Problems getting started

• Jun 11, 2010 - 06:48

Very newbie question.

I've got ubuntu 9.10. I pulled musescore from the package manager and got 0.9.4. The application comes up, but no sound. I look in forums and lots of people talk about getting JACK running. I try getting that running, but no luck. "cannot create engine" or "cannot connect to server as client". I look in MuseScore preferences in the I/O tab and have internal synthesizer set. It points to /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.sf2 and the file is there in the directory.

I added myself to user group "audio".

Still no sound.

Can someone point me to a good link to get started and get sound working?

Thanks for any help.

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• Jun 11, 2010 - 19:33

For most users it is best to use the default sound settings instead of worrying about JACK. However you need to upgrade to a more recent version of MuseScore. Either upgrade your version of Ubuntu or see the instructions on the download page of this website for the stable backports.

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• Jun 13, 2010 - 23:07

I updated to 0.9.6 (the package manager finally picked it up after I restarted - still have to figure out how that all works...) and it works. Sometimes switching between note and play mode I can't get the play to work. However, terminating and restarting the application usually solves it.

So, I'm running. Now I have to learn how to use it.
Thanks for the help.

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