There's a bug in Musescore's web interface that I'm seeing quite
consistently, which their developers seem not to be able to reproduce.
I have several scores on their server which are quite short but which
feature many repeats, resulting in a fairly long play duration.
(They're Shepard tones, done as scales.) That duration is shown at the
top left of the score, as displayed in a web browser, and should be
3:19:48. But every browser I've tried, with a variety of setup options,
on two machines at home and on one at my library, shows it as 27:19:48
-- that is, an extra day tacked on. The pieces are monotonous, but not
that monotonous..!

If you wouldn't mind, would you please take a look at:
https://musescore.com/user/28554317/scores/9087566, and let me know what
duration you see just above the upper left corner of the score? (At the
library, I had to expand the page to "full screen" mode with a button at
the top left in order to see the duration display. I don't know why
that was different from my machines at home; it may be a matter of
screen resolution.) It might also be useful to me to know what
operating system and browser you used.

Thanks!
Joel

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On 06/01/2023 06:37, Joel Polowin wrote:
> There's a bug in Musescore's web interface that I'm seeing quite
> consistently, which their developers seem not to be able to reproduce. I
> have several scores on their server which are quite short but which
> feature many repeats, resulting in a fairly long play duration. (They're
> Shepard tones, done as scales.)  That duration is shown at the top left
> of the score, as displayed in a web browser, and should be 3:19:48.  But
> every browser I've tried, with a variety of setup options, on two
> machines at home and on one at my library, shows it as 27:19:48 -- that
> is, an extra day tacked on.  The pieces are monotonous, but not that
> monotonous..!
>
> If you wouldn't mind, would you please take a look at:
> https://musescore.com/user/28554317/scores/9087566, and let me know what
> duration you see just above the upper left corner of the score?  (At the
> library, I had to expand the page to "full screen" mode with a button at
> the top left in order to see the duration display.  I don't know why
> that was different from my machines at home; it may be a matter of
> screen resolution.)  It might also be useful to me to know what
> operating system and browser you used.
>
> Thanks!
> Joel
>

3:19:48 on linux Ubuntu 20.10 viewing through Vivaldi 5.6.287...

HTH
Chris

On Friday, January 6, 2023 at 6:40:10 AM UTC-8, chr...@privacy.net wrote:
> On 06/01/2023 06:37, Joel Polowin wrote:
> > There's a bug in Musescore's web interface that I'm seeing quite
> > consistently, which their developers seem not to be able to reproduce. I
> > have several scores on their server which are quite short but which
> > feature many repeats, resulting in a fairly long play duration. (They're
> > Shepard tones, done as scales.) That duration is shown at the top left
> > of the score, as displayed in a web browser, and should be 3:19:48. But
> > every browser I've tried, with a variety of setup options, on two
> > machines at home and on one at my library, shows it as 27:19:48 -- that
> > is, an extra day tacked on. The pieces are monotonous, but not that
> > monotonous..!
> >
> > If you wouldn't mind, would you please take a look at:
> > https://musescore.com/user/28554317/scores/9087566, and let me know what
> > duration you see just above the upper left corner of the score? (At the
> > library, I had to expand the page to "full screen" mode with a button at
> > the top left in order to see the duration display. I don't know why
> > that was different from my machines at home; it may be a matter of
> > screen resolution.) It might also be useful to me to know what
> > operating system and browser you used.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Joel
> >
> 3:19:48 on linux Ubuntu 20.10 viewing through Vivaldi 5.6.287...
>
> HTH
> Chris

I get 27:19:48.

Chrome
Version 108.0.5359.125 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Microsoft Windows 10 Home
10.0.1944 Build 19044

David

On 2023-01-06 1:37 AM, Joel Polowin wrote:
> There's a bug in Musescore's web interface that I'm seeing quite
> consistently, which their developers seem not to be able to reproduce.
> I have several scores on their server which are quite short but which
> feature many repeats, resulting in a fairly long play duration.
> (They're Shepard tones, done as scales.) That duration is shown at the
> top left of the score, as displayed in a web browser, and should be
> 3:19:48. But every browser I've tried, with a variety of setup options,
> on two machines at home and on one at my library, shows it as 27:19:48
> -- that is, an extra day tacked on. The pieces are monotonous, but not
> that monotonous..!
>
> If you wouldn't mind, would you please take a look at:
> https://musescore.com/user/28554317/scores/9087566, and let me know what
> duration you see just above the upper left corner of the score? (At the
> library, I had to expand the page to "full screen" mode with a button at
> the top left in order to see the duration display. I don't know why
> that was different from my machines at home; it may be a matter of
> screen resolution.) It might also be useful to me to know what
> operating system and browser you used.

The bug is affected by the OS time zone. If I set my machine's time
zone to, say, Buenos Aires (UTC-03:00), the duration is displayed
correctly. If I set it to Atlantic time (UTC-04:00), the duration is
off by 24 hours. And if I change to Newfoundland time (UTC-03:30), the
display is very​ messed up -- at the beginning of the piece, the
displayed time is ".5:30:00 / .5:49:48". I haven't tested rigorously,
but broadly speaking, time zones east of UTC-03:00 give correct
displays, while zones west of UTC-04:00 show the bug.

I'm guessing that the problem involves the duration of the piece
relative to one's time zone offset from UTC. A piece that's 1:00:00 in
duration displays correctly in UTC-01:00, but shows as 25:00:00 in
UTC-02:00.

Joel

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