---
name: "muse-song-convert"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "muse"
version: "4.2.1-1+b2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/muse-song-convert"
---

# muse-song-convert(1)

convert between MusE songfile formats

## NAME

muse-song-convert - convert between MusE songfile formats

## SYNOPSIS

**muse-song-convert *songfile***

## DESCRIPTION

The MIDI Music Editor MusE uses a custom file format to store its song files. This format has changed between MusE versions 0.6 and 0.7 in incompatible ways. The utility **muse-song-convert** is able to convert songfiles from 0.6 to the new 0.7 format, so old songs can be loaded into new versions of MusE. It is not possible to convert a new song back to the old format. To prevent data loss, **muse-song-convert** does not modify the original *songfile*. Instead, it copies and converts the original *songfile* as *songfile*.converted. The process is meant to retain all information in the converted songfile, but may not be perfect in all cases.

## AUTHORS

**muse-song-convert** was written by Robert Jonsson \<rj@spamatica.se\>.

This manual page was written by Daniel Kobras \<kobras@debian.org\> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).