[SOLVED] MuseScore in F17

[Tedel]

Hello,

This was kind of hard, so I'm just sharing in case it's of any use for anyone else.

How to install:
This part is easy: Just open a terminal and under superuser, type:
yum install mscore

But there was a problem:
After installing MuseScore you had no sound... despite the fact the installation grabbed at least one soundfont as dependency.

How I solved it:
I installed JACK audio server in my system, and Qsynth or Qjackctl as a GUI to manage it. In my experience, Qsynth was easier to configure, so I suggest using that one.

In Qsynth, I clicked on setup, changed MIDI driver to "jack", then selected a soundfont on... well... Soundfonts.
After that, I opened MuseScore, went to edit > preferences > I/O and checked "use internal synthetizer" and "JACK audio server", unchecking the rest.

After this, I closed and restarted MuseScore. I had sound now.

Beautiful...

---------- Post added at 09:21 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:19 PM ----------

Almost forgot... You need to start Qsynth and activate the JACK audio server there before every time you will open MuseScore. If you forget, you won't have sound again.

[frankif]

well I tried your fix but it did not work for me when I start mscore from the comand line this is what I get

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Alsa_driver: Cannot open PCM device hw:0 for playback.
init ALSA audio driver failed
init ALSA driver failed
init audio driver failed
sequencer init failed
registerPlugin: add action idx 1
Load plugin: no menu property
preferences.checkUpdateStartup: 720
lastupdate: 23.08.2012 22:23:34.547
no valid pixmap /usr/share/mscore-1.1/wallpaper/paper5.png
no valid pixmap /usr/share/mscore-1.1/wallpaper/paper5.png
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any Ideas how I fix this?

---------- Post added at 12:00 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:51 AM ----------

what a fool I am I was able to start Jack with qjackctl

Originally Posted by frankif

well I tried your fix but it did not work for me when I start mscore from the comand line this is what I get

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Alsa_driver: Cannot open PCM device hw:0 for playback.
init ALSA audio driver failed
init ALSA driver failed
init audio driver failed
sequencer init failed
registerPlugin: add action idx 1
Load plugin: no menu property
preferences.checkUpdateStartup: 720
lastupdate: 23.08.2012 22:23:34.547
no valid pixmap /usr/share/mscore-1.1/wallpaper/paper5.png
no valid pixmap /usr/share/mscore-1.1/wallpaper/paper5.png
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
any Ideas how I fix this?

thanks for your Info it's working now