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The player status dialog can be displayed while playing a MIDI song with internal player. It contains information about the playing position and has button controls to navigate the player.
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Player status information
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| path of the currently played MIDI file
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| current play (or pause) time position (in minutes:seconds.milliseconds). While the player is paused it is allowed to enter a new play time position into the edit field. After short pause the song plays from the position if the entered value is a valid play time.
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| Possible inputs are: 120 (second), 1:30 (minute:second), 3:22.350 (minute:second:millisecond)
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| current MIDI position (in MIDI units). While the MIDI player is paused it is allowed to enter a new play unit position (a number) into the edit field. After short time the song plays from the unit position if it was a valid unit number within song.
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| current MIDI tempo (in bpm)
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| current measure length (in nominator/denominator)
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| current MIDI song position (measure number, beat number) e.g. counts 23:1, 23:2, 23:3, 23:4 in a 4/4 measure. While the player is paused it is allowed to enter a new MIDI song position into the edit field. After short time the song plays from the song position if it is a valid position within the song.
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| Possible inputs are: 47 (measure number counting beginning from 1), 23:3 (measure number and beat number counting from 1).
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| the drop down box contains marker text found in the MIDI file which are sorted by time. During playing the marker directly before current playing position will be displayed. After selecting a marker from the box the player jumps to the marker position in the song. Markers usually define beginnings of sections (e.g. intro, refrain, verse) or notices to positions in the song (e.g. contra point, scalar transposition ...).
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Stop
| stops playing the song
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Play
| starts or continues to play current song
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Pause
| pauses current song
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Backward
| jumps to position 15 seconds before current position
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Position slider
| the slider shows current song playing position relative to song duration. The duration between the position markers is 30 seconds. You can drag the thumb by clicking left mouse button on the thumb and move the mouse. The player will jump to the position where the mouse button is released.
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Forward
| jumps to position 15 seconds after current position
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| Using the begin loop [--> and end loop <--] buttons a time range can be defined where the player loops.
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| First button click sets a position. Second button click removes the position (no loop).
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| The loop position times are shown near the buttons and a valid loop range is highlighted in the position slider.
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