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heckelson

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Registered: 2023-07-27

Posts: 1

[SOLVED] No sound in MuseScore 4.1.0; Missing soundfont "MS Basic"

Problem
There was no sound playing when playing back my music with MuseScore.

Diagnosis
I ran mscore in the terminal and observed the output. It logged something along the lines of "Error: MS Basic soundfont not found" (cannot recall exact wording). Turns out that the /usr/share/mscore-4.1 folder was missing a sound/ directory which usually should contain the soundfont required to play back any notes.

Solution

1. I downloaded the MuseScore AppImage from their website (https://musescore.org/de/download/muses … 4.AppImage). Let's say that the path to the downloaded MuseScore AppImage is ./mscore.AppImage (for consistency in the next steps).

2. I made it executable by running chmod +x mscore.AppImage (not sure if this step is required, I did this to confirm that the AppImage version plays back my music).

3. I extracted the AppImage by running ./mscore.AppImage --extract-appimage.

4. From the newly created squashfs-root/ directory, I copied the squashfs-root/usr/share/mscore4portable-4.1/sound/ directory to /usr/share/mscore-4.1/

5. On relaunching my installation of MuseScore, the sound was now playing.

Just wanted to post this solution here; it seems like something might have gone wrong on one of the MuseScore updates, since the playback did work previously. Maybe an update deleted the sound directory?

Anyway, here are some infos on the versions that I used to perform this:

• Local installation of MuseScore: Version 4.1.0 (OS: Arch Linux, Arch.: x86_64, MuseScore version (64-bit): 4.1.0-, revision: github-musescore-musescore-)

• AppImage version of MuseScore: MuseScore-4.1.1.232071203-x86_64.AppImage

zayn7lie

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Registered: 2023-07-02

Posts: 31

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Re: [SOLVED] No sound in MuseScore 4.1.0; Missing soundfont "MS Basic"

Thanks, it works.

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cazuza

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Registered: 2014-05-04

Posts: 26

Re: [SOLVED] No sound in MuseScore 4.1.0; Missing soundfont "MS Basic"

Hey, I also had the issue and solved it by downgrading the package.

I just wanted to point out that there is a bug open here

Apentulla

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Registered: 2013-04-30

Posts: 1

Re: [SOLVED] No sound in MuseScore 4.1.0; Missing soundfont "MS Basic"

I confirm this solution works. Could you spare a few minutes and post your solution on musescore page? It will be useful. I could do it, too, of course, but it is not my solution.

cazuza

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Registered: 2014-05-04

Posts: 26

Re: [SOLVED] No sound in MuseScore 4.1.0; Missing soundfont "MS Basic"

I don't think we really need to update the archwiki because the problem will be resolved pretty soon. Whenever the packager has time to re-compile it.
I posted the solution here and on the musescore forums thought, as a temporary workaround. Anybody who has the problem and googles it should be able to find the posts.

Eugene

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From: Adelaide, AU

Registered: 2012-11-02

Posts: 13

Re: [SOLVED] No sound in MuseScore 4.1.0; Missing soundfont "MS Basic"

Still the same.
Grabbed it from previous 4.0.1 package, which found in pacman cache under /var/cache/pacman/pkg/musescore-4.0.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
Worst case scenario - download it from archive https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/ … kg.tar.zst

melonarebest

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Registered: 2023-08-23

Posts: 1

Re: [SOLVED] No sound in MuseScore 4.1.0; Missing soundfont "MS Basic"

hello,
the issue still exists in current musescore [4.1.1-1] version.
if someone could please fix the build issue.

according to the bug report [https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/79155?p … =musescore] apparently only setting MUE_INSTALL_SOUNDFONT=ON fixes the issue.

please