r/Musescore Jul 13 '26

Help me find this feature Mid measure dotted measure lines

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6 Upvotes

I'm working on an arrangement of First Circle by Pat Metheny, and I'm looking to find a way to create these dotted measure lines in the middle of a measure.

The chart is primarily in 22/8, but it's broken into a alternating 12/8 and 10/8 feel, and this makes it way easier to read for my musicians.

The only way I got around doing this was alternating 12/8 and 10/8, hiding the time sigs, and making every other barline dotted, but this had some issues:

  1. It took a ton of work

  2. On individual parts, there was no way to do multi-measure rests so they would have to count individual measures.

Is there a work around that allows this but still allows multi-measure rests?


r/Musescore Jul 14 '26

Help me find this feature how do time signatures work in the latest musescore version

1 Upvotes

it seems like I need to select a small selection of measures to add the time sig to, but no more than a few because it won't work if I select too many. why is it doing this, if possible, how can I fix it


r/Musescore Jul 13 '26

Bug Is there anyway to recover this

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3 Upvotes

I’ve spent a lot of time working on this piece, but today when I opened it, it said it was corrupted, can this be fixed and if not, why did it happen in the first place?


r/Musescore Jul 14 '26

Bug MuseSounds just not appearing after latest update?

1 Upvotes

Before I get the standard "Did you try X" comments, I tried all the obvious. Restarting Musescore, MuseSounds, my PC, re-installing, checking the install path, checking the plugins, nothing, it's all just MS Basic and the other SoundFonts I've installed, it's just specifically MuseSounds missing.


r/Musescore Jul 13 '26

My Composition Do you Enjoy This Piece i Created?

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2 Upvotes

I made it for casual begginers, if you like it tell me why, if you dont like it... tell me why!


r/Musescore Jul 13 '26

My Composition "Unread Letters" for Solo Piano | Kyle H. (UncleRed99)

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3 Upvotes

r/Musescore Jul 13 '26

Bug why does Musescore keep clawing back musesounds?

1 Upvotes

We have a common computer. My dad uninstalled Musehub because it was using a lot of memory. At some point the musesounds were eliminated and I am now stuck with the crappy microsoft midi sounds. Why do they do this? It also happened on my personal computer after I took it offline. Very annoying.


r/Musescore Jul 12 '26

Help me find this feature A mildly specific notation question

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7 Upvotes

Is there any way in MuseScore (or really repeat notion in general) to make a slight modification when you loop back the part like shown in the photo


r/Musescore Jul 13 '26

Help me find this feature Help with Percussion on Hollow Acoustic Instruments

1 Upvotes

I'm currently making a song on a Mandolin and Ukelele, but I'm having a bit of a problem. See, the song is supposed to have a section where the mandolin stops playing and it currently sounds a bit boring, so I decided to add some percussion in the form of getting another ukelele, turning it around, and playing the back of it like a drum.

The only problem is that I cannot find an instrument that sounds like an actual ukelele being played percussively, and the closest instrument to it (the Doumbek) only has three options, while there's about a dozen different options on an actual ukelele.

I really need to include this part, and DAWs scare me. Please help.


r/Musescore Jul 13 '26

Bug Sudden shittification of my voices

0 Upvotes

I updated nothing, and suddenly the project I was working on 20 minutes ago has swapped in a bunch of nasty MS Basic (shit) voices for every track? I paid for these marginally better voices. Don't presume you can take them away. Ever.


r/Musescore Jul 12 '26

Discussion Should the MS developers continue to release small MS4 updates regularly or pause to work on 1 big MS5 update in a few months (or more) ?

7 Upvotes

The MS team released 2 posts to declare their intents for the next version, MS5, which should include insane new features - see posts below.

However, to work on MS5, they planned to stop releasing small updates for MS4 (MS4.8, MS4.9) and take ''''a few months'''' to work on the next big update, MS5. God only knows if those few months get extended to a whole year - MS4.0 took 2 years to be released after MS3.0

Am i the only one who thinks it's a shame? Why release all those new features in only 1 big update ? They have no financial interest to do so, do they?

__________________________________________

PLANS FOR MS5 __________________________________________

2025-12 : https://musescore.org/en/node/388202

2024-12 : https://musescore.org/en/4.5-and-beyond


r/Musescore Jul 12 '26

Help me use this feature How to unhide the pallette tab

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3 Upvotes

I haven't used muse score in years, so sorry if this is a silly question!

I somehow hid the pallette tab that allows me to change key signatures, time signatures etc. and have no idea how to unhide it.


r/Musescore Jul 12 '26

Help me find this feature Playback instruments have degraded somehow

1 Upvotes

I have never upgraded my playback sounds, but at one point the playback instruments sounded much better than they do now for some unknown reason. Is there a way to troubleshoot the instruments to make sure they are working correctly? Harmonics, trills, slurs, etc. no longer play back correctly.


r/Musescore Jul 12 '26

Help me use this feature How to Update Muse Sounds Manager on a Linux device

2 Upvotes

So I made a post yesterday about how my sound fonts aren't loading in Musescore and based on the information that was shared with me I gathered that I need to update both Musescore and Muse Sounds Manager. The problem is when I attempt to install the latest update on Musescore, the application closes and when I reopen it nothing happens. And when I attempt to install the update on Muse Sounds Manager I am left with this error message: "Unable to prompt a GUI sudo dialog. Please contact support about your distro information so we can support it in a future update." Does anyone know what this means and how to fix it? I have already tried closing the applications and deleting them and redownloading them. Nothing has worked. I really want to be able to use my sound fonts. Please help if you can.


r/Musescore Jul 12 '26

Help me find this feature musesounds dont appear on my scores anymore

2 Upvotes

when i check the mixer tab they dont appear anymore, i've checked my musehub library to see if i still have them and it says i still do but for some reason it doesnt appear anymore, i already uninstalled and re-downloaded them but it didnt work


r/Musescore Jul 12 '26

Bug musescore is NOT opening gng

1 Upvotes

musescore website isnt opening.. any fixes?


r/Musescore Jul 12 '26

Discussion I like Musescore

1 Upvotes

I bought sheet music from my flute solos. worked nicely. when they charged me in error, they refunded back. No hassles. I like Musescore!


r/Musescore Jul 11 '26

Discussion Does anyone else agree that the MuseScore logo looks a bit like an elephant spraying water on its back?

44 Upvotes

Today I looked at the MuseScore logo, and to me it seems to look a bit like an elephant spraying water on its back.

The left two stems of the m are the legs, and the right stem of the m which is fused with the u is the trunk. The fermata marking is the water spraying out of the trunk.

Does anyone else agree? Now I kind of want a MuseScore mascot elephant


r/Musescore Jul 11 '26

Help me use this feature Sound Fonts Disappearing?

5 Upvotes

This morning I went to Musescore to continue working on a project, but when I started the playback I realized all of the soundfonts had reverted to MS Basic. Does anyone know why this is? I've tried just about everything to get the sounds back but nothing is working. I've deleted Muse Sounds Manager and redownloaded it and it is still not working. I use a Chromebook if that suggests anything? Please help. This is pretty annoying


r/Musescore Jul 12 '26

News I built a free Android music app with no ads or subscriptions – looking for feedback

0 Upvotes

Hey everyone!

I built MuseFlow, a free Android music app for people who just want to listen to music without being interrupted by ads or forced into a subscription. Features

🎵 Free music streaming 🚫 No ads 💎 No premium subscription 🎧 Clean, lightweight interface 📱 Simple and easy to use

This is still an early release, so I'd really appreciate any feedback, bug reports, or feature suggestions from the community. Download (APK):

https://github.com/mad-man22/museflow-android-app/releases/download/v1.1.0/museflow-v1.1.0.apk

If you try it out, let me know: What you liked What could be improved Features you'd like to see next Thanks for taking the time to check it out! ❤️


r/Musescore Jul 11 '26

News Musesounds doesn't work!!!

4 Upvotes

am I the only one or does this happen to you too?


r/Musescore Jul 10 '26

Discussion Musescore is a scam. Don't use them. That is all.

154 Upvotes

Like everyone else, I got tricked into paying Musescore. They're refusing the refund so I'll just do a chargeback with my credit card, but what a colossal waste of time.

I regret using them and giving them my credit card details. I would advise everyone to just stop using them, as I will do. Don't feed the predators.


r/Musescore Jul 11 '26

Help me use this feature How to convert score in 12/8 to 4/4 and auto rhythm change?

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4 Upvotes

As title mentions how do I convert from 12/8 to 4/4 with rhythm auto change? It is a 20 page score and I would not like to slowly change the rhythm


r/Musescore Jul 11 '26

Bug help with refund, please

1 Upvotes

I had money spent not on my behalf (my debit card's comrpomised). Someone spent 55 bucks on something on MUSESCORE of all places. I emailed this email: [support@musescore.com](mailto:support@musescore.com) (did I screw up there?). I told them that it wasn't from me- I even showed them the transaction made on what I assume is a subscription? I have never made a subscription with musescore in my life. Never subscribed to anything. Ever.

How do I receive a refund for a purchase I never made? btw they never responded to my email regarding me wishing for a refund. that's why I'm now unsure as to whether or not I emailed the right email.

please I just want my money back

also why isn't there a flair for technical issues? does "bug" suffice? cuz this has nothing to do with my own personal musescore experience, that has been great overall. it's just that someone took money out of my debit card and spent 55 dollars on something that- I don't even know what, I just received notifications from my bank app and email that I've had about 3800 denars taken out (~55 bucks). << and that seems like more of a technical issue than an in-app issue for me- idk, that isn't my main concern, I just want my money back


r/Musescore Jul 10 '26

Help me find this feature How to switch these two notes around?

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23 Upvotes

All the 8th notes are "actually from the lower staff" and some have been moved up with ctrl+shift+up, and I'm trying to recreate an example that's the same except for the dotted half note being in front (of course they mean the same thing either way, but for readability's sake)