its free preview makes only the first 30 seconds, then the whole piece is priced. Starling Refine (AI proofreading of a finished transcription, saved as a new version) is free and unlimited with Plus; other accounts get one free try a month. Starling chat uses credits by use, about 1-5 a reply, never more than 10, shown under each reply. Opening the user's own MusicXML, MIDI, Guitar Pro or ABC file, editing and listening are free. Paid tasks start only after the user agrees to the price; failed tasks return credits. Free accounts get 100 free credits a month, granted on its first activity in a month (UTC+8) and expiring at month end. Plus is USD 14.99 a month, or USD 143.88 a year, for 1,000 credits every month and every download format (with a beta code redeemed in the last 30 days, USD 9.99 a month for 12 months, or USD 95.88 for the first year of yearly Plus); packs are USD 4.99 for 200 or USD 19.99 for 1,000 credits (90 days). Purchases happen only on the website; ChatGPT and Claude use the account's credits and show no money prices, plans or checkout links. - Downloads follow the account: every account downloads PDF (staff, guitar TAB and jianpu), page images, parts, text TAB, MP3 and WAV; a free account's pages carry a small watermark, "Made with ScoreStarling". Active Plus or preserved historical download access provides MusicXML/MXL, MIDI, Guitar Pro (.gp5), ABC and MEI, without the watermark. A score opened from the user's own file always downloads in its original format. Previews cannot be downloaded. Every PDF has page numbers. In ChatGPT and Claude, paying for a piece uses existing credits only after the user agrees. - Invitations: every account has an invitation link (scorestarling.com/r/CODE, page /share); when a friend joins with it and finishes a first transcription of a recording, both get 100 credits valid 30 days, for up to 5 friends. A beta code gives 300 credits valid 30 days, one per account. - Recordings: WAV, MP3, FLAC, M4A, OGG, AIFF, video soundtracks, browser recording, public HTTPS file/Drive/Dropbox share links, and links from 19 video and music sites including YouTube, Bilibili, TikTok, Instagram and SoundCloud. Access restrictions can prevent downloads; private, DRM and subscription media is not supported. Uploads up to 95 MiB; WAV, AIFF and FLAC are kept as 320 kbit/s MP3. One instrument or voice and solo piano cover the first 6 minutes (15 with active Plus); Band covers up to 30 minutes with credits and active Plus, 6 without it. Account-specific duration and price are shown before confirmation. - Engines: one instrument or voice uses Spotify's Basic Pitch; solo piano uses Kong and colleagues’ model, both hands and pedal, and estimates bars, pickup and 4/4, 3/4, 6/8 or 12/8. Both run on ScoreStarling's servers and use 10 credits a piece. A band uses our partner Mirelo only when the user chooses it and writes each instrument, drums included, on its own staff and MIDI track; its price in credits is shown before it starts, and its meter is detected or chosen. Tempo is detected or supplied; estimates need review. One instrument or voice writes a detected single-note line on one staff (a chord part keeps its notes) and starts in 4/4. - Written music: Audiveris reads clean printed staff PDFs/pictures (up to 12 PDF pages, 60 MP; 10 credits a piece). MusicXML/MXL, MIDI, ABC and Guitar Pro files (.gp, .gpx, .gp3-.gp5, .gtp; read with MuseScore, keeping their tuning and strings but not a capo) open for free. Paste ABC/MusicXML in the workspace or use remote MCP create_score; up to 30 minutes of playback. MIDI imports write drum tracks on a drum staff and use the first meter. Playback plays repeats once. - Assistant reading: an image-capable assistant can attempt a photo, jianpu or lead-sheet reading, write ABC and create a score via MCP. This depends on the assistant, is not automatic jianpu recognition by Audiveris, and needs source comparison and human review. - Notation: staff is editable; numbered notation (jianpu, 简谱) is read-only from the last saved revision, as 1=key (movable do), 1=C (fixed do, black keys marked) or the melody only. The choice stays with the score across workspace/panel, and Download's PDF follows it. Jianpu PDFs carry supported lyrics, repeats/endings, dynamics, grace notes and key/meter changes. Voices are combined; lyrics/structure follow the leading part. Tuplets of 3, 5 and 7 are written under an arc with their number; a rhythm jianpu cannot write is refused, naming the part and bar. Score playback still plays repeats once. Staff notation uses MuseScore for performance MIDI and Verovio/Leipzig for display; written notation is read as supplied. - Guitar TAB (since October 8, 2026): a guitar, bass or ukulele part shows TAB under its staff or TAB alone (the Staff | TAB | Jianpu switch, or Score settings → Guitar TAB), in the workspace, the chat panel and over MCP. Tunings: standard, drop D, half/whole step down, drop C, DADGAD, open G/D/E, 7-string, 4/5/6-string bass, ukulele and baritone ukulele, or any tuning an assistant names; a capo up to fret 12 (frets count from it). Strings follow MuseScore's rule by default (the highest string, so the lowest fret) or a fewest-hand-shifts plan; a note can move to another string at the same pitch, or take a typed fret, which changes its pitch. Notes no string can play are marked. PDFs and parts print the TAB, MusicXML/MXL carry TAB staves with strings and frets at sounding pitch, and text TAB pastes into a message. Guitar Pro 5 files (.gp5) carry every part, guitars, basses and ukuleles on the strings and frets their TAB shows; they opened in MuseScore 4.7.5 (October 11, 2026) and Guitar Pro 8.1.3 on macOS (October 12, 2026), where a Chinese title or track name shows garbled and repeats play in full, while ScoreStarling plays them once. A file that arrives with TAB staves is read once. No bends, slides, hammer-ons, rhythm slashes or chord diagrams; one tuning and capo per piece. Showing TAB never changes playback or uses credits. - Editing: pitch, duration, rests, chord tones, dynamics, timbre, key, clef, meter, pickups, beaming, titles, transposition and doubling/halving note values with the tempo; assistants can also set note velocity. Operation-specific limits apply. Previews, undo/redo, revisions and anchored comment threads support review. Browser drafts save in the background; this is not fully offline. For single-part recordings, Score settings → Layout rewrites the existing notes as one melody line, one staff with chords or two staves for a piano sound, with an eighth/sixteenth shortest note. One melody line removes extra notes from playback; Undo restores them. Two staves splits only a wide range. This does not run transcription again. - Listening/output: loop and crossfade original vs MIDI synthesis, 128 General MIDI sounds. PDF, pages, parts, MusicXML/MXL, MIDI, ABC, MEI, jianpu PDF, text TAB, MP3/WAV playback renders (Downloads above says which need active Plus). Audio exports are synthesized scores, not separated stems. - Transcribe again: Score settings → Recording makes a new score with any offered choice from a retained recording, keeping the first. Not for notation/sheet music; tempo is detected again. - Starling (October 2026): ScoreStarling's own AI assistant, for every signed-in account, with nothing to install: a chat page (scorestarling.com/agent) and a sidebar beside the open score in the workspace. It uses the same tools as remote MCP under the user's account: it checks and transcribes an attached recording, video, score file or link (asking before anything uses credits), edits, writes TAB or jianpu, makes arrangements as new scores and exports. The page shows each score as the interactive score panel; the sidebar sees the selected bars and the playhead, marks the notes it changed and undoes a whole reply at once. Chats are saved to the account. Each reply uses about 1-5 credits, never more than 10. Its replies can be wrong, so check the score. - Remote MCP: https://mcp.scorestarling.com/mcp over Streamable HTTP, OAuth and dynamic client registration, no API key. ChatGPT has signed in and run tools in real conversations since October 3, 2026, and Claude since October 6; ChatGPT lists ScoreStarling in its plugin directory (October 2026). Codex and other compatible clients have setup guides. Initialization/tool/result guidance and the read-only get_workflow_guide work without native plugin skills. Direct MCP does not install those skills. - MCP Apps: a supporting chat host can show a score panel for selection, conversation and previews; support depends on the client. It has opened in ChatGPT and Claude in testing. - Browser WebMCP Beta: native document-bound tools in the open signed-in workspace, automatically registered where supported; needs a WebMCP-capable browser AND a capable tab agent. Separate from remote MCP/plugin. Reads, selection, typed edits, previews/history, comments, view and saved-revision export links share the session/owner/origin/revision checks. Browser tools expose no service credential; paying for a piece, or a band transcription the user already uploaded, starts only after the user approves its exact credits. Local desktop browser checks exist; hosted-session, universal agent and mobile compatibility are not established. Setup and permissions: https://scorestarling.com/mcp#webmcp - Accuracy: automatic transcription/reading and review are first drafts, not certified scores. Listen or compare with the source and correct before performing or sharing. - Contact: support page; the website publishes no email address. ## Pages - [Home](https://scorestarling.com/): ScoreStarling is an all-in-one AI sheet music assistant. Ask Starling to transcribe a song, read a PDF or photo, add chords, transpose, simplify or arrange it. - [Practical guides](https://scorestarling.com/learn): Practical sheet music guides: turn recordings and PDFs into scores, fix rhythm, match a key, simplify a part and choose an export format. - [Tempo and time signatures](https://scorestarling.com/learn/time-signature-vs-tempo): Learn the difference between BPM, meter and rhythm, count 3/4 versus 6/8, and decide what to check when a transcribed score sounds wrong. - [How to read guitar TAB](https://scorestarling.com/learn/how-to-read-guitar-tab): Read guitar and bass TAB: match each line to a string, play the fret number, and use the staff or rhythmic TAB to count the notes. - [How it works](https://scorestarling.com/how-it-works): Turn a recording, a video, a link or sheet music into a score you can check by ear, fix and export. Without an account, see the first 30 seconds free. Costs and limits. - [MCP connection guide](https://scorestarling.com/mcp): Bring Starling, ScoreStarling's all-in-one AI sheet music assistant, into ChatGPT, Claude or any AI to transcribe, arrange and edit scores in the chat. Setup steps. - [Pricing](https://scorestarling.com/pricing): Pricing for ScoreStarling, the all-in-one AI sheet music assistant: 100 free credits a month, Plus and credit packs. Preview 30 seconds free; a piece is 10 credits. - [FAQ](https://scorestarling.com/faq): ScoreStarling answers: who can use it, recordings, sheet music, numbered notation, exports, WebMCP browser tools, fees and privacy. - [What’s new](https://scorestarling.com/whats-new): New features and improvements in ScoreStarling, newest first: Starling in the workspace, score version history and more. ## Other languages The site is also written in these languages, each page at its English path under the language's code (/zh-hans/pricing, /ja/pricing), and every page names its other languages' copies (hreflang). Traditional Chinese is as written in Taiwan and Hong Kong. A page not yet translated into a language is in English only. - [简体中文](https://scorestarling.com/zh-hans): Simplified Chinese, the pages above, the tools, the help pages and the translated articles. 椋鸟记谱是全能 AI 乐谱助理：扒谱、读 PDF 和照片，再让 Starling 配和弦、移调、改简单或改编，乐谱上的事说一声就行。 - [繁體中文](https://scorestarling.com/zh-hant): Traditional Chinese, the pages above, the tools, the help pages and the translated articles. 椋鳥記譜是全能 AI 樂譜助理：扒譜、讀 PDF 和照片，再讓 Starling 配和弦、移調、改簡單或改編，樂譜上的事說一聲就行。 - [日本語](https://scorestarling.com/ja): Japanese, the pages above, the tools, the help pages and the translated articles. ScoreStarlingはオールインワンのAI楽譜アシスタント。採譜やPDF・写真の読み取りから、コード付け、移調、やさしいアレンジ、編曲までStarlingに頼めます。 - [한국어](https://scorestarling.com/ko): Korean, the pages above, the tools, the help pages and the translated articles. ScoreStarling은 올인원 AI 악보 어시스턴트예요. 채보, PDF·사진 읽기부터 코드 붙이기, 조옮김, 쉽게 고치기, 편곡까지 Starling에게 부탁하세요. - [Español](https://scorestarling.com/es): Spanish, the pages above, the tools, the help pages and the translated articles. ScoreStarling, asistente de partituras con IA todo en uno: pide a Starling transcribir canciones, leer PDF o fotos, añadir acordes, transportar, simplificar y arreglar. - [Français](https://scorestarling.com/fr): French, the pages above, the tools, the help pages and the translated articles. ScoreStarling, assistant de partitions IA tout-en-un : transcrire un morceau, lire PDF ou photo, ajouter des accords, transposer, simplifier et arranger avec Starling. - [Deutsch](https://scorestarling.com/de): German, the pages above, the tools, the help pages and the translated articles. ScoreStarling, All-in-one-KI-Notenassistent: Lass Starling Songs transkribieren, PDFs oder Fotos lesen, Akkorde ergänzen, transponieren, vereinfachen und arrangieren. - [Português](https://scorestarling.com/pt-br): Brazilian Portuguese, the pages above, the tools, the help pages and the translated articles. ScoreStarling, assistente de partituras com IA tudo em um: transcreva músicas, leia PDF ou foto, acrescente acordes, transponha, simplifique e arranje com Starling. ## Tools - [All tools](https://scorestarling.com/tools): every tool and comparison page, listed on one page - [MP3 to sheet music](https://scorestarling.com/mp3-to-sheet-music): Convert an MP3 to sheet music online. Choose what is playing, compare the score with your recording and print. First 30 seconds free. - [YouTube to sheet music](https://scorestarling.com/youtube-to-sheet-music): Paste a YouTube or Bilibili link and get sheet music you can play back, fix and print. The first 30 seconds are free, no account needed. - [Audio to MIDI](https://scorestarling.com/audio-to-midi): Convert an MP3, WAV or video to MIDI and check the notes by ear first. A score uses 10 credits, and the MIDI comes with active Plus. - [AI music transcription](https://scorestarling.com/ai-music-transcription): AI music transcription in your browser: recordings, videos, links and printed music become scores you can hear, fix and export. The first 30 seconds are free. - [AI sheet music editor](https://scorestarling.com/ai-sheet-music-editor): Ask Starling, ScoreStarling's all-in-one AI sheet music assistant, to change a score: select bars, say what you want, see every changed note and undo a whole reply. - [Audio to guitar tab](https://scorestarling.com/audio-to-guitar-tab): Turn a guitar, bass or ukulele recording into staff and TAB in your tuning and capo, with strings and frets you can change. The first 30 seconds are free. - [Audio to jianpu](https://scorestarling.com/audio-to-jianpu): Turn a song, a voice memo or a Bilibili or YouTube link into jianpu, numbered notation, to hear, fix and print. The first 30 seconds are free. - [Audio to MusicXML](https://scorestarling.com/audio-to-musicxml): Convert an MP3 or WAV into a MusicXML file that opens in MuseScore, Dorico, Sibelius or Finale. A score uses 10 credits; MusicXML comes with active Plus. - [Band recording to sheet music](https://scorestarling.com/band-recording-to-sheet-music): Turn a band recording into a full score with a staff for each instrument and a part for each player. 30 credits a minute; the first 30 seconds are free. - [Bass tab from audio](https://scorestarling.com/bass-tab-from-audio): Turn a bass recording or a whole song into TAB for four-, five- or six-string bass. Check it against the recording and download it. The first 30 seconds are free. - [Brass quintet to sheet music](https://scorestarling.com/brass-quintet-to-sheet-music): Turn a brass quintet recording into a score and parts: trumpet in B♭, horn in F, trombone and tuba. 30 credits a minute; the first 30 seconds are free. - [Drum sheet music from audio](https://scorestarling.com/drum-sheet-music-from-audio): Turn a song or a drum take into drum sheet music on a percussion staff, with a part and a MIDI track. 30 credits a minute; the first 30 seconds are free. - [Easy piano sheet music](https://scorestarling.com/easy-piano-sheet-music): Turn a song, a PDF or a score into an easier piano version. Ask in plain words: keep the melody, simplify the left hand, change the key. The original is kept. - [Song to flute sheet music](https://scorestarling.com/flute-sheet-music-from-audio): Turn a flute recording, a hummed tune or a song’s melody into flute sheet music you can hear on a flute, fix and print. The first 30 seconds are free. - [MIDI to sheet music](https://scorestarling.com/midi-to-sheet-music): Open a MIDI file as readable sheet music, hear it, fix the key, rests and notes, then print a PDF. Opening your own MIDI file is free; MusicXML comes with Plus. - [PDF sheet music to MIDI](https://scorestarling.com/pdf-sheet-music-to-midi): Scan a PDF or a clear photo of printed sheet music into a score you can hear and fix, then export MIDI or MusicXML. The first 30 seconds are free. - [Piano audio to sheet music](https://scorestarling.com/piano-audio-to-sheet-music): AI piano transcription for a recording or a YouTube piano video, with both hands, the pedal, bar lines and meter. Free 30-second preview, then 10 credits a piece. - [Sheet music to audio](https://scorestarling.com/sheet-music-to-audio): Play sheet music from a PDF or picture online: hear it as the score follows along, loop a bar, download MP3. Try it free without signing up. - [Sheet music to guitar tab](https://scorestarling.com/sheet-music-to-guitar-tab): Turn a PDF, MusicXML, MIDI or ABC score into guitar TAB under the staff, in your tuning and capo, with strings and frets you can change. Score files open free. - [Sheet music to jianpu](https://scorestarling.com/sheet-music-to-jianpu): Convert staff notation, MusicXML, MIDI or a recording to jianpu (numbered notation), 1 = the key or fixed-do 1 = C, and print the PDF. Score files open free. - [String quartet to sheet music](https://scorestarling.com/string-quartet-to-sheet-music): Turn a string quartet recording into a score and parts, with the viola in alto clef. 30 credits a minute; the first 30 seconds are free. - [Transpose sheet music](https://scorestarling.com/transpose-sheet-music): Transpose sheet music online, hear the new key and print a PDF for free. Score files open free; reading a PDF or photo uses credits. - [Ukulele tab generator](https://scorestarling.com/ukulele-tab-from-audio): Turn a recording or score into ukulele melody TAB. Choose high-G GCEA or baritone DGBE, check the frets and print. First 30 seconds free. - [Video to sheet music](https://scorestarling.com/video-to-sheet-music): Turn a video file into sheet music: a phone video of a performance, a lesson or a screen recording. MP4, MOV or WebM up to 95 MiB. - [Song to violin sheet music](https://scorestarling.com/violin-sheet-music-from-audio): Turn a violin or fiddle recording, a hummed tune or a song’s melody into violin sheet music you can hear on a violin, fix and print. The first 30 seconds are free. - [Voice memo to sheet music](https://scorestarling.com/voice-memo-to-sheet-music): Sing, hum or upload a voice memo and get the melody as sheet music you can hear, fix, transpose and print. The first 30 seconds are free. - [YouTube to guitar tab](https://scorestarling.com/youtube-to-guitar-tab): Paste a link to a guitar video and get staff and TAB you can match to the player’s tuning and capo. The first 30 seconds are free. - [YouTube to MIDI](https://scorestarling.com/youtube-to-midi): Paste a YouTube or Bilibili link and get a MIDI file, after you hear the notes as a score and fix them. The first 30 seconds are free, no account needed. ## Comparisons - [AnthemScore alternatives](https://scorestarling.com/anthemscore-alternatives): AnthemScore is desktop software you buy once. When to keep it, and how ScoreStarling, Songscription and Klangio compare online. Checked October 14, 2026. - [Klangio alternatives](https://scorestarling.com/klangio-alternatives): Replacing Guitar2Tabs, Piano2Notes or Klangio Studio? Compare alternatives for bass and guitar TAB, drum parts, full mixes and editable MIDI. - [Scan2Notes alternative](https://scorestarling.com/scan2notes-alternative): Scan2Notes and ScoreStarling compared from their official sites: what each reads, the free scan, phone photos, exports and where each fits. Checked October 13, 2026. - [ScoreStarling vs Klangio](https://scorestarling.com/scorestarling-vs-klangio): ScoreStarling and Klangio compared from each official site: apps, inputs, exports, free tiers and where each fits better. Checked October 14, 2026. - [ScoreStarling vs Songscription](https://scorestarling.com/scorestarling-vs-songscription): ScoreStarling and Songscription side by side: inputs, exports, free tiers, editing and AI assistants, from each official site, checked October 14, 2026. - [Songscription alternatives](https://scorestarling.com/songscription-alternatives): Compare Songscription alternatives by what happens after transcription: score editing, MIDI, TAB, jianpu, desktop use and AI-assisted changes. - [Yamaha Piano Sheet Converter alternative](https://scorestarling.com/yamaha-piano-sheet-converter-alternative): Yamaha’s desktop piano arrangements and ScoreStarling’s browser scores: workflows, exports and limits. Checked October 19, 2026; no accuracy ranking. ## Free sheet music ## Blog - [All articles](https://scorestarling.com/blog): every article, newest first - [Shipping ScoreStarling to ChatGPT: our 16-day review](https://scorestarling.com/blog/chatgpt-plugin-review-timeline): What we submitted for ScoreStarling's ChatGPT plugin, our 16-day wait, the support exchange, and how we checked that version 1.0.0 was public. - [How to convert PDF sheet music to MusicXML for MuseScore](https://scorestarling.com/blog/pdf-to-musicxml-musescore): Turn a printed PDF score into editable MusicXML, check it against the page, fix a real missing grace note and open it in MuseScore. Files included. - [Sheet music in a different key from the recording? How to match them](https://scorestarling.com/blog/sheet-music-different-key-from-recording): Your score sounds higher or lower than the song. Compare one phrase in both, move the score to the recording’s key, and check it by ear before you practise. - [Starling: an AI sheet music assistant you can check](https://scorestarling.com/blog/starling-sheet-music-assistant): Starling edits scores for every signed-in account. What a request can change, how to check the edit, and the mistakes we still see, as of October 2026. - [Viewers keep asking for the sheet music: how to give it to them](https://scorestarling.com/blog/sheet-music-for-your-viewers): You played a piece on camera and the comments ask for the sheet music. How to turn your own video into a score, check it, and share it without a copyright surprise. - [How to change the key of a song for a singer](https://scorestarling.com/blog/transpose-song-for-singer): A singer asks for the song lower. How to find the key that fits their voice, what moving it does to the key signature and chords, and how to make the change. - [How to avoid awkward page turns in sheet music](https://scorestarling.com/blog/sheet-music-page-turns): A page that ends mid-phrase leaves no hand free to turn. Where to turn, how long a rest you need at your tempo, and how to move the break without changing a note. - [How to practice a hard passage: loop it, slow it, then simplify it](https://scorestarling.com/blog/practice-a-hard-passage): Stuck on four bars of a piece you know? Find the exact spot, loop it, slow down before it, and use a simpler version of only those bars as a stepping stone. - [How to transcribe music by ear, and where software helps](https://scorestarling.com/blog/transcribe-music-by-ear): A step-by-step method for writing down a song you hear: the key, the bass, the melody, the rhythm. Then what a program can draft for you, and what it cannot. - [Which sheet music tool for which job: transcribe, practice, edit](https://scorestarling.com/blog/sheet-music-tools-by-job): No one app does everything with sheet music. Eight tools, from ScoreStarling to MuseScore, compared by the job you need: transcribe, practice or edit. - [Arrange sheet music for any instrument and level with AI](https://scorestarling.com/blog/arrange-sheet-music-for-any-instrument-and-level): How to get a piece arranged for your instrument and grade, with a check that it fits. We tested 19 requests and show the real before-and-after scores. - [Can ChatGPT read sheet music?](https://scorestarling.com/blog/can-chatgpt-read-sheet-music): We scored seven ChatGPT models note by note. On a clean PDF the best missed 1–2 of 101 notes, the weakest about 90. The app’s MIDI file kept its mistakes. - [How to fix an AI music transcription](https://scorestarling.com/blog/fix-ai-music-transcription): Ghost octaves, the wrong key, the wrong meter: what each transcription error looks like, how to check a draft by ear, and what an AI pass fixed in our tests. - [How to get piano sheet music for any song, then make it easier](https://scorestarling.com/blog/piano-sheet-music-for-any-song): No sheet music for a song? Transcribe it from a YouTube link, fix the draft with one request, then ask for an easier version. A real example, step by step. - [How to simplify piano sheet music for adult students, without losing the melody](https://scorestarling.com/blog/how-to-simplify-piano-sheet-music): Keep the melody, thin everything around it. A teacher’s five steps for making a piece an adult student loves playable now, with a real before and after. - [Can an AI assistant edit sheet music for you?](https://scorestarling.com/blog/ai-assistant-edit-sheet-music): A chat request changes a score only when a tool saves the edit. Check the marked notes, the saved version and playback to see what Starling actually did. - [When our music agent said it changed a clef it never touched](https://scorestarling.com/blog/ai-agent-claims-edits-it-did-not-make): Our assistant told a user it had fixed a clef that was unchanged. The tool had said Applied. What we changed in tool results, reads and rules, October 10, 2026. - [How guitar TAB chooses strings and frets](https://scorestarling.com/blog/guitar-tab-strings-and-frets): One pitch can sit on up to six strings. How notation apps choose, when the lowest-fret rule reads badly, and why a TAB file can come out an octave high. - [Does MP3 hurt music transcription? We measured WAV vs MP3](https://scorestarling.com/blog/mp3-vs-wav-music-transcription): Three transcription engines, the same recordings as WAV, MP3 and AAC. At 320 kbit/s, MP3 moved onset F1 by at most 0.002 and kept every file’s length. - [Our MCP App in ChatGPT on mobile: what we learned](https://scorestarling.com/blog/mcp-app-chatgpt-mobile): On a phone, ChatGPT counted its message box in a bottom inset of about 127 px and rebuilt our MCP App from old results. Four bugs, fixes and tests that catch them. - [Can ChatGPT or Claude turn a recording into sheet music?](https://scorestarling.com/blog/chatgpt-claude-sheet-music): Connect ScoreStarling to ChatGPT or Claude to turn a recording into an editable score. Preview a transposition, check the result and export from the chat. - [How accurate is AI music transcription? We measured it](https://scorestarling.com/blog/ai-music-transcription-accuracy): We scored two audio-to-MIDI engines on 12 guitar recordings and a band excerpt. What onset F1 means, what they scored, and what the numbers leave out. - [Why MIDI imports look messy in MuseScore, and how to fix them](https://scorestarling.com/blog/why-midi-imports-look-messy): A guitar MIDI can turn into dozens of tiny rests in MuseScore. Our 12-recording test shows which settings and note edits improve the score. - [How to turn a voice memo into sheet music](https://scorestarling.com/blog/voice-memo-to-sheet-music): Record one clear line at a known tempo, export the memo from your iPhone or Android phone, and check the draft by ear. Turn a voice memo into sheet music. - [MCP servers for sheet music: what each one does](https://scorestarling.com/blog/sheet-music-mcp-servers): We opened 27 sheet music MCP servers in October 2026: recording to score, rendering notation, MuseScore and Dorico control, music21 analysis. - [MusicXML vs MIDI vs PDF: which file do you need?](https://scorestarling.com/blog/musicxml-vs-midi-vs-pdf): Choose MusicXML to keep notation editable, MIDI to move the performance into a DAW, or PDF to print. Compressed .mxl keeps the same score as .musicxml. - [Remote MCP server OAuth: what we learned shipping it](https://scorestarling.com/blog/remote-mcp-server-oauth): How our hosted MCP server signs people in with OAuth 2.1 and Supabase Auth: the 401 challenge, RFC 9728 metadata, client registration, token audience, refresh. - [Where should an MCP server live? We checked 33 addresses](https://scorestarling.com/blog/mcp-server-url): We probed 33 public MCP endpoints on October 2, 2026. 14 of the 22 services that asked for sign-in used mcp./mcp. How we chose ours and moved it. - [Mozart’s starling: the bird behind our name](https://scorestarling.com/blog/mozart-starling): On May 27, 1784, Mozart paid 34 kreuzer for a starling that sang his new K. 453 finale theme, adding a pause and a G sharp. We checked the record. ## Help and policies - [Help center](https://scorestarling.com/support): Answers about ScoreStarling: getting access, recordings and accuracy, editing scores, exports, MCP in ChatGPT and Claude, your account and how to contact support. - [How credits work](https://scorestarling.com/credits): How ScoreStarling credits work: 10 credits a piece, 30 a minute for a band, Starling by use, and an optional free 30-second preview. - [Privacy policy](https://scorestarling.com/privacy): How ScoreStarling handles accounts, Google sign-in, audio, scores, storage, analytics and deletion requests. - [Terms](https://scorestarling.com/terms): The terms for using ScoreStarling: the operator, accounts and usage, audio processing and optional providers, content, exports and fair use. ## Official profiles - [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@scorestarling) - [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/scorestarling/) - [Pinterest](https://www.pinterest.com/scorestarling/) - [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@scorestarling) - [X](https://x.com/scorestarling) - [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/scorestarling) - [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/user/ScoreStarling/) - [Trustpilot](https://www.trustpilot.com/review/scorestarling.com) - [Xiaohongshu](https://www.xiaohongshu.com/user/profile/6a6aec7c000000000d034c05) ## Official sheet music stores These are ScoreStarling's sheet music seller profiles, separate from the AI transcription and notation tool at https://scorestarling.com/. - [MyMusic5](https://www.mymusic5.com/scorestarling) - [Kokomu](https://www.kokomu.jp/artist/scorestarling) - [Mapianist](https://www.mapianist.com/profile/1428999/sheet/post) ## Optional - [Full text of the pages and articles](https://scorestarling.com/llms-full.txt): one Markdown file for language models - [Blog RSS feed](https://scorestarling.com/blog/feed.xml): every article in full - [MCP server](https://mcp.scorestarling.com/mcp): the endpoint MCP clients connect to; people should start at the guide - [Install steps for AI assistants](https://scorestarling.com/install.md): how an assistant adds ScoreStarling to itself, client by client