Sibelius

Overview

Sibelius is the name of a series of applications for music typesetting, initially developed for RISC OS (file type DE0, Sibelius) and later for Mac OS X and Windows.

The file format for the RISC OS versions (Sibelius 6 and 7) differs from that used on the other platforms. Traditionally, files from those versions have been given an .si7 file extension, imported into the later versions, and saved with an .sib extension.

Files produced on current versions of the product appear to be compressed using an unspecified algorithm. Attempting to compress a file further typically leads to an increase in file size due to the overhead of additional compression format headers.

Resources

ChoralWiki:Sibelius - information about the different versions of Sibelius for various platforms