Ubuntu mscore 9.4
I first tried mscore 9.5 but had a mishap; after spending a whole afternoon putting in a tune called Spinning Wheel (regularly saving ctrl S) I ended up with a score, but it disappeared.
There still is a file called SpinningWheel.mscz and one hidden .SpinningWheel.mscz, (notice the comma at the end of this one!?) but both are a blank sheet.
Also, without changing anything in preferences, the sound is gone.
Frustrated I changed to mscore 9.4 hoping it'd work more stable, but there's still no sound.
Now I managed to reopen the hidden file opening it in mscore with the command line and a great part of the score is saved.
Still, working on it, it keeps on crashing and not wanting to save in another format than the zipped mscz.
So I keep reopening it, saving every 2minutes and finally print (even unfinished, to save at least this)
Now instead of one page it starts printing some 20 pages with each a line or 2 of gibberish on top and no music.
I'm not very well Linux-trained, so have no idea if this is buggy stuff (which I wouldn't know how to report since there's so much that's wrong).
I would love to get mscore to work, especially since I just bought Transcribe and need a program like mscore to write.
I realize this is not a very well formulated question, more of a frustration outlet right now, but maybe someone recognizes some of the above phenomena?
(using Ubuntu Jaunty + mscore 9.4)
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The save as problem is a known issue with MuseScore on Ubuntu Jaunty (previous versions of Ubuntu do not have this problem using MuseScore 0.9.4 or earlier).
The hidden file you mention just contains the previously saved version of your score. Could you attach a copy of the score that is appearing blank in MuseScore 0.9.5?
With regards to the constant crashing in 0.9.4 probably it is related to this issue //musescore.org/en/node/1662 . Since we are near the end of the development cycle for the next version of MuseScore you may actually find the development versions more stable.
In reply to The save as problem is a by David Bolton
thanks for your reply David, I'll try to attach the file and tomorrow I'll check if I can find the version in development to replace the current mscore.
In reply to thanks for your reply David, by catch22
The file contained an invalid tag in line 20 of the uncompressed MuseScore file. Deleting the offending line fixed the problem and file opens without an issue (see attached).
If you encounter this bug again see if you can discover the steps that cause it to happen.
In reply to The file contained an invalid by David Bolton
I downloaded the repaired file, but mscore doesn't see it.
Maybe because it was made with version 9.5 and I try opening with 9.4?
I tried with opening "all supported files" and it doesn't show any mscx-files, only mscz and msc.
Option xml doesn't show any file either.
In reply to I downloaded the repaired by catch22
Sorry I forgot about that. Just delete the "x" off the end of the file name. The is no difference between ".msc" and ".mscx" other than the file extension. The latter is used in the prereleases as described in the handbook. See [[nodetitle:export]] for more details.
In reply to Sorry I forgot about that. by David Bolton
ok, taking x away works for opening it, thanks.
It's still a corrupted file btw - there are many measures with only a 1 beat rest while the piece is in 4/4.
I'll delete it anyhow (unless you want to see it again for bugs?), since I started redoing the whole piece two days ago, and now have the basic note input ready to start more lay out stuff.
With the new version of the file (it's in mscz) when going to Style and clicking the box to get multiple rests in, then Apply, all goes well, but clicking OK will crash mscore every time.
Strangely enough Apply and then CANCEL will do the trick!
Apply and then Cancel shows the piece with multiple rests and lets me save it.
That's not all that's strange: clicking another Tab for a song that's opened goes there, but back to the Tab of the 1st tune in question there's another crash.
EDIT:
I put this in the repository (guessing that's the development version you meant)
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mscore-ubuntu/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/mscore-ubuntu/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
and then downloaded mscore with the terminal (it's 9.5b I think) and will see if it works better
In reply to ok, taking x away works for by catch22
Let us know if you have the same crashes with the 0.9.5 betas. If you do please include the file.
In reply to Let us know if you have the by David Bolton
9.5b works good now, except that printing one sheet makes the printing machine spew out 10 to 15 pages of gibberish
I'll include the file with which that happened now
EDIT: and saving it as PDF gives no error, but I don't see the file in the folder, so it's not saved after all
In reply to 9.5b works good now, except by catch22
I don't have Ubuntu so I can't help you with the printing. With regards to the PDF double check that you are looking in the same folder you saved the PDF and you are looking using the regular Ubuntu file browser.
In reply to I don't have Ubuntu so I by David Bolton
The PDF is nowhere. I did not only browse with Nautilus, but also did a thorough search with Catfish.
Searching for it did make me bump into usr/share/mscore/demos, which I didn't know they existed.
It might be an idea to point out in the documentation that demo-files exist (or I must've overlooked the info?)
The printing remains a mystery for now - other programs don't have this issue.
Crashing keeps on occurring when doing a copy/paste of multiple bars (it happens when I do Paste).
Thanks for you replies and help, David - much appreciated :-)
Ludo
In reply to The PDF is nowhere. I did not by catch22
If you encounter a crash see if you can reproduce it. Then report the exact steps to reproduce the crash on the forum. I have not experienced the copy-paste crashes you are describing.
Hallelujah!! Well, We are getting there. At least I can save my work as a muse score file. Doesn't save as anything else yet, but at least I don't have to keep tooing and fro-ing from windoze anymore
Thanks guys