Musescore Experience is insufferable
Hi, I'm complaining here in hopes that somebody with more experience with Musescore is familiar with these complaints and can help me fix this,
I'm finding the Musescore playback experience to be frustrating and am considering canceling my subscription.
I'm trying to play a piece called Sylvalum on the Piano. On the sheet page, after fullscreening, I see both sheet music pages. If I zoom in with the site, it tells me to download an app. If I zoom in with my keyboard, the second page up and disappears into oblivion for some reason. I also can't scroll manually while zoomed in so if I zoom in to a point where I can see the notes clearly, I'm only able to play back the first two lines of the sheet music while the piece continues off-screen. Limit us from zooming in on the Website version arbitrarily so we're forced to download the app. Definitely scummy, but I've seen way worse and this is a company that needs to make money, fine. I download the app on my Chromebook, open it. The app is zoomed in and like 30% of the screen is cropped out of the window on both sides, so I can't see more than half of what's going on and I'm missing information and access to tabs to be able to set it up and use it. Fine, I'll download it on my Windows, it's not available for windows. Fine, I'll download the Musescore Sheet editing software on my Windows and see if it works. Download it, download Sylvalum sheet music and open it in the software. Half the notes are silent for some reason, cannot figure out why. Every time I try to click on the screen to select a part of the song to play back to, it thinks I want to edit the note or add a new one. It's clear I'm trying to playback music using an editing software and the experience is not streamlined for it at all.
Musescore seems like a fine application, but I shouldn't have to jump through fifty thousand hoops to practice a piece properly.
How do people here practice songs that have more than one page? I have access to Windows and Chromebook and I'm willing to try anything at this point.
Thank you.
This is the piece in question, if it helps: https://musescore.com/maxmic480/scores/2261801
Comments
I would download it as a PDF and view it on a tablet in portrait mode. I don't think the .com site you got this from was really meant as a practice tool. You could print it out. Or view it directly on a tablet.
In reply to I would download it as a PDF… by bobjp
I want to be able to playback certain measures in loop to help me practice, ideally.
I have the papers printed out, I want the online sheet playable as an accompaniment.
In reply to I want to be able to… by mikhaell1
Download, open in MuseScore
The score likely stems from a pretty old MuseScore version, whatever was available in 2016, at best 2.0.3
In reply to The score likely stems from… by Jojo-Schmitz
Do you know how to fix it?
Also, do you practice with online sheet music playback? I find it helps me get everything just right.
I tried to download every Musescore option and they were all faulty. The mobile app works but is too small.
The composer software is the most promising, but I wish it had a "viewer" mode that was more streamlined for practicing complete pieces, and this piece in particular is bugged on it.
In reply to Do you know how to fix it?… by mikhaell1
"I'm finding the Musescore playback experience to be frustrating and am considering canceling my subscription."
This forum provides support for the free MuseScore notation editor, so no subscription is needed for that. I downloaded the piece in MuseScore format and opened it in MS 3.6.2 (I don't use MS 4.0 yet).
"do you practice with online sheet music playback?"
Yes, and I create the score using MuseScore notation editor on my own PC. I find it easier to loop playback for a passage on my own PC rather than online. But I also provide HTML pages for online practice scores using the Embed sharing option.
[EDIT] See the MS Handbook for instructions about Loop playback:
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/play-mode
"Do you know how to fix it?"
There is nothing to fix in your score as far as I can see, no corruptions are reported on opening the file. Attached is the score file in MS 3.6.2 format, with some minor tidying and changes to the newer fonts.