I would like to share music that I’ve transcribed for other people to collaborate on, reference, and use. Songsterr [1], for example, allows collaboration [1.1], but I don’t like that it locks a lot of features behind a paywall [1.2.1.1], that it’s a proprietary service [1.2.2], and how centralized it is [1.2.1.2]. I’m leaning towards using Codeberg [2] to create a repository [3] for each transcription, or to put all transcriptions in one repository, but I don’t feel that either of those options are ideal, and I’m not sure if it’s a good idea to track compressed files in a Git repo (the project files for Musescore, for example, are compressed as Zip files [4]).

References
  1. Type: Website. Name: “Songsterr”. Publisher: “Guitar Tabs LLC”. Accessed: 2025-09-12T07:42Z. URI: https://www.songsterr.com/.
    1. Type: Webpage (Article). Title: “Help”. Location: “HELP”>§“Contributing tabs”. URI: https://www.songsterr.com/help.
    2. Type: Webpage (Article). Title: “Terms of Service”. URI: https://www.songsterr.com/terms.
      1. Location: §“What Songsterr Offers”
        1. Location: ¶2.

        2. Songsterr is an archive of guitar, bass and drum tabs with more than 80,000 songs. […] all the content provided through our Service is licensed, and we pay a percentage of our revenue as royalties to support music creators.

      2. Location: [§“Content”]

        […] Content found on or through this Service are the property of Guitartabs LLC or used with permission. You may not distribute, modify, transmit, reuse, download, repost, copy, or use said Content, whether in whole or in part, for commercial purposes or for personal gain, without express advance written permission from us. […]

  2. Type: Website. Name: “Codeberg”. Accessed: 2025-09-12T07:54Z. URI: https://codeberg.org/.
    1. Type: Webpage. URI: https://codeberg.org/about.

      Codeberg is a non-profit, community-led effort that provides Git hosting and other services for free and open source projects.

  3. Type: Meta.
    • Codeberg is a Git repository hosting service [2.1].
  4. Type: Article. Title: “File formats”. Publisher: “MuseScore Ltd”. Published: ~2023. Accessed: 2025-09-12T08:07Z. URI: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/file-formats#musescore-native-format.
    • Type: Text. Location: §“MuseScore native format”>§“MuseScore format (*.mscz)”. URI: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/file-formats#mscz.

      […] The format is a ZIP-compressed version of .mscx files and includes any images the score may contain and a thumbnail. […]

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