Musescore 4.0.2 still fails to correct flaws in repeat playback
Pick a score with a repeated A and repeated B section. This appears to play for me. Now click on the loopback button, it inserts the flags properly.
It then plays AA, and about bar 3 in the B - it skips back to the start of the score.
This renders Musescore 4 useless to me.
I've supplied a sample tune.
This is on Intel iMac which Apple in its wisdom has not allowed me to run Ventura, so it's using Monterey.
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| Coleman's March m4.mxl | 2.92 KB |
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I can confirm this issue. Did you report this on GitHub already? If not, no surprise it hasn't been fixed yet. But I do see that someone reported something similar a few weeks ago - see https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/issues/16875. So if that's the same thing, it's on the record now, so hopefully now that an issue has been opened, an investigation can now begin.
If you only use of MuseScore is for playback of MusicXML files using the infinite loop feature. then indeed, might be best to stick to MU3. But for virtually anything else, of course, MU4 will serve you infinitely better :-)
In reply to I can confirm this issue. … by Marc Sabatella
I attempted to report it here, but was foiled by all the limitations on uploading real stuff, I got fed up and stopped. I switched back to MU3 and eventually, I thought, such a bad bug in the sequencing code would be fixed. Surely other people want to play along with looped tunes to practice/learn them. It's a show stopper for my use of MU4.
Thanks for pointing me at the Github report route. Yes, the report you suggested to seems to duplicate the problem. I'll add my support to the report.
I uploaded an xml file because as text it was more uploadable as an mscx file. Using either causes MU4 to fail when looped.
In reply to I attempted to report it… by peasea
Can you explain which limitations on uploading you mean? Shouldn't be any problem attaching scores here. On GitHub, you do have to ZIP the file first.
Anyhow, the primary purpose of MuseScore is of course creating scores, not use as a practice tool. Which is why more people tend to find and report issues relating to that primary purpose than in playalong features, and why the core notation / editing features are generally prioritized higher, but playalong bugs do get fixed as they are reported too. Unfortunately, it seems that no one one else noticed and reported that issue during the alpha testing or the beat testing or the first several months after the initial MuseScore 4 release, so unfortunately, it wasn't able to be fixed yet.
In reply to Can you explain which… by Marc Sabatella
I wanted to upload a screenshot video, because it might have been platform related and not reproducible. I thought that the issue might be seen and fixed as time went on.
I never learnt to read music and MU provides me with a way of having files of tunes that I want to learn, practice and identify by title. I play by ear and have been for some many numbers of years, and it's good to have a way of repeating tunes that you want to learn. On the way, I am getting to grips with reading music.
I am also hoping that it won't be long before there's an iPad version of MU that can read MU4 scores.
In reply to I wanted to upload a… by peasea
Instead of uploading a video here, upload to a site that specializes in video (like YouTube) then post a link here.
I know the mobile apps are being worked and should support MU4 files soon. But to be clear: these are not versions of MsueScore itself - they are just readers/players. It's certainly possible that someday there might be an actual mobile version of MuseScore itself, but that is probably years away.
In reply to Instead of uploading a video… by Marc Sabatella
I am aware that the mobile versions are only readers. However, they are useful apps. If you learn tunes by ear or by playing along, then you get to know a great many tunes, I and many other people often have a blank when trying to play some specific tune. All I often need is the first bar, or the first two bars - and then the body remembers. People who read can travel with the first two bars in a book, and I've seen this done. I am progressively putting tunes into MU for the iPad so I can play the first two bars in these circumstances.
In reply to I am aware that the mobile… by peasea
Sure, understood. Mobile reader/player apps are useful indeed. I just wanted to set expectations appropriately. When you said you were "hoping that it won't be long before there's an iPad version of MU that can read MU4 scores", I wanted to make sure you understood that's. "an iPad version of MU" is still a very long ways off, really, planning work hasn't even begun as far as I know. But "an iPad version ... that can read MU4 scores" - a version of the reader/player app, not of MuseScore itself - is probably coming very soon. When I spoke to one of the developers a couple of months ago, he thought it was only a couple months out...
In reply to Sure, understood. Mobile… by Marc Sabatella
Great, Thanks.