MP3 repeat

• Jul 23, 2025 - 19:51

While exporting to MP3 a piece of the form
"main body"
repeat "main body"
end and stop
the repeat is ignored and the "main body" is played just once !
When simply playing the same piece in Musescore, all is well
and the repeat is performed.
Any ideas, please?


Comments

In reply to by piskal

Export is correct on my system. But I don't have your version of MuseScore. So there isn't much I can do.
BTW You're Cm guitar chart shows on the incorrect fret in my 4.5.2

In reply to by piskal

I see the same thing Bob does: export works on my system, but I have 4.5.2 as well.

I notice you're using 3.4.0. If you are not ready to upgrade to v.4, you should at least upgrade to 3.6 or the forked 3.7 Evolution.

You wrote:
> Any ideas, please? <

The one thing I can think of is that perhaps you are listening to a MIDI export and not MP3 (a .mid instead of .mp3 file extension).
For MIDI export there is a checkbox for "Expand repeats". In MuseScore 3, the checkbox can be found in Edit > Preferences > Export > MIDI. Also, in both MuseScore 3 and MuseScore 4 the checkbox appears as an option in the export dialog when you select File > Export and then choose MIDI in 'Export to'.
If "Expand repeats" is unchecked, "the repeat is ignored, and the main body is played just once."

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