No playback with Musescore 1.1 in Ubuntu 11.04

[Boz]

Just recently upgraded from 1.0 to 1.1. The sound worked fine in 1.0. Now, the transport buttons are unclickable, and Display > Synthesizer is grayed out. I've tried resetting to default in Edit > Preferences, reinstalling it, using JACK, and running it from the command line with factory settings. Nothing's worked so far! Here's what my terminal looks like when I run Musescore:

Alsa_driver: the interface doesn't support mmap-based access.
init ALSA audio driver failed
init ALSA driver failed
init audio driver failed
sequencer init failed
registerPlugin: add action idx 7
Load plugin: no menu property
preferences.checkUpdateStartup: 720
lastupdate: 22.10.2011 22:34:37.113

I've run apt-get build-dep musescore (and mscore, it redirects to musescore), and I've installed qsynth and timidity, and have several soundfonts installed.

This is a copy of a post in the MuseScore forums: http://musescore.org/en/node/13278

[Thomas Bonte (toemaz)]

Cross reference to a possible solution http://musescore.org/en/node/13278#comment-45422

[Jam (dicenti)]

Make sure you have "snd_seq" in your /etc/modules. My /etc/modules looks like:
lp
sbp2
snd_seq

Also, after starting mscore 1.1, go to preferences, I/O, unclick JACK, and change the ALSA device from "Default" to "hw:0"

The complete process:
1.
sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev libsndfile-dev

2.
sudo apt-get install qtcreator

3.
download the mscore 1.1 source, then unpack, then go to where you unpacked and run:
make clean
make release
sudo make install

4.
add the "snd_seq" to your /etc/modules and reboot.

5.
start mscore, go to preferences, I/O and uncheck everything on the first level, check "Use internal synth" and "ALSA Audio".
change the Alsa device to "hw:0"
close mscore and restart it.

[Thomas Bonte (toemaz)]

Based on the comments on http://musescore.org/en/node/13278#comment-45693, the proposed solution by Jam (dicenti) looks like a winner.

I wonder now how this solution can be turned into a long term solid fix. We don't want end users having to perform the steps to get playback.

[Toby Smithe (tsmithe)]

Hi there,

If you can reproduce this bug, please check how you fare with version 1.2, as published for 11.04 in the mscore-stable PPA[1]. If you can't reproduce it (I struggle), then I'm tempted to close it.

[1] https://launchpad.net/~mscore-ubuntu/+archive/mscore-stable

Best,

Toby

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for musescore (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Matthew (gromituk)]

I have just installed 12.04 (plus updates) on a Dell Mini 10v (MuseScore version 1.2, revision 5470), I got the mmap warning (after saying that PulseAudio was found, but no need to suspend), and I had to change the ALSA device from "Default" to "hw:0" for sound to appear.

[Toby Smithe (tsmithe)]

Hi there,

What happens if you write "plug:pulse" as the ALSA device and then
restarrt MuseScore?

Cheers.

On 8 November 2012 13:27, gromituk <email address hidden> wrote:
> I have just installed 12.04 (plus updates) on a Dell Mini 10v (MuseScore
> version 1.2, revision 5470), I got the mmap warning (after saying that
> PulseAudio was found, but no need to suspend), and I had to change the
> ALSA device from "Default" to "hw:0" for sound to appear.
>
> ** Changed in: musescore (Ubuntu)
> Status: Expired => Confirmed
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[Toby Smithe (tsmithe)]

Hi,

I've just uploaded a new package to the PPA described at [1]. Please can you test to see if the bug is reproducible there. It's quite old now; if I don't hear back in a couple of weeks, I'm going to close it.

Cheers!

[Toby Smithe (tsmithe)]

Closing the bug, as threatened!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package musescore - 1.3+dfsg-2

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musescore (1.3+dfsg-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Remove obsolete mscore.sh script
    (Closes: #714269, #714272, #719615, #737765, #743970;
     LP: #1284273, #880492)
  * Replace 'Conflicts' with 'Breaks' (LP: #1086344)

 -- Toby Smithe <email address hidden> Mon, 12 May 2014 16:34:50 +0100