distortion on playback
I've been having problems with playback on scores I've entered, with some notes being heavily distorted (not just the sound, the playback hangs up on these notes too, as if it's having trouble processing them, and the sound is terrible). This does not appear to be consistent - sometimes when I open a score it's fine for a while, and then it starts going south. This jusst happens with some scores, most play fine without distortion. They are not complicated scores and I'm using whatever the default is for piano sound - I haven't tinkered with instruments or anything like that. Any idea what's causing this, or is it a known bug? I've attached a file I just created as an example.
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| Girl From Ipanema.mscz | 29.94 KB |
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No distortion on my system. I don't think the third ending played.
Tell us about your set up.
In reply to No distortion on my system… by bobjp
I am running windows 10 on a Lenovo laptop with i7-4700MQ CPU 2.4Ghz, 8GB RAM. The file was produced by PhotoScore Ultimate, which read a PDF score and made an XML file, which Musescore read to create the MCSZ file. I don't know if that could affect anything. I'm attaching the XML file. The Musescore version is 3.4.2.9788
In reply to I am running windows 10 on a… by Bill Cairns
I had to do some fiddling around with the file tht MuseScore ended up with - not a MuseScore problem, just that PhotoScore didn't catch all the Segnos and endings and such from the PDF score.
In reply to I am running windows 10 on a… by Bill Cairns
What is odd, is that this problem just shows up with some files. Most of the scores that I play on MuseScore play without distortion. It makes me think that there's something about the files that causes the trouble. But you say that you're not having trouble. Are you on a Windows machine?
In reply to I am running windows 10 on a… by Bill Cairns
I also replaced the hard drive with a 1TB SSD drive many months ago, which was a great move. It used to take a long time to fire up, but now it's very snappy.
It's fine for me, too. Probably a system resource issue on your machine - like running low on RAM, or other processes hogging the CPU.
In reply to It's fine for me, too. … by Marc Sabatella
I have a similar computer. I often ran into 100% disk usage until the HDD failed and I put a SSD in. Runs better than new.
Evan so, You say it's the same files?
In reply to It's fine for me, too. … by Marc Sabatella
Hmmm. I'm not running anything at the same time, and the machine has 8GB of RAM.
In reply to Hmmm. I'm not running… by Bill Cairns
I recall having to reset MuseScore for a sound issue.
In reply to I recall having to reset… by bobjp
How do I do that?
In reply to How do I do that? by Bill Cairns
see https://musescore.org/en/handbook/revert-factory-settings
In reply to see https://musescore.org/en… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thank you! I’ll try that out. I’m wondering, because the file in question was created from an XML file produced from a PDF score using PhotoScore (whew what a process), if it’s possible that the XML could have something in it that would change MuseScore’s settings? Not like a virus, just some weird settings that get embedded in MuseScore somehow?
In reply to I recall having to reset… by bobjp
Thank you all, that seems to have fixed everything, I'lltry to keep that knowledge in my mind (a challenge that increases with age, sadly) for the next time this pops up.