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<span class="application">Rosegarden</span> stores each composition in its own document, using
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its own internal format. When you save a document it is stored
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on disc as a file with the .rg extension.<sup>[<a name="id2550372" href="#ftn.id2550372">1</a>]</sup> <span class="application">Rosegarden</span> can also
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handle a number of other standard file formats.
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</p><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="file-creating"></a>New compositions</h2></div></div></div><p>
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When <span class="application">Rosegarden</span> starts up, it does so with a new document,
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containing an "empty" composition ready to start editing.
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To put something in that composition, you must either record
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something, or create some blank lengths of music (referred
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to as "segments") that you can then fill in using the
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various editing facilities.
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</p><p>See <a href="recording.html" title="Recording">Recording</a> for details of how to record music, and see the <a href="segment-view.html" title="Chapter�3.�The Track Editor">Track Editor</a> section for a
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description of how to create, edit, and manage segments of
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</p></div><div class="footnotes"><br><hr width="100" align="left"><div class="footnote"><p><sup>[<a name="ftn.id2550372" href="#id2550372">1</a>] </sup>
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Many users have complained about our opaque binary file
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format. It is, in fact, nothing more than gzipped XML.
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