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Overriding appearance of note duration in parts leads to desynchronized score/part
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Description
Issue type
UX/Interaction bug (incorrect behaviour)
Description with steps to reproduce
- Open a score that contains parts.
- In Properties, change the appearance of the note so that its value is different from its entered duration: for example, I regularly enter whole notes that must look like breves if using bar lines/defined meter in early music in order to signal that the note is long (akin to a fermata).
- The toggles for syncing the score and the part are both ON when the appearance is automatically set, but changing this desyncs the appearance: a whole note shows in the score: no manual intervention is required.
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In which versions of MuseScore Studio is this issue present?
4.7.4
Regression
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Operating system
macOS 15.7.7
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Research direction
Reproduce this in MuseScore 4.7.4 with a score containing parts, using Properties to change a note's displayed value from its entered duration. Compare the score and part with both synchronization toggles enabled; done when changing the note's appearance no longer desynchronizes them.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 50/100