Short Duration
Hi,
I'm currently using the free trial version of Musescore, that means I'm a Pro user right now. But when I uploaded a piano sheet of 8-page length, the duration is only 00:09s as in the picture below. Why is that and how can I fix it?
Thank you in advance 
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See https://musescore.org/en/faq#faq-20657
In reply to See https://musescore.org/en… by Jojo-Schmitz
MuseScore's primary purpose is producing sheet music to be performed by players.
The current playback facility is provided as an aid and considered a lesser priority, but we do seek to make
more elements renderable for future versions."
As far as I understand, some sheet music is not provided with a full playback (which is shown by duration index? - 04:45 for a 5-page sheet), but I've also noticed that there are some with a full playback version as in the picture attached.
My prior aim is to convert a pdf music sheet into Midi format, could I do it via Musescore? (I've done it before with this same sheet but the Midi also lasts for 00:09s)
Thank you so much for your help.
If you somehow think the score itself is in error (what does playback in MuseScore, the actual software do?) and not the site, then please share the score.
If it works correctly in the software but not online, then see the link Jojo pointed to and go ask for support over on that site.
Note though that converting PDFs to MIDI is not in itself just a MuseScore job. You may use the completely experimental service offered at musescore.com to try and convert PDFs back into scores. It runs a fixed configuration of the Audiveris software. You may then indeed use MuseScore to further convert that generated score to MIDI.
Don't get your hopes up too high, as optical music recognition is still in its infancy and often fails. You'll probably get better results if you set up your own local copy of the Audiveris software and learn its settings.