MW 2000 Standard - FAQs
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PBL Format Support - (Old MW Plus format) 
Our current series of Notation Software does not support this old file format:
.PBL. Your old files saved in .PBL (native Music Write Plus) format may be
used with the following Music Write programs: 
    MW 2000 Standard 
    MW 2000 Professional 
    MW Songwriter
    MW Maestro
Only if you have previously changed the file format from .pbl to .mid from 
within the old "Music Write Plus" program.

Here's how: 

  - From within the MW Plus program open the file you need to use.
  - Click on File > Save As and change the default .pbl to .mid. 
  - Name your file and click OK.

Once you have converted your .PBL to .MID you can then open it in any program
that will read standard MIDI files, including our later "Music Write" series
of Notation programs. 

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    MW Plus is not supported in new Systems running Win 2000, Win XP or later.
    If throughout the years you have invested a lot of valuable time creating
    PBL files that are important to you, you should do this BEFORE upgrading
    your system to XP or any other OS that is not supported by MW Plus. Once 
    you migrate to the new OS, it is too late to Save your PBL files as MIDI
    files, since you cannot install this program onto new platforms. 

    If you failed to this 'beforehand' the only other option would be to 
    re-install MW Plus in a different System that runs Win 95 or Win 98 
    and do the conversion from there. This process is not supported by our
    Support Staff.    
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