Want to use JACK and/or the existing Audio Plugins on your system? No problem! I absolutely LOVE AppImage!! The last AV Linux has several AppImages included which even with a great backing Distro and Packagers was the only way to get some apps in their latest versions working properly. I want to keep running Debian oldstable or Manjaro? No problem for the most part the AppImage (with the exception of libc6 versions expiring) will likely run on both if the developer is wise enough to have a mature build system. no extra kludgy frontend software required to search for binaries and install them and uninstall them and update them. one executable file you can put anywhere on your system. You cannot paint these binaries with the same brush, not even close! AppImage. Before long, it will be too late even for them). Packagers (including the endusers who do stuff like AUR) aren't going to avert this trend. I said it before, but people just don't seem to be able to recognize the significance of these trends, so I'll say it again: If music devs don't step up and rally around some "standard base music OS" as a target for their executables, then we're going to end up with only AppImage, Snap, or Flatpack choices. Musescore4.png (148.64 KiB) Viewed 1728 timesīut what concerns me more is a growing trend of developers delivering their binaries in the form of AppImage, Snap, or Flatpack. I don't know how close this is to finished but there is a lot gone from 3. There is some anti aliasing failure with the menu texts. There's no layout customisation any more, the only section I could get to undock is the mixer. They seem to have removed almost all right click menus. looks to have been changed not for user convenience but to highlight their new features "look what we done". In the Score section, there are now two big buttons top centre to select the mixer and parts menus. Home you can login with an account, create and navigate scores, activate plugins and navigate to tutorial videos on youtube. They have added this tab bar with three options "Home" "Score" and "Publish". There is a "basic" soundfont included though. The button didn't work and I can't find a way to get to this prompt again other than using the factory reset option. Then it gave me the option to download their sound library. When I opened it, it came up with setup dialog asking what what colour theme I want. I downloaded the Musescore4 alpha appimage to have a look. Killing JACK shuts the door to linux, at least partially, and it would be an excuse for the company that owns Musescore to say "There are now so few linux users, we can't afford to give a Linux version our valuable dev time, when we reach far more users in Win and Mac." If a user is setting up a serious studio, pulseaudio is unlikely to be part of that. I asked directly if JACK would be included, in response to the above statement, and have yet to get a reply. I hope i'm wrong, but the "we're still going to support Linux" line seems tired and predictable, and a throwaway to deflect having to release a statement. It seems inevitable Linux will be a lower priority. When they start pulling support for features from the Linux builds only then you know the slope is about to get slippery. are they on a throwback Thursday kick or what.? In what universe is SFZ in addition to Soundfont2 not a progressive step forward.? Especially to a big multiplatform Score Editor that wants to run with the big boys Maybe PipeWire too? (dunno, don't care to know yet)īut jeez, removing both VST and SFZ support. If you have a system with PulseAudio bridges working properly with JACK you could still route MuseScore 4 through an operating JACK setup though.
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