>> If you restart a score if you are fixing up notation after the 8va line is inserted into the score, it plays back at normal pitch. I believe this is a known one.
I have never encountered this issue, cannot replicate it, and have not seen reports of it. It is often overlooked that for playback of 8va lines, you must start playback before the beginning of the 8va line. Perhaps this is your issue?
>> The way around it is to delete the 8va line that has a length more than one bar, and then replace all of the individual bars that fall under that line, with individual 8va lines for each bar.
This is a "fix" for the wrong issue. Many more 8va lines will give many more opportunities to start playback in different places with correct behaviour since there are more instances of the start of an 8va line.
You can't expect to start playback just anywhere under an 8va line with the assumption that the octave transposition will work, because the flag that triggers 8va playback is encoded at the beginning of the line, and the end of the line turns it off. Similarly, if you click individual notes under an 8va line, they will not play back 8va.
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