DS al Coda before 2nd repeat fails in Dorico 5.1

I have a piece with verse 1 followed by a chorus. As the chorus lyrics and melody repeats twice, I have made a 1st and 2nd repeat. The 2nd repeat has the same lyric and note, however with a different chord progression D A7#5 D including the 1st eight not of verse 2. The piece again goes back to start repeats the chorus and moves up a half step from the chorus in D to the final chorus in Eb, which starts with the chorus ending in D and chord Bb7 on the 4th beat leads to Eb.

The property setting of the DS al Coda has the replay repeats button and checkbox activated, see screenshot. The DS al Coda starts with verse 2 comes to Coda sign (before the 1st repeat), however does not repeat the 1st chorus repeat. I would expect the jump only after the 2nd time to the chorus in Eb. I also tried a simple repeat instead of 1st and 2nd repeat, however the chorus after the verse 2 has only repeated once and jumped directly to the chorus in Eb. Does this property setting of Replay repeats not work anymore? Have I overlooked something or not done correct? Or is there any other solution?


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By the way such problem with “Replay repeats” has been mentioned in a similar issue “Playback repeats, D.S al coda,… where WimLas mentions on Aug 31 “no matter what you do or don’t, playback completely ignores the instructions set.”

I think it plays correctly (but not as you intend).

Having triggered the DS al coda, when it next encounters the To Coda, it jumps. It never reaches the repeat at the end of the 1st time bar.

Just copy the flow, delete the DS al Coda and replace it with DS without a ToCoda jump, then after verse 2 the chorus does not play 1st repeat at all, it goes directly to the 2nd repeat. I think this problem must be solved first. The function in the property setting of DS with activating Replay repeats button and checkbox is definitely not working.

It’s a known limitation that after a D.C./D.S. jump, Dorico only replays the first set of repeats it encounters after the jump back. It’s something we plan to return to in future. Sorry for the inconvenience in the meantime.

Thank you for your feedback. Good to know, then I will not use the repeat in this case for the replay. I will appreciate to have this function back in the future.