What's up, RMers?

[kyonides]

I was just trying to implement a playtime bar in HiddenPlayList XP for the HiddenChest engine, when I noticed something. Every MIDI's playback time was quite inaccurate and inconsistent, there was no way to determine whether I needed to increase the seconds by some factor or decrease them.

When this sort of weird stuff happens, there's nothing to do but to go back to the drawing desk, and check the calculations.

The last iteration of my custom engine did a general assumption that ALL of RM's MIDI files broke consistently!

So I was forced to check for ALL of the MIDI's Set Tempo Event messages and get their deltas. This allow the engine to correctly calculate the longest track's duration in seconds based on the preset value of the MSPQN or MPQN aka microseconds per quarter note.

Now I'm tired of dealing with quarter notes, ticks, beats per minute, PPQ aka time division or deltas per beat, and yes, hexadecimal values as well.