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Playback indicator lags playback in continuous view, continues after stop
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Sometimes I'm seeing this issue where the blue line playback indicator visually lags behind the music that is actually playing. And when I press stop, the audio playback stops, but the visual indicator keeps moving forward, slowly, until it finally catches up to the correct point in the score, and then stops.
The longer the playback has been going, the greater the lag that accumulates, and therefore the longer the indicator keeps moving after the end of playback.
It does not happen in "Page view".
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In which versions of MuseScore Studio is this issue present?
OS: macOS Sequoia (15.7.7), Arch.: arm64, MuseScore Studio version (64-bit): 4.7.4-260706075, revision: github-musescore-musescore-7688c00
Regression
Yes, this used to work in a previous version of MuseScore 4.x
Operating system
macOS
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