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lucasfergui1024

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Registered: 2025-09-11

Posts: 1

Musescore refuses to play sound

This is not asystem wide issue, other programs play sound fine.

nealfun

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Registered: 2024-08-08

Posts: 13

Re: Musescore refuses to play sound

https://musescore.org/en/node/96811
How to get sound working if you don't hear anything

good luck

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stefano

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Registered: 2011-04-09

Posts: 287

Re: Musescore refuses to play sound

I am having the same problem, and the instructions on Musescore's website are actually useless on Linux. None of the settings and/or remedies they suggest applies. Does anyone have other suggestions?

stefano

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Registered: 2011-04-09

Posts: 287

Re: Musescore refuses to play sound

Actually, I found the solution in an old post on Musescore site: all I had to do was deleting the file .asoundrc from my home directory. Hopefully this will not mess up things later.

williewillus

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Registered: 2011-03-27

Posts: 28

Re: Musescore refuses to play sound

I ran into this issue, manifesting as the playback cursor not moving when pressing the play button.

I tried switching the Audio backend from ALSA to Pipewire in the settings, but that didn't work.

What finally fixed it was installing the `pipewire-alsa` package and restarting Musescore. Seems like that package should at least be an optdepends so people who use Pipewire know it's needed for playback.