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afritz1
Some MIDIs do not loop
The MIDI tracks PERCNTRO.XMI and SHEET.XMI loop over and over, but SUNNYDAY.XMI (in the game world) only plays once.
This seems to be a problem with the song, or at least how it's interpreted by WildMIDI. I remember having the same issue with some of Daggerfall's songs too (some of which are the same as Arena's, but in HMI format). Ultimately the problem is that the song has a really really really large delay specified before the end of the song (SUNNYDAY.XMI is calculated to be over 166 minutes long).
Probably what needs to happen is that WildMIDI needs to ignore the delay before the end-of-song event. I'm not sure if that will fix it, though.
I just tried and I don't have a looping issue with either of the two MIDIs mentioned in https://github.com/afritz1/OpenTESArena/issues/38 as having looping problems (OVERSNOW.XMI and SUNNYDAY.XMI). I tested by changing the MIDI played at the title screen. Also SUNNYDAY.XMI didn't have a looping issue when walking around the Imperial City.
Was this fixed somewhere along the way?
It's been using SUNNYDAY.XFM instead of SUNNYDAY.XMI, since the .XFM version doesn't have any looping problems. I don't think WildMIDI has fixed the looping on their side yet.
Yeah, I overlooked that. I'll test again explicitly using the .XMI files, and I'll also try the latest WildMIDI, just in case.
Sure enough, I changed SunnyDay to use the .XMI file, and with both the .dll from the version of WildMIDI I had been using, and the .dll built from the latest WildMIDI git repository, the no-looping (long delay) problem is still there.
See #38 for more details. I'm keeping this issue around until XMI looping for SUNNYDAY.XMI and OVERSNOW.XMI is properly handled by WildMIDI.