Published score playback issue on musescore.com
Hello,
First off, I'm not completely sure my question belongs here or on a musescore.com discussion group, but after realizing the issue most likely involves the editor software itself on my side, I've decided to ask here.
Over a week ago, I published my newest score (which can be found here: https://musescore.com/user/18377826/scores/6033512) onto musescore.com. Moments after uploading the score, playback was not yet possible, as the score hadn't finished processing. After waiting for about 5 long hours, I was notified that it finished processing and was published. However, upon pressing the play button, the score failed to play.
It still fails to play, even over a week after publishing. Although I've had other scores where processing took longer than usual, I've never had to wait over a week; this makes me think something else is going on.
The score has many invisible tempo and dynamic markings, but I'm not sure how this translates to unsuccessful playback on musescore.com after the score was published.
Please refer to my published score, linked above, to see if you can replicate the issue, or, if needed, see the .mscz file I attached. My specifics are also below:
OS: Windows 10 (10.0)
Arch.: x86_64
MuseScore version (64-bit): 3.4.2.9788, revision: 148e43f
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| ELEGY.mscz | 58.64 KB |
Comments
If it plays in your MuseScore, but not on musescore.com, it pretty clearly is something to report on musescore.com.
In reply to If it plays in your… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks for the clarification.
In reply to If it plays in your… by Jojo-Schmitz
I'm having a similar problem. Waited 3 days and I received no response. Either way if the Musescore software itself is having trouble uploading then why shouldn't the problem be reported here?
In reply to I'm having a similar problem… by Nonchalantree
I'm not sure if the problem is solely with the software, though. Either way, I've posted this question on musescore.com, so now this issue is on both .com and .org. See https://musescore.com/groups/improving-musescore-com/discuss/5060643.
In reply to I'm having a similar problem… by Nonchalantree
Because the uploading part isn't technically done by the software.
The software opens a mini-browser which opens a web-form from musescore.com. The contents and format of that window thus are entirely out of MuseScore's hands and into those of the online score sharing platform musescore.com
I have had similar problems.
1> when you save the program in musecore, and restart the app, do you get a 'errors in score, 'ignore/continue' prompt? If you do, then the processing will most likely NOT work right.
2> are there any areas after upload that have '???' marks in them? For instance - in one of my uploads
(https://musescore.com/user/33464409/scores/5900364 in measure 59) you see the ?????
When i first uploaded, there were several of these and the score would upload but not play. After removing several things I thought might be causing the problem (2 of them had to do with dynamics) and defaulting all sound fonts and effects, the score played properly
3> occassionally muscescore.com bugs out. I find on sunday evengings, for example, anything i upload tends to sound very 'compressed' and distorts easily. When i reupload during an early monday or tues morning, for whatever reason, it almoset always sounds better (though some pieces ALWAYS sound distorted, despite using the exact same synth and mixer settings on every single piece. Not sure why this is, and have not gotten a good answer from musescore).
hope some of this helps
In reply to I have had similar problems… by ptrtool1999
Not sure what happened there with those ?! ?!, but in MuseScore itself it looks strange already:
![A_Blue_Waltz.png]( "A_Blue_Waltz.png")
In reply to Not sure what happened there… by Jojo-Schmitz
The only thing different was the font size - not sure why it parsed it like that.
The previous version had ?!?!?!?! in several places where no fonts were changed; in 1 case the error was mine (had assigned a dynamic to individual voices differently, then recombined to 1 voice - so that was probably my fault). I cant reproduce that 'bug' either, so not sure what happened.
The other ?!?!?!?! was related to a massive 'drag' operation that wrapped a few voices over each other. Program didnt crash, but musescore.com did not like it one bit!
In reply to The only thing different was… by ptrtool1999
Not even that, in Inspector and in the text tool the size shows as 12 pt, just like the others, so there's something else going on
In reply to I have had similar problems… by ptrtool1999
@ptrtool1999
First of all, my issue has recently been solved. Please see https://musescore.com/groups/improving-musescore-com/discuss/5060643.
No, this does not happen with my score. Sorry if this isn't much help.
Once again, this is not the case with my score. However, I will tell you that I've stumbled upon this font size/??? "bug" before, as I was messing around on a different score a while ago. I can reproduce the details Jojo-Schmitz commented about in the Inspector by double-clicking any dynamic marking, backspacing all the letters, pressing ESC, then pressing CTRL+Z to undo the last command. I don't know if this reproduces your problem when you upload a score containing this manually edited dynamic marking, I just know that if you do these commands, the manually edited dynamic marking appears the nearly the same as in the screenshot Jojo-Schmitz attached.
To be frank, I don't upload to musescore.com often enough to see a problem with this; in my experience, all my scores sound the same, regardless of the day they were uploaded, if I'm understanding you correctly.
Thanks for your input.