Play back, no focus at stop
Hi everyone, I am tremendously enjoying and using Musescore. My problem: when I stop the play back (e.g. because I heard a mistake) I cannot see where the play back stopped, no cursor/highlight/focus.
Am I missing something or is this something that might need (great) attention?
Things like beams not avoiding collisions after change of layout and strange preference for flats during midi keyboard input: next time:-)
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Did you perhaps turn off the option for the score to follow playback? It's on by default, so when playback finishes, it should already be positioned correctly, becuase there was no point where it wasn't. This is the icon right next to the metronome.
Also, MIDI has no way of recording if an accidental should be spelled with a flat or sharp. museScore makes a guess based on which is more closely related to the key signature, so it obviously helps if your MIDI file has the correct key signature.
In reply to Did you perhaps turn off the by Marc Sabatella
No, of course I follows playback but I am publishing hand written music. When I play back I read the music I just copied to see if everything is there and no mistakes. When I discover a mistake I stop playback, I will be at the write page but where on the page, the cursor disappears when it stops...
I can agree that a marker might help here. Meantime, if you press Spacebar again a couple of times the view will jump to the part of the score where playback resumes.
Unrelated, I notice that you are placing lyrics between the staves based on the notes in the lower stave and it looks as though you have been moving them all manually and setting spacers to get the staves the correct distance apart. If you go into Style> Text> Lyrics Odd Lines and set Offset> Vertical to -6 or thereabouts this should place the lyrics where you want them. Then if you right-click on the T/B stave and choose Stave Properties and set £Extra distance above stave" to 5 or thereabouts I think you will get the spacing that you want.
In reply to I can agree that a marker by underquark
"you are placing lyrics between the staves based on the notes in the lower stave and it looks as though you have been moving them all manually"
At what music are you looking? I am not doing any music with lyrics (now) and there are no scores on line by me...
Thanks for the response, indeed hitting the spacebar is partially a solution.
Sorry, utterly unrelated it would seem (I thought I was looking at an attachment from one of your posts but made a mistake).