If joining scores via album, instruments/staves get lost.

• Nov 14, 2014 - 12:41
Type
Functional
Severity
S4 - Minor
Status
active
Project
MuseScore

If joining scores via album, instruments/staves get lost.
if the 1st score contains just one instrument/staff, but a subsequent one contains more, those additional instruments/staves are not in the joined score
data loss -> critical

self-built c13a719, Windows 7 (Enterprise, 64bit)

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• Nov 14, 2014 - 15:46

I believe this is a feature request. The album feature was never meant to join scores with different numbers of instruments since MuseScore doesn't support the creation of such a score.

Still it shouldn't crash but warn the user that the number of staves is different and that it will not work.

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• Nov 14, 2014 - 15:52

it doesn't crash, it just loses those staves, which is bad enough
It should add them and, if not done already, switch on 'hide empty staves' I think?
For me an album is a collections of related items, for e.g. fotos it could be b/w and color, landscape and portrait, loosing color and portrait, just because the 1st picture is b/w and landscape, is not good

But indeed at the very least it should emit a warning.

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• Jan 19, 2015 - 14:58

#40251: joining scores via album requires all scores to have the same number of parts and staves is a feature request, this here is a bug and it is data loss in the sense that you may not notice it. The feature request may inclove needed 2 passes, one to collect all staves needed, than a 2nd to copy all tha data.
This here may get away with just a warning message '"subsequent score has more staves than first, these 'excess' staves will get ignored on the merge" or some such

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