MusicXML

Writable

audio

MusicXML is an XML based format, it was designed for sharing sheet music files between applications, and for archiving sheet music files for use in the future.

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Extensions	`.xml.musicxml.mxl`
MIME types	`application/vnd.recordare.musicxml+xml`
Signatures	`3c3f786d6c2076657273696f6e3d` at byte 0 (Music XML)
PRONOM	`fmt/896`
Wikidata	`Q653301`
Library of Congress	`fdd000358`

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AudiverisOpen sourcewrites · GNU General Public License
Impro-VisorOpen sourcewrites · GNU General Public License
NoteEditOpen sourcereads and writes · GNU General Public License
Q240192Open sourcereads and writes · GNU General Public License, version 3.0
MusiXTeXOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later
NtEdOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License, version 2.0 or later
SinsyOpen sourcereads · BSD licenses
VerovioOpen sourcereads · GNU Lesser General Public License
Fortereads and writes
JFuguereads and writes
Ludwig 3writes
Notionreads and writes
Overturewrites
PhotoScore Litewrites
Braille Music Notatorreads
Cakewalk Sonarreads · proprietary license
Cubasereads · proprietary license
Digital Performerreads
Doricoreads · proprietary license
Finalereads · shareware
International Music Score Library Projectreads · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Logic Proreads · proprietary license
Newzikreads
Sibeliusreads · proprietary license
Sibelius Firstreads
SmartScorereads
TablEdit Tablature Editorreads

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Sources

From Just Solve the File Format Problem (File Formats Wiki), PRONOM, Wikidata. Updated 2026-10-24.

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