MuseScore 4 Pipewire still non-functional on the Linux
Hi,
The standard audio system on Linux is now Pipewire instead of Pulseaudio, and the older previous versions of MuseScore (2 and 3) do have a functional implementation of Pipewire connection (on top of initial Pulseaudio support). Some distributions of Linux (such as Arch and Gentoo) package MuseScore 4 with functional Pipewire connection, but there are distros (like Debian) that do not yet have MuseScore 4 which rely on the AppImage, which oddly still doesn't have support for Pipewire.
I think implementation of Pipewire support should be done for the MuseScore 4 AppImage, especially since older versions already have support for the new standard - it's odd for a newer version of the project to be less functional due to being somehow more outdated compared to older versions.
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Update: Gentoo does not. I'm wondering how I got it working in Arch. This makes the case for looking into Pipewire support for Musescore 4 more valuable.
This issue going beyond the AppImage rules out a build error.
The solution of using Musescore 3 can be clunky for one reason or another, and I wish not for it to be made permanent.
Hello, here on archlinux, I struggled a lot with that.
What finaly worked, was to install
pipewire-alsa, restart the pipewire sessionsystemctl --user restart pipewire.serviceand restart musescore (that I got as an AppImage).(and now I still need to work on wayland and get decend rendering)
In reply to Hello, here on archlinux, I… by tristramg@gmail.com
That seems to make sense, I must have had that installed for completeness.
I've recompiled pipewire with the pipewire-alsa flag, which ends up being how that's done in gentooland, and the behaviour has now changed from no playback being possible; playhead not moving at all, nothing audible going on either with heard audio or on visual meters when clicking on notes; to now the playhead moving and audio being visible on the dB meters.
However, still the sound is still not audible. I ran mscore from terminal (
/usr/bin/mscore) and noticed:16:42:50.292 | INFO | main_thread | JackAudioDriver::open | sampleRate used by jack: 4800016:42:50.292 | WARN | main_thread | JackAudioDriver::open | Musescores samplerate: 44100, is NOT the same as jack's: 48000
I wouldn't know how to change this behaviour so that it matches the system sample rate rather than having to do it the other way around. [Edited for formatting]