musescore / musescore/MuseScore
Add style option to disable 'Play' property for chord symbols
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Description
Use case
If a user wants to ensure that all their scores are uploaded to musescore.com without chord symbols playing back, right now they have to either:
- Mute the chord symbol mixer track(s)
- Select all chord symbols and turn off the Play property
Proposed solution
In order to be able to create templates where this happens automatically, we could add a checkbox to the Style dialog to 'Play chord symbols' that is on by default. Turning it off would uncheck the Play property for all chord symbols in the score.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the Style dialog and the chord-symbol handling for the existing Play property. Trace how a score-wide style setting reaches chord symbols and how templates preserve it. Done means the dialog has a default-on “Play chord symbols” option, and turning it off disables playback for all chord symbols in the score.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100