MuseScore 4's undocked mixer usually appears very narrow—or at a minimal width—on reopening the score

• Jan 14, 2024 - 04:45

I often work with an undocked Mixer and save the score in that state, but I reopen a score the undocked mixer's width is not the same as when I saved the score.

Usually the Mixer incorrectly shows just one or two tracks ... of five or more tracks that were visible before saving.

Worse, often on reopening a score, the Mixer is so narrow that it looks like a pencil, which had led me to think it was not open. Even toggling it open and closed did not create enough of impact to call my eye to it. especially when its on a second monitor:

MuseScore 4 Mixer minimized.png

This happens at least 80% of the time. And please note: issue pertains only to score saved while the mixer is undocked.

Just writing to see if anyone else has encountered this. I have no idea where the trigger is.

MuseScore 4.2
MacOS 13.5.2, Mackbook Air M2

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Comments

bobjp

• Jan 14, 2024 - 17:29

I've had something similar happen if at some point I've undocked the mixer and dragged one side to get it smaller and out of the way. On lower spec systems it can help to have the mixer open to help playback. But it takes up space. So making it smaller is an answer. And the state of the mixer saves for that score, and every ( or most, at least some ) score after that. Until I redock it and save the score.
But I haven't seen it randomly do it on its own.

scorster

• Jan 21, 2024 - 20:50

If anyone can confirm this errant undocked Mixer behavior and its frequency—at least on the Mac—I would like to post a report to Github.

Nicola Rulli

• Jan 21, 2024 - 23:31

Windows here, I have had the mixer incorrectly default to docking or incorrectly default to being barely as wide as the master track.

scorster

• Jan 22, 2024 - 00:34

> I have had the mixer incorrectly default to docking

So you're saying after saving a score in which the mixer is undocked, sometimes on reopening the score the mixer is docked?

Regarding the prime issue here, thanks for confirming the errantly narrow Mixer on Windows!

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Nicola Rulli

• Jan 22, 2024 - 03:33

Yep, it did so for a few times in a row, then stopped. It also didn't always save the last open/close state, for both mixer and navigator.

dland

• Feb 9, 2024 - 01:26

I don't know if you've reported this on github or not, but if so, I'd like to subscribe to the issue to keep an eye on it.

In the meanwhile, at least under MuseScore version (64-bit): 4.2.1-240230937, revision: d757433 on MacOS 12.7.2, I find that embiggening the mixer to a useful size and then moving it causes it to remember its size.

scorster

• Feb 9, 2024 - 01:33

Thanks. I did post to museScore a couple of weeks ago, but forgot to report back.

Here's the link:

https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/issues/21148

scorster

• Feb 10, 2024 - 05:01

Steps to replicate the Mixer width issue on MacOS in the attached score:

Mixer Width issue MS4.mscz

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