Thread: Fixed Bug 3.0 MA3 closes down after 5 minutes.
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Old 04-02-2009, 07:53 PM   #41
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You can delete it. It should not (by default) enter a path. The name in the list should just be CanonGuitar.sgt. When the program starts up, it looks for an MA3Playlist.lst file. If it doesn't find one, it will be created, and "CanonGuitar.sgt" will be written as the only entry. When it comes time to play music and the program encounters that exact text string, it will play the MIDI file from its own Resource.

Since Cliff mentioned converting the MIDI file to MP3, here's an interesting aside: Though MP3 is far more economical in terms of bytes than previous formats, it pales in comparison to MIDI. An MP3 file is about 1 meg per minute of music, so a 5-minute piece would be about 5 megs. My default MIDI file is over 5 minutes of music, but even including the high-quality string guitar waveforem, only adds 114k to the MA3 zip filesize. That's 1/40 the size of an MP3 file.
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