Improve "regroup rhythms" heuristics
As per support forum post:
https://musescore.org/en/node/284504
See attached screenshots showing a bar before and after "regroup rhythms". I prefer the tied eighths on the "before" screenshot, is it intended behaviour to collapse into a single quarter note that doesn't fall on beat?
(Marc Sabatella responds: FWIW, I prefer the before too in this case, feel free to submit an official bug report via the issue tracker (see Support menu above). I'd mark the severity as "minor" (to me, it's somewhere between that and "major" but we don't have such an option).
My personal preference would be for "regroup rhythms" function to convert the "AfterRegroup" grouping to the "BeforeRegroup" grouping, but I'd also be happy if the function left both groupings as they are.
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Comments
Is this Issue meant to catalog all Regroup Rhythms heuristics that need attention, or should others have separate Issues opened? Here is another I've found.
In 4/4, if you have a pickup bar of a beat and a half, but some instruments have only rests in that bar, you'd notate those as an eighth rest followed by a quarter rest, so that the quarter aligns with the beat. But if you Regroup such a bar, it puts the rests in the opposite order.
PS: I agree with the other commenters that in the first example posted, the Before image is a more conventional way to notate that bar than the After image.
The issue with the pickup bar is a bit different, it's not really just about regroup as it also affects the default beaming even before running the command. it's just that we don't "know" the bar is a pickup, so we don't know to treat it as the last as opposed to first beat and half of the measure. Yes, obviously, we do know, but coming up with an algorithm where MuseScore can definitively know in all the different cases (not just pickups, also measures split across a system, break, etc) is tricky. That said, there is such an algorithm, used for swing playback, and it works pretty well. So we should indeed use that here too. This comes up from time to time, see for instance #50121: Ancrusis writing.
In reply to The issue with the pickup… by Marc Sabatella
Makes sense. So do you expect fixing #50121 will also resolve this, or should I open a new issue for it?
No need for a separate issue, but feel free to add a "+1" there to show your support for seeing a fix, and remind us it's still an issue!
In reply to No need for a separate issue… by Marc Sabatella
Done, thank you.