Various bugs in long multi-section score
Hello,
Over the past few months, I have been working on an arrangement for my school musical, and during that time I have encountered a large amount of odd behaviour.
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The measure numbers in the parts do not match with the conductor score. There are sections where I need to exclude certain measures from the measure count, and I apply this property in the conductor score when arranging in the 'measure properties' menu. However, I didn't notice that this property doesn't carry over to the part scores automatically. Is this behaviour intended?
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The measure numbers will change for no apparent reason. I have been using the 'Section Break' tool to mark the end of a song to reset the measure numbers for the next song, and it works well for the most part. But sometimes after making an edit to the score, all the measure numbers in the section I'm currently editing change as though there was no section break on the previous song. Pressing 'M' twice to collapse and expand the measures fixes this.
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Basic edits don't update in the part scores. Sometimes when making edits like adding boxes or changing notes' properties like 'small notes' or other, these changes are not reflected in the parts. And sometimes edits made in one part aren't reflected in the other parts that should be universal (or so I think). I have noticed this particularly as well with the page breaks and section breaks; sometimes they are changed uniformly but other times not.
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Weird measure shifting bug. Just today, which is what prompted me to write this post, I encountered a weird bug where my conductor score has 'shifted' 3 measures over. Eg. Song #19 in my conductor score has 20 measures but only 17 in the part scores, Song #20 has the same number of measures and appears normal, and Song #21 has 10 measures in the conductor score but 13 in the part scores. When I try to remove any measure, a crash occurs. This has also affected other aspects of the notation, where if I place a repeat barline in the score, it creates two that are spaced apart by 3 measures, assumedly to try to update the parts as well as the conductor score.
I have no idea how the score ended up like this, and I don't know how I could get it back to how it was.
I need to have the score done by tomorrow, but not to panic about all this, as I have been careful to make many backups. More than anything, I would just love to see some of these bugs addressed, because I haven't really seen many other reports of similar issues.
I can send screenshots/musescore file if necessary. I am on Windows.
Many thanks to anyone who can help!
- Joshua
Also, congrats on MS 4 beta, the sample library is amazing.
Comments
This is probably not intended and a bug.
It seems to be fixed in the release candidate of MS4
So far, I could not reproduce in the release candidate of MS4. If you find a way to reproduce this, feel free to open up a topic/issue for it
This is mostly by design though. Since MuseScore has no way to "unlink" a property, it stayed very conservative as to which properties should be automatically linked. The broad guideline here is that anything that can be considered "layout" will be separate. Anything that is 100% certain content will be linked.
To that end, Section Breaks should be linked, but Page Breaks not.
That sounds weird indeed, and not something I've seen reported before. It seems to hint at a score corruption (or at the very least a corruption in the link-to-part). Depending on the effort already placed in the part (and your deadline) you could consider removing and regenerating the part(s).
Another possible approach could be to insert additional measure before them, copy over the contents as required and then attempt to delete the broken measures.