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Note played in multiple staves cut short

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Since Jun 13, 2025.

needs review playback regression MS3
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Description

Issue type

General playback bug

Description with steps to reproduce

See https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/issues/13853.

When the same note is played in multiple staves with different durations, playback is cut short to the first ending of a note. (This type of writing is found with some degree of regularity in organ scores; putting the staves in different voices does fix playback.)

Expected: the note is rearticulated at the beginning of each note, and then held until the end of the last note.

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What is the latest version of MuseScore Studio where this issue is present?

4.5.2-251141402; also verified on latest nightly

Regression

Yes, this used to work in MuseScore 3.x and now is broken

Operating system

Windows 10 22H2

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