How to fix corrupted timing?
Periodically I get a message about a file being corrupted when I load it. For instance I get the message that a measure should be 4/4 but is actually 9/8. When I look at the measure , it has a quarter note, two eighth notes, a quarter rest, an eighth rest, and a quarter rest (see attachment below). I can find no way to delete the eighth rest!. . . I tried many ways. For instance, I try emptying the whole measure (select the measure and hit the delete key) and it deletes the contents of the measure as well as the first note in the next measure, which I then can't replace.
It appears Musescore is trying to help me rather than just doing what I ask (e.g. if I select the eighth rest and hit the delete key, nothing happens; I assume it deletes the rest and replaces it with a rest).
Is there any way to force Musescore to recalculate the rests in the measure to add up to 4/4? Or is there any way to have Musescore write out my piece in some ascii format so I can go in with a text editor and fix that measure?
Thanks for any help...
-=Peter=-
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We can understand and assist better if you attach an actual score, not just a picture. As it is, it seems you should be able to fix the extra half beat by selecting the eighth rest and pressing Ctrl+Delete (or Tools / Remove Selected Range). But depending on exactly what is going on, that might not always work. So see https://musescore.org/en/node/54721 for more suggestions. I wouldn't normally recommend resorting to editing a file with a text editor unless you really know what you are doing, but you can save as MSCX which is an XML-based text format, or use your favorite ZIP program to extract the MSCX file form the MSCZ file, which is just a ZIP archive containing the MSCX and some metadata.
In reply to We can understand and assist… by Marc Sabatella
Marc et al ,
Thanks for the suggestions and the info about mscx format. Unfortunately, . . .
+ Selecting the eighth rest and then hitting Ctrl+Delete (on a Mac) did nothing.
+ Selecting the eighth rest and then clicking Tools > Remove Selected Range removed the first quarter rest as well as part of the accompanying instruments' parts.
+ Selecting either quarter rest followed by clicking Tools > Remove Selected Range also did one wrong thing or another.
So I'm attaching the file for everyone's perusal, and I welcome any further suggestions. The problem is in measure 22 of the mandolin. Interestingly, MuseScore is able to play the score without a hitch.
Best,
-=P=-
In reply to Marc , Thanks for the… by psl
On Mac, you always need to mentally substitute "Cmd" when anyone says "Ctrl".
Did you try the other suggestions in the article I linked to? Seems any number of them would have worked. But anyhow, it seems in your score, the actual problem is the quarter rest on 3, not the eighth rest: that follows it - the eighth rest claims to be on beat 3.5, which suggests the quarter rest before it is really only an eighth rest masquerading as a quarter. So simply select that and change it to an eighth rest, that appears to fix it.