[MU4 Issue] Name & settings keep reverting to defaults each time I publish a score

[MarcSabatella]

Describe the bug In at least one of my scores, each time I publish to musescore.com, the title in the initial publish dialog as well as the genre and the rights settings in the dialog that opens after the upload completes keep resetting to default

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Create a score, and don't give it a title
2. Save the score
3. Publish to musescore.com and accept the default title suggestion, which is the filename)
4. Change the title, genre, and rights after upload
5. Save the score normally again
6. Reload the score
7. Publish again
8. See error: the initial publish dialog shows the filename as the title, not the one you entered previously at step 4. And when the upload completes, the dialog shows the default genre and rights as well

Expected behavior The settings I made on the first previous upload should be preserved

Platform information

• OS: Linux

Additional context The title problem doesn't happen with every score I have, and I think the difference is, whether the title was set in the initial publish dialog or whether it was changed later. It seems whatever you set in the initial publish dialog on first upload, you're stuck with on each subsequent update. The resetting of genre & rights happens every single time though. And for some reason, musescore.com has apparently decided every single score I create is "jazz". I gather that's not the default for everyone, but it is for me it seems.

BTW, it's also the case that if in step 4, I had set the score to unlisted, this also is lost. I understand it's by design, but I'd strongly suggest this design should be changed. What's the point of having an unlisted setting in the first place if it's going to revert to private on every update?

See also https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/issues/13968, which is about a similar issue but with "save online" instead of "publish".

[kovianyo]

I have this score for example (sorry for the accented characters): https://musescore.com/user/443/scores/9100706.

When I download the mscz, open the mscz in Musescore 4, choose 'Publish to MuseCore.com...', in the dialog I get the 'Name' filed populated with the filename (although in the 'Project properties' the 'Work title' is set correctly), and I guess this 'Name' gets used as the title, overwriting the title previously set.

'Copyright and download settings' gets also reset, I would prefer it to keep the values I have set previously.

OS: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS, Arch.: x86_64, MuseScore version (64-bit): 4.0.0-223472159, revision: github-musescore-musescore-5485621

[GrahamDickins]

Thank you, Marc.

Just to echo that I have also experienced this ongoing issue with certain Project properties metadata being wiped (ie, not saving); namely, if I try to update the Work title, the Creation date string will dissappear when I click OK, so have to re-enter it every time alongside the Work title.

I hope this can be resolved in the not-too distant future.

Kind regards, Graham

PS version + revision paste: OS: Windows 11 Version 2009 or later, Arch.: x86_64, MuseScore Studio version (64-bit): 4.4.2-242570931, revision: github-musescore-musescore-3130f97

[MarcSabatella]

I think what you are describing is unrelated. The issue I reported here was about the musescore.com website, not about Project properties, and it appears to have been fixed years ago. If you are encountering some sort of issue with Project properties, please open a new report, and be sure to ZIP and attach your score and give precise steps to reproduce the problem.