MuseScore Studio 4.4.3 Release Candidate: Call for testing

• Oct 18, 2024 - 18:23

Hello everyone,

We are about to release MuseScore Studio version 4.4.3, which is planned to be the last release in the 4.4 series. To prevent bad surprises after the release of this update, we want to ask everyone to help testing the release candidate and let us know when you spot any issues.

In particular, if previously reported a bug in version 4.4, please check and report back to us whether it's been fixed in this version!

Downloading the release candidate

The release candidate builds can be downloaded here:

This release candidate version can be safely installed alongside any 'stable' version of MuseScore Studio.

Qt update on Windows

For Windows, we are switching from Qt 6.2.4 to Qt 6.2.9. This resolves a number of issues, most importantly:

  • Popups appearing on the wrong monitor or not at all
  • Certain strange graphical issues with multi-monitor setups
  • Potentially some cases where the program would not open, or show only a blank screen

Updating to a new Qt version always involves some risk. Therefore, Windows users, please pay close attention to the following areas:

  • Popups, dialogs, and window behaviour
  • The graphics in the score view itself, and in exported graphics files
  • If you were unable to open MuseScore Studio 4.4.0, and this was fixed by updating to version 4.4.1 or 4.4.2, please verify that it still works in version 4.4.3.

Other fixes

Several other issues were resolved too:

  • problems with dragging and resizing frames and images
  • lyrics layout issues
  • some crashes and a corruption
  • playback issues with hairpins together with compound dynamics
  • an audio issue when using an audio device with more than two channels on Windows

Full release notes will follow with the full 4.4.3 release. For now, see the 4.4.3 project on GitHub for a list of all fixes.

Reporting issues

If you find an issue, that has not been reported yet, please log it at https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/issues/new/choose (requires a GitHub account), clearly stating that you encountered it in this 4.4.3 RC build.

We’re aiming for a release very soon, so would like to give this a concentrated testing effort over the coming few days. We’re grateful for any time you can spare to assist here!

Comments

• Oct 19, 2024 - 01:12

I just ran the MuseScore-Studio-4.4.3.242921234-x86_64 appImage file (on LMDE) and when I make a change to the wallpaper setting in Preferences > Appearance, it doesn't save it. Maybe I have something turned off, though? I can't find any kind of "save configuration on exit."

(So I don't want to report anything on GitHub if it's my own stupid error!)

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• Oct 19, 2024 - 14:19

I can confirm that this is a bug.
Not only in the 4.4.3 but also in earlier releases (tested with 4.2.1 -> same behaviour)
The problem is that the mountpoint of the appimage is hardcoded in the ini file, e.g;:
canvas\foreground\wallpaper=/tmp/.mount_mscorenIIT9A/share/mscore4portable-4.4/wallpapers/paper5.png
Next time the appimage is started, the mountpoint is not (in this example) /tmp/.mount_mscorenIIT9A anymore but something different.
Same behaviour with foreground as with background.

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• Oct 21, 2024 - 11:09

Yes this issue does appear to remain.

Just for the sake of clarity, the sound you are hearing in your score though is the bartok pizz. sound: it's just being triggered by the stave text (sound flag) and not the articulation symbol.

So evidently the articulation symbol still needs to be sent to the sampler. I'll raise this again with our devs.

FWIW, it's easier to hear the bartok pizz effect with a louder dynamic. When I tried this, I encountered another bug, being that a forte applied to violins 2 triggers a note a min6 above, and only for C5 and C#5 :-). This is probably a library issue that I'll raise with the muse sounds team.

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