Playback not working
The playback feature is not working on Musescore for me. I have downloaded the latest version, reset it to factory settings, and all the audio on other programmes is fine, it just isn't letting me click the button to start playback. Pressing the spacebar doesn't start playback either, and I can't open the play panel. What is the issue?
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Not sure, as you did revert to factory settings already
But see #270996: No sound on upgrade to 2.2 if default soundfont was saved as default and the workarounds mentioned there:
Workaround: Open Synthesizer and add the default soundfont again or revert to factory settings, loosing all palettes, shortcuts etc... (or manually delete synthesizer.xml)
Did it ever work before? If your playback button is greyed out, that's not a soundfont problem - it's an audio driver problem. For whatever reaosn, it seems MuseScore can not locate your audio device. What do you see in Edit / Preferences / I/O? What OS are you on?
In reply to Did it ever work before? If… by Marc Sabatella
It used to work. Stopped working early this morning. When I go to that, I see all the drop-down menus are greyed out too and empty. I'm on Windows 10.
In reply to It used to work. Stopped… by jbrydon96
So the question now is what has changed from when it worked to when it did not. Don't discount anything you might have done.
In reply to So the question now is what… by mike320
It did work, and then I would have done some work on my dissertation (Microsoft Word+Zotero) and listened to some music (Spotify). I emailed someone a PowerPoint (Firefox), and then shut it down. When I opened the laptop this morning, it wasn't working. I don't know if that gives any clues?
In reply to It did work, and then I… by jbrydon96
Did Spotify do an update? Would you know if it did? I've never used Spotify so I don't know if it updates on the sly. Did you adjust any volume for Spotify? Was it from within Spotify or did you use the system volume? Did you accidentally mute MuseScore in the system volume control?
In reply to It used to work. Stopped… by jbrydon96
If the menus are greyed out, how would you know they are empty? So, for instance, the File menu is greyed out, but you somehow you are able to see that it is empty, or is it just that nothing happens when you click on it, because it is greyed out? Can you post a screenshot?
One though - are you perhaps in Edit mode? That would grey out a number of menu options Simply pressing Esc gets you out of that.