musescore / musescore/MuseScore

It would be useful to have a looping option for export to MP3, OGG, etc,

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Description

Task description
Some musical pieces - such as background music for video games or animation - needs to loop seamlessly with the end of the piece connecting seamlessly back to the start. Currently if you wish to do this with music exported from Musescore, you need to open it in Audacity, duplicate a chunk of the start, move it to the end, overlay it with the end of the trtack, and then fiddle with the starting and ending time of the clip.

It would be really useful if the export options provided a 'looping' checkbox so that this wrap around was done automatically for you when you export the clip.

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Research direction

Start by locating MuseScore's export options for MP3, OGG, and similar audio formats, then trace how the exported clip is assembled. Define how the proposed looping option should create a seamless end-to-start transition, and verify the result for the requested formats.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
audio-video-rtc, desktop
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
38/100

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