[SOLVED] No sound, no score tracking on "Play" > Ubuntu-24.04 + MuseScore-Studio-4.5.2
MuseScore-Studio-4.5.2.251141401-x86_64.AppImage
Ubuntu-24.04.x LTS
Installed these yesterday, triple checked everything, there seem to be 2 major issues:
1. Hitting [Play] button does not start tracking the score - no noticeable action / movement
2. No sound at all, not the least noise or visual feedback
Note: Muse_Hub.deb is installed and sounds are reported to having been downloaded successfully.
NB: I have been using MuseScore for years and until MuseScore-v4.4 (AppImage) worked nice. I suspect sth. being wrong with the AppImage itself.
Comments
Try: sudo apt install pipewire-alsa
from https://musescore.org/en/node/363357#comment-1289761
In reply to Try: sudo apt install… by mercuree
Thank you for the hint, but it didn't solve the issue because
pipewire-alsawas already installed:sudo apt install pipewire-alsaReading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
pipewire-alsa is already the newest version (1.0.5-1ubuntu3).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 25 not upgraded.
As I wrote, it's not only the sound: MuseScore even does not start tracking the score when hitting the
[Play]button.To narrow the issue, I installed the Flatpak version also. Sound and score scrolling worked instantly. Unfortunately the Flatpak is still MuseScore-Studio-4.5.1 and it seams some MuseHub / MuseSampler stuff is missing. It looks and behaves like MuseScore-Studio-4.4 at first sight.
In reply to Thank you for the hint, but… by EsDur
Nothing in the log?
I would first try Help > Revert to factory settings
SOLVED
Here are the relevant (for my situation) steps I did:
Mandatory: Installing PulseAudio bridge plugin
sudo apt update # as always to confirm the system is up-to-datesudo apt install libasound2-plugins # this missed and was the culprit
Optional: Clean up abandoned and/or blocking IPC sockets
rm -rf /tmp/MuseScore* /tmp/mscore*Optional: Check PipeWire service was launched on system startup
systemctl --user status pipewire-pulse.service... you should see something like this in the output:
`● pipewire-pulse.service - PipeWire PulseAudio
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire-pulse.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Thu 2025-05-01 07:57:38 CEST; 2h 44min ago
TriggeredBy: ● pipewire-pulse.socket
Main PID: 2120 (pipewire-pulse)
Tasks: 3 (limit: 38215)
Memory: 13.8M (peak: 14.9M)
CPU: 57.866s
CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/pipewire-pulse.service
└─2120 /usr/bin/pipewire-pulse
Mai 01 07:57:38 orion systemd[2101]: Started pipewire-pulse.service - PipeWire PulseAudio.`
Optional: Further debugging with MuseScore factory reset and logging
MuseScore-Studio-4.5.2.x86_64.AppImage -F -d# use your executables file name, of courseHope this may be helpful to other Linux AppImage users - good luck!