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Disconnect between Musescore 4.4 and Muse Sounds Manager #25510

Open cddurham opened 1 day ago

cddurham commented 1 day ago

OS: Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon Musescore 4.4.3.242971445 Muse Sounds Manager 1.1.0.587(x64) beta

I noticed Muse Sounds were not available after upgrade to the version listed above. Diagnostics said library not found. Muse Hub was removed; I read that it was deprecated and Muse Sounds Manager was to be used instead. The current version of Muse Sounds Manager at musescore.org is the beta version listed above. I downloaded that and installed it. Muse Sounds Manager would only start if I invoked it from CLI with sudo. At first, it indicated the sounds were already installed and would not let me reinstall. I deleted them through the manager and reinstalled.

Same problem with Musescore. Log indicated the sample library is not compatible. I then checked the default download location in Manager, which is /root/muse-sounds-manager/downloads. Musescore is expecting a library file at /home/[username]/.local/share/MuseSampler/lib/libMuseSamplerCorelib.so, There is no such file at that location; the fikder is empty.

Instead of a lib file, Manager downloaded a tree. Folder muse-sounds-manager in /root contains folders Installers, Instruments, and .musedl along with two files: .dlcache and .receipt. Folder Installers contains a folder with a long hex number name. That folder contains musesampler-linux-0.6.3.196.tar.zip and musedownload-manifest.json. I could not do anything with the zip file. Folder Instruments contains folders for various instrument types and a file .instruments. Each instrument type folder contains folders for individual instruments; each of these contains a SFZ folder and an optional [instrument name].spx file. The SFZ folder contains a file: [instrument name].sts.

It thus appears Muse Sounds Manager has implemented a file structure different than what MuseScore 4.4 is expecting for Muse Sounds.

MarcSabatella commented 19 hours ago

A new Muse Sounds Manager is expected pretty soon, so this may turn out to be moot, but FWIW, the current version does work in general. It isn't clear what is off on your system - if something went wrong with the installation Muse Sounds Manager, or if something went wrong installing the sounds, or if something is wrong with your installation of MuseScore Studio (are you using the ofificla Appimage? Third party builds often have problems like this).

But on my system, the libMuseSamplerCoreLib.so is indeed present in ~/.local/share/MuseSampler/lib. So I'm assuming that is correct, and the question is, why is it not present on your system.

I'm going to guess it's because you run Msue Sounds Manager under sudo - so then it makes sense it wouldn't install into your home holder. What do you mean when you say it "would only start" if involved with sudo? What went wrong otherwise? Works just fine for me in user mode.

But I'd guess you could also run MuseScore Studio as root and then it might find the Muse Sampelr library wherever Muse Sounds Manager did actually put it.

cddurham commented 8 hours ago

Hi Marc, Thanks for the fast reply. I did install MuseScore from the official appimage. When I try to run Muse Sounds Manager any way except via command line with sudo, nothing happens. I could try reinstalling the manager, but the last time I tried it, it said the latest version was already installed. I had to go in and remove the downloaded file and download again to get it to work. Hopefully the new manager will clear things up. 

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A new Muse Sounds Manager is expected pretty soon, so this may turn out to be moot, but FWIW, the current version does work in general. It isn't clear what is off on your system - if something went wrong with the installation Muse Sounds Manager, or if something went wrong installing the sounds, or if something is wrong with your installation of MuseScore Studio (are you using the ofificla Appimage? Third party builds often have problems like this).

But on my system, the libMuseSamplerCoreLib.so is indeed present in ~/.local/share/MuseSampler/lib. So I'm assuming that is correct, and the question is, why is it not present on your system.

I'm going to guess it's because you run Msue Sounds Manager under sudo - so then it makes sense it wouldn't install into your home holder. What do you mean when you say it "would only start" if involved with sudo? What went wrong otherwise? Works just fine for me in user mode.

But I'd guess you could also run MuseScore Studio as root and then it might find the Muse Sampelr library wherever Muse Sounds Manager did actually put it.

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MarcSabatella commented 5 hours ago

When you say "nothing happens" when you run Muse Sounds Manager without sudo, does the process exit right away and return to a shell prompt, or just hang and never return to the prompt? Is nothing at all printed to the console? Normally it would produce quite a bit of console output even before opening a window. if you're not even seeing that, something definitely seems very strange about your system. it definitely works for others; you are the first person I can recall reporting a problem.