While I will remain loyal to the MuseScore notation software, which continues to be top-of-the-line and constantly improving in all regards, the MuseScore.com website, which hosts the scores for most of my compositions on this website, has seen a decline in maintenance and care, and has of late been riddled with various bugs.

For the past years, it has been a known problem that 1.) Scores which have custom audio rarely will play on this website, namely when using Google Chrome. The workaround was to provide a link to a full-screen embedded score which worked most of the time.

However, after a brief period where the problem of the YouTube video used only to obtain custom audio took up a significant amount of real estate on the score (pictured) was ultimately fixed, a new more significant problem has arisen: 

The playback cursor no longer synchronizes to ANY score with custom audio (which makes up the majority of my scores on this website). It instead pretends that it is synchronized to the MIDI version of playback which is not necessarily timed in the exact same manner as the custom audio (given that the majority of my scores were published pre-MuseSounds and I used NotePerformer and custom audio to provide a better mockup).

All future scores published (given that they do not use an instrument not offered by MuseSounds, and no better live performance of the piece exists) will most likely not suffer from this issue, since I will be using the source audio provided by MuseSounds instead of custom audio as it has surpassed NotePerformer's abilities in some aspects.

As such, I will be terminating my "PRO" subscription through MuseScore.com, which allowed me to set the custom audio as the default to the score, effective 9 June, 2024.

I am beginning the slow transition of the majority of my scores to instead be presented through a embedded score video from YouTube.com before this date, which can be seen already completed for Op. 16 - Anxiety! . An option will still exist to view the score on MuseScore.com. 

However, two regressions will exist for these select scores:

1. Effective 9 June, 2024, for the option to get less MIDI-sounding default playback, one will have to use the "synthesizer" menu to adjust the audio source for any scores published before Op. 16.

2. There is no guarantee that the playback cursor will be synchronized to the score, for any scores published before Op. 16.