Playback Not Working

• Jul 8, 2014 - 12:36

Hello!!
I am relatively new MuseScore and music notation software in general so I apologize if this topic has been covered already. I did search and found nothing so…

I imported a simple MXL lead sheet into MuseScore and it won’t play, even after I saved it as a MSCZ or MSCX file. When I click the play button, it doesn’t stay clicked or play the piece. However, the notes DO play when clicked individually. All of the settings I have checked seem to be correct and are identical to other scores I have created that do play. If I open another piece of music during the same session, they play fine. Closing and reopening the program does nothing.

It is the ONLY piece of music I have imported or created that hasn’t played so I have a feeling the original file I imported may have been corrupted but before I recreate the piece from scratch, I figured I ask here if there may be a setting I missed.

Thanks so much for any assistance you can offer!

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• Jul 8, 2014 - 17:25

First of all, thanks to everyone who helped and opened my eyes to issues that caused this problem. Hopefully I'll look at the tempo if I ever have an issue like this again.

For the record, I reopened my MXL version, tweaked the tempo from the 999 BPM setting that was there and it plays fine!! I'll finish up my other revisions later now that I don't have to start from scratch. :-)

Interestingly though, before I fixed my MXL file, I downloaded cadiz1's attached repaired MSCZ file located on his reply but when I tried to open it I got an error message that read:

Cannot read this score:
Your version of MuseScore is too old.
Upgrade now!

I'm running 1.3 which I though was the latest version. Any ideas why his file wouldn't open on my PC?

Thanks again everyone!

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