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Get a score into OmniPiano.

Importing starts with a file on your phone or tablet — and the file is almost always somewhere else: a laptop, an email, a page in Safari. Here is each way across, and what the app can read today.

The short version

Two steps, whichever route you take:

  1. Get the file into the Files app — by AirDrop, from an email, out of Safari, or through iCloud Drive, Dropbox or Google Drive. Anywhere in Files will do.
  2. In OmniPiano, open Your music and tap Import a score. The picker that opens is the Files browser: it reaches everything above, not just what is stored on the device.

The rest of this page is the detail for each starting point.

What to bring

MusicXML — a file ending in .musicxml or .mxl. It is the score as data rather than as a picture, so every note, hand and bar is already written down and nothing has to be guessed. It is what OmniPiano reads today, and it is what makes wait mode wait for the right note.

A PDF or a photo of the page does not work yet. Reading notes off an image is a separate piece of machinery and it is not switched on in the app you have — bring one and the import comes back as failed. That is our missing half, not a mistake at your end. It is being built; until it is, bring MusicXML.

A MIDI file plays, but it carries no staves and no hands, and every practice level is built from what each hand has to do. So a MIDI gets no levels.

Where to find a MusicXML file in the first place — which sites have them, what is free and what is not — is a question of its own: Bring your own song answers it.

The file is on your Mac or PC

Mac, no cable

AirDrop it

  1. Right-click the file on the Mac, choose Share › AirDrop, and pick your iPhone or iPad.
  2. On the phone, accept it and choose Save to Files. Put it wherever you like — On My iPhone or iCloud Drive are both fine.
  3. Open OmniPiano, go to Your music, tap Import a score, and pick the file.
Mac or PC, any distance

Put it in a cloud drive

Drop the file into iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive on the computer. On the phone, tap Import a score and browse to it — the picker reaches every drive whose app is installed, through the Browse tab and the … menu if a drive is not listed yet. Nothing has to be downloaded to the device first.

Mac or PC, with a cable

Copy it straight into OmniPiano

  1. Plug the phone in. On a Mac open Finder and select the device in the sidebar; on a PC use the Apple Devices app.
  2. Open the Files tab, find OmniPiano in the list, and drag the score onto it.
  3. In the app, Import a score › On My iPhone › OmniPiano — the file is there.

If OmniPiano is not in that list, open the app once on the device first.

The file is in an email

  1. Open the mail on the phone and tap the attachment to open it.
  2. Tap the share button — the square with an arrow out of the top — and choose Save to Files.
  3. Import it in Your music, from wherever you saved it.

The share sheet may also offer to open the file in OmniPiano directly. That route is not finished: the app opens, and the score is not imported. Save it to Files instead and import it from there — that always works.

The file is on a web page

Download it in Safari on the phone. Safari puts downloads in Files › Downloads (on iCloud Drive, or on the device — whichever Safari is set to). Then Import a score and pick it out of Downloads.

If the download opens as a preview instead of saving, tap the share button on the preview and choose Save to Files.

What happens after you pick the file

The score is uploaded to OmniPiano, read, and cut into practice levels. It takes a moment, and the shelf in Your music moves by itself when it is done.

Then you get a short report: what came through, and how many levels it managed to make. Some pieces have fewer than four — a piece with nothing left to take away has one, and the app says so rather than pretending.

An import is yours. It is not added to the Library, it is not shared with anyone, and deleting it deletes it.

If it still will not go in

Write to support@omnipiano.app. It helps to say which device and which iOS version you are on, where the file came from, and what the app said — a photo of the screen is plenty. We read every one.

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Then it plays like any other score.

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