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Format

Sibelius

Summary

Name
Sibelius
Identifiers
PUID: fmt/696
Description
Sibelius is a WYSIWYG scorewriter program, created by Sibelius Software (now part of Avid Technology) for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and historically RISC OS. It is used by composers, arrangers, performers, music publishers, teachers and students, particularly for writing classical, jazz, band, vocal, film and television music.
File extensions
sib
Submitted by
National Library of New Zealand / National Library of New Zealand

Relationships

Has lower priority than
Is supertype of

Internal signatures

Sibelius

Description
Absolute from beginning of file, magic bytes: .SIBELIUS
Provenance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibelius_%28software%29

Byte sequences

Min Frag Length
Absolute from BOF
Offset
0
Max offset
0
Byte Sequence
0F534942454C495553
Endianness
None

Changelog

  • V112

    Release date
    10 May 2023
    • Updated

      Sibelius: Updated signature description. Submitted by Digital Preservation Department, The National Archives (UK).

  • V81

    Release date
    18 February 2015
    • Added format

      Sibelius: Full entry added.

    • Added signature

      Sibelius: New signature submitted by National Library of New Zealand.