Guides for music librarians
Practical knowledge about digitising your sheet music library: scanning, sorting, assigning parts and going live – whichever software you end up using.
Digitising a sheet music library rarely fails because of the software. It fails on the questions that come first: what resolution should you scan at? What do you do with A3 sheets? Who assigns the parts, and how long does that take? These guides answer exactly those questions – from practice, vendor-neutral, and without assuming you use Notenarchiv.
Bringing your existing sheet music archive: the move, step by step
Excel list, folder full of PDFs, ZIP or member list: how the import assistant takes over your existing archive, with a preview, a full log and a way back.
Read the guide →Digitising sheet music: a guide for bands and orchestras
From a paper library to a digital collection – how to plan, scan, name, assign and roll out in your ensemble without the project stalling halfway.
Read the guide →Scanning sheet music: resolution, format and settings
Which dpi, colour or greyscale, which file format? The scanner settings that work for sheet music – plus A3, stapled editions and phone scans.
Read the guide →Splitting combined PDFs and A3 pages
The scanner put every part into one file, or read A3 sheets sideways? How to break that into clean individual parts in the browser, with no PDF software.
Read the guide →Downloading parts: combined PDF, ZIP or single part
Which download format fits when – and how saved instrumentations let you build a combined PDF that contains exactly the copies your rehearsal needs.
Read the guide →Sheet music offline: rehearsals and gigs without signal
How the Notenarchiv app keeps your parts ready offline – automatically before every event, via rules, as a Stage Mode setlist or for individual pieces.
Read the guide →Importing several scores into forScore at once
How a complete part from a music book travels into forScore in a single pass: straight from the Notenarchiv app, or via forScore's own import window.
Read the guide →Setting up a passkey: sign in with fingerprint, Face ID or PIN
Step by step to your Notenarchiv passkey on Android, iPhone, iPad, Mac and Windows, in the browser and in the app. Plus help for when something goes wrong.
Read the guide →Marching with an e-ink tablet: all your sheet music in one place
March book, concert and dance music on one Android e-ink tablet – readable in the sun, locked against your thumb, the next piece arrives over Bluetooth.
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