Musescore 4 crashes constantly
Hi everyone, I've been using Musescore 4 a lot without much problem, but now it is starting to crash constantly when making any change to sheet music.
I can have a simple sheet music for 3 instruments, and when a detail is changed (something as small as an accent marking) MS4 crashes. If it withstands any sort of change in the sheet music, at the moment of saving (in my PC) it will certainly crash, not leaving a chance to work a single bit.
It has become quite frustating now, since there is no work around apparently.
My PC is a high-end one that runs more complex and heavy software, so I'm certain this is not a machine related issue, but a software one. Also, this occurs while not using MuseSounds, so it's not like playback is taking a huge toll on my PC.
Any way to solve this or do I have to wait for further releases?
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Please attach your score which is crashing, because that will help people to investigate. What we need is the .mscz file.
In reply to Please attach your score… by DanielR
Sure, this is the file that crashes when edited.
In reply to Sure, here is the file that… by Andres.Cardenio
It is corrupt. A 4.0.2 pre-release shows:
Incomplete measure: Part score: Piano, measure 22, staff 1. Found: 0/1. Expected: 12/8.
Incomplete measure: Part score: Piano, measure 26, staff 1. Found: 0/1. Expected: 12/8.
Incomplete measure: Part score: Piano, measure 26, staff 2. Found: 0/1. Expected: 12/8.
Incomplete measure: Part score: Piano, measure 27, staff 1. Found: 0/1. Expected: 12/8.
Incomplete measure: Part score: Piano, measure 27, staff 2. Found: 0/1. Expected: 12/8.
In reply to It is corrupt. A 4.0.2 pre… by Jojo-Schmitz
And then, what to do about it..?
In reply to And then, what to do about… by Salty-Ahan
See How to fix a score that contains corruptions
In reply to See How to fix a score that… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thank you for the information, truly!
Is there a way for me to check this problems as a user? In case that if something similar happens again, I could see what is the problem by myself.
In reply to Thank you for the… by Andres.Cardenio
4.0.2 will inform you about corruptions and where they are.
In reply to 4.0.2 will inform you about… by Jojo-Schmitz
Hi Jojo. Musescore hasn't told me there are any corruptions but it crashes everytime I try to create parts. I have narrowed it down to the third trombone part but I can't figure out what is wrong.
In reply to Hi Jojo. Musescore hasn't… by jenniferwhart
How are you trying to create parts?
Does this one crash too?
In reply to How are you trying to create… by Jojo-Schmitz
I tried creating parts by clicking the "Parts" button at the top, next to the mixer.
Then I tried going through the File menu and clicked parts.
The one you sent did not crash. Did you do something? Was something wrong with the file?
In reply to I tried creating parts by… by jenniferwhart
I did a few things, amongst other I did a reset to all parts
In reply to Please attach your score… by DanielR
I am having trouble opening Musescore 4 and since the file (that was originaly created in Musescore 3) was saved in musescore 4, I cannot go back to Musescore 3. Is there a way to recover this file to be opened in MS3? Thanks
In reply to I am having trouble opening… by floratini
Yes, the .mscz file is a compressed file. Use an unzipping program to pull out of it the .mscx file, and that will open in Musescore 3.
What is the behavior you observe when a 'crash' happens? Or, how does it crash? Also, is your system Linux, macOS, Windows?
In reply to What is the behavior you… by Are Jayem
The behavior is that musescore freezes for a couple of second, where I can't do anything but wait. Then it just shuts down, it closes without any notice.
I'm on Windows 10 at the moment.
In reply to The behavior is that… by Andres.Cardenio
I sometimes got into it too. Excuse me to follow this issue.
I am having similar problems with a score as well, could someone help me work out what is happening?
Every time I try to edit the composer/arranger text, MS4 crashes. Doesn't matter which score, it does this on all of them
In reply to Every time I try to edit the… by sharpflite
I can also confirm that MuseScore 4 is extremely unstable. With every new minor release I hope that things get fixed but so far nothing changed. You can even open a new score with just tabs, create a lot of rests (e.g. 1/8 rest all over) and start hiding them by pressing
vkey. It will crash quite soon and reproducible.There are many other ways to reproduce crashes and the score must not be corrupted to make it crash. I got used to press [Ctrl][S] after every successful change I was able to make (e.g. inserting a single note) since also often the automatic recovery does not work.
In reply to I can also confirm that… by hohwille
Try to hide any more rests in the attached score. Since Musescore 4 came out it is that unstable.
In reply to Try to hide any more rests… by hohwille
Rock solid for me. Maybe only on certain operating systems? Why does bar 18 only have 7/8?
OS: Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS, Arch.: x86_64, MuseScore Studio version (64-bit): 4.4.2-242570931, revision: 3130f97
In reply to Rock solid for me. Why does… by underquark
No crashes for me either. It certainly helps to diagnose issues if the OS and hardware configuration is provided.
In reply to No crashes for me either. It… by garytemp
No crash for me. Just wondering of what real world use is setting up a score with 1/8th rests, then hiding them.