Musescore automatically launching at startup

• Jan 28, 2021 - 01:51

I have a Mac and every time I boot the cpu Musescore launches automatically. How can I turn this feature off?

Thanks!

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• Oct 3, 2021 - 20:39

I think I roughly understand what you mean. My observation, however, was that MuseScore was the o n l y software (apart from the OS itself and a couple of windows I usually intentionally leave open on shutdown) that was launched on startup. So, also in light of the remarks by other people about two other OS's, it would be understandable to hypothesize that either (some versions of) MuseScore launch(es) themselves on startup or provoke the OS to do that, would it not? Yes, there might be a way to switch off the automatic launches through the OS, and I might be inclined to leave my initial hypothesis were I given a simple instruction of how I might bring that about. But since the latter is not the case and since only MuseScore launches at startup, me (as a simple user) still feel very much attracted to my initial hypothesis.

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• Oct 3, 2021 - 21:32

I am still wondering what happened and what did not happen. Your insisting had me look for any switch there may be on my system. I came across Autostart, but changed nothing. Then I installed the newer version mentioned above, performed a restart and, lo and behold, MuseScore did n o t launch on startup, while it did when I explicitly switch it on. So, that seems fixed ... by whatever cause.

Now, a couple of times when I launched (after shutting MuseScore down) the newest version of MuseScore when listening to a YouTube recording, that created a noise in the loudspeakers. The noise stopped when I turned down to 0% the playback volume for MuseScore and for Internal Sound Analogue Stereo and did not return when I turned them up to 100% again. So the noise is gone, for the time being. And it did not re-occur on three occasions of launching MuseScore (after having shut it down).

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• Oct 4, 2021 - 18:24

What happens probably depends on how you installed it. If you used an unsupported third party build of MuseScore - like something you get from a distribution repository - then who knows what they did in creating the package. And it seems that's likely what you did - 3.4.2 is years old, most likely it is indeed an unsupported third party build.

The supported AppImage build of MuseScore you get directly from this site is 3.6.2, and it wouldn't even have the possibility of installing itself in a way that ran on startup. The only way to get that behavior would be to use your OS's facilities to do that yourself.

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• Oct 5, 2021 - 01:18

That makes sense, and gives me a new insight; thanks for that! I did indeed get the 3.4.2 from a repository, and the 3.6.2 directly from musescore.org. The insight has actually become my new favourite hypothesis.

What worries me a bit is that the installed 3.6.2 does not show in my (Yast) software manager. And on https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/install-linux I can find no uninstall manual for uninstalling it. But it might be desirable ... one day. For instance, when a newer version appears.

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• Oct 5, 2021 - 20:18

I believe you can uninstall the AppImage the same way you install it - running it from the command line with the appropriate option (install vs remove, I think). Or simply delete the relevant files/folders. I take the latter approach because normally I don't want to actually remove everything on an update.

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