.\" muse-song-convert -- conversion utility between MusE songfile formats .\" Copyright (c) 2005 Daniel Kobras .\" .\" This manual page is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify .\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by .\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or .\" (at your option) any later version. .\" .\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, .\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of .\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the .\" GNU General Public License for more details. .\" .\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License .\" along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software .\" Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA .\" .\" This manual page was written especially for Debian GNU/Linux. .\" .TH MUSE-SONG-CONVERT 1 "August 2005" .SH NAME muse-song-convert \- convert between MusE songfile formats .SH SYNOPSIS .B muse-song-convert \fIsongfile\fR .SH 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 .B 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, .B muse-song-convert does not modify the original .IR songfile . Instead, it copies and converts the original .I songfile as .IR songfile .converted. The process is meant to retain all information in the converted songfile, but may not be perfect in all cases. .SH AUTHORS .B muse-song-convert was written by Robert Jonsson . .PP This manual page was written by Daniel Kobras for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).