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 "id": "sibelius",
 "name": "Sibelius",
 "family": "sibelius-score-file-format-family",
 "category": "audio",
 "identifiers": {
  "extensions": [
   "sib",
   "si7"
  ],
  "puid": [
   "fmt/696",
   "fmt/1978",
   "fmt/1979",
   "fmt/1980",
   "fmt/1981",
   "fmt/1982",
   "fmt/1983",
   "fmt/1984",
   "fmt/1985",
   "fmt/1986",
   "fmt/1987",
   "fmt/1988",
   "fmt/1989",
   "fmt/1990",
   "fmt/1991",
   "fmt/1992",
   "fmt/1993"
  ],
  "wikidata": [
   "Q27967347"
  ],
  "magic": [
   {
    "offset": 0,
    "hex": "0f534942454c495553",
    "notes": "Sibelius"
   }
  ],
  "signatures": [
   {
    "name": "Sibelius",
    "sequences": [
     {
      "position": "bof",
      "offset": 0,
      "pattern": "0f534942454c495553"
     }
    ]
   }
  ],
  "loc_fdd": [
   "fdd000609"
  ]
 },
 "status": "unknown",
 "summary": "Sibelius is a WYSIWYG scorewriter program, created by Sibelius Software (now part of Avid Technology) for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and historically RISC OS. It is used by composers, arrangers, performers, music publishers, teachers and students, particularly for writing classical, jazz, band, vocal, film and television music.",
 "tools": [
  {
   "name": "Sibelius",
   "url": "https://www.avid.com/sibelius",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true,
   "license": "proprietary license"
  },
  {
   "name": "Sibelius First",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122023473",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true
  },
  {
   "name": "PhotoRec",
   "url": "http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "GNU General Public License",
   "open_source": true,
   "via": "sibelius-score-file-format-family"
  }
 ],
 "projects": [
  {
   "name": "File Formats Wiki",
   "url": "http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Sibelius",
   "kind": "wiki"
  },
  {
   "name": "PRONOM fmt/696",
   "url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/fmt/696",
   "kind": "format-doc"
  },
  {
   "name": "Wikidata Q27967347",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27967347",
   "kind": "wiki"
  }
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "sources": [
   "ffw",
   "pronom",
   "wikidata"
  ]
 },
 "updated": "2026-10-24",
 "aliases": [],
 "structure": [],
 "parsers": [],
 "conversions": [],
 "samples": [],
 "claims": [],
 "verification": []
}