Bring Back "Smooth Pan" Scrolling, to allow people to see notes before they have to play them.
I play along to MuseScore , by silencing my part and listening to all the other parts as I play.
If it is inconvenient to have my laptop, I make a video of musescore and play along to the video.
But, I can't do it with MuseScore 4 because the essential scrolling featurs were all removed.
The cursor on MuseScore 4 goes all the way to the right of the screen, and then the music score lurches over. You can't play the next measure because you don't see it in time.
I had to revert to MuseScore 3, which has options for smooth scrolling.
The relevent option in the Advanced tab of Preferences is "smoothPan/enabled" and other "smoothPan" options.
These options are all missing in MuseScore 4. I can't use it to play along to.
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This problem was reported a while ago. See the issue on Github:
https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/issues/15212
and #340597: SmoothPan is missing, the meanwhile discontinued musescore.org issue tracker
In reply to and #340597: SmoothPan is… by Jojo-Schmitz
Jojo,
Thank you, and thank you for being truly dedicated to MuseScore. I've been seeing your helpful replies on these forums for many years.
My day was ruined in Wednesday when MuseScore 3 Check For Update feature installed an entirely different program without my permission. I can see that MuseScore 4 is a great design, but it wasn't stable and lacked features and I had a lot of scores I needed to get ready for my group. It was very stressful just because of my time deadlines. Please do not autiomatically upgrade people from from 3 to 4 without them taking a specific action to request it. Also , please do not discontinue support for MuseScore 3 until MuseScore 4 has the same feature set, can play the files without random instrument dropouts, and all the menus come up without crashing.
I am a retired software developer (Microsoft) and have long been interested in contributing to MuseScore as a developer. I might want to work on things like bringing back smooth panning, but I can't find very good discussion on any of the forums about what is really going on.
It does not appear that this issue has been assigned to any developer. If I were to take it on, is the problem just that the advanced settings need to be exposed, or is it that the code that enabled smooth panning to take place now missing from the product?
In reply to Jojo, Thank you, and thank… by David Bangs
Mu3 hasn't been uninstalled though and is still working. Only Mu4 is now the default when double-clicking on MuseScore files, but that can quite easily get fixed
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The automatic update does ask whether you want it or not, it won't install anything without your consent:
In reply to Jojo, Thank you, and thank… by David Bangs
But yes, new code contributors are always welcome!
In reply to Jojo, Thank you, and thank… by David Bangs
Whether the code behind smooth score still exists is the first thing to check of course. Well possible that it had been removed.
In reply to Jojo, Thank you, and thank… by David Bangs
I see you started a discussion at https://github.com/orgs/musescore/discussions/18145
In reply to I see you started a… by Jojo-Schmitz
Yes, it seems GitHub is the right place for a discussion like this. I can start by building the code base and have all the code in Visual Studio. Any suggestions will be appreciated. Thank you.
In reply to Yes, it seems GitHub is the… by David Bangs
Not the same, but I suppose you could print your part and play with MU4. Seems about the same trouble as making a video or mp3.
In reply to Not the same, but I suppose… by bobjp
I love playing with a scrolling score and not having to print a bunch of pages and flip through them.
I'm not the only one. Other prople have shared their own stories about why they will be sticking with MuseScore 3. It isn't just this feature that is missing. I can't even show and hide parts in MS 4.
I even share MuseScore 3 videos on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/david.loren.bangs/videos/10159499928388521
In reply to I love playing with a… by David Bangs
I get it. Everyone has their own uses for MuseScore. I am a Sibelius user. I am waiting for the day it will not run on some future version of Windows. MU3 doesn't com close to Sibelius. MU4 is the first glimmer of hope I've had. I compose. Period. I need far better playback than MU3 has. MU4 playback is better, but still needs work.
In reply to I love playing with a… by David Bangs
You can show parts in MS4, although the first 3 or 4 times I wanted to do so I had to fire up Google.
It depends on what you mean.
Do you want to take a score and pull out a single part? Then "dead" center very near the top of the screen is Parts icon. Click it and pick the parts you want to open in separate tabs.
Do you want to show/hide parts within a given score window, without opening in another? In that case, on the left hand side bar, where your pallette is located, click the Instruments tab. Click the eyeball to hide the part. Click again so see the part again. If you click the arrow next to the part name, still in the pallette, you have another eye that can click to hide the part. This second eye will hide the part without muting the part.
Summary:
To hide and mute the part, click the top eyeball.
To hide and not mute the part, click the arrow and then the bottom eyeball.
Incidently, to only mute the part, click Mixer at the top center, and click M under the part you want to mute.
Play along with MuseScore 3, not MuseScore 4—essential scrolling features were removed.
In reply to Play along with MuseScore 3,… by SeanBright
Good news, as this has been resolved/implemented. If you want to check it....download a recent Nightly build.