Compare the lengh of .mid and .mp3? How would that be meaningfull?
Exporting to mp3 with and without repeats enabled results in the different file sizes and a playback duration of 1:06. without and 1:22 with. (about 2 seconds longer each than the MuseScore playback, due to appended silence, see #268393: Request to control amount of padding added to audio export)
And I can hear the repeats too,
I have a score exported to a .mid-file and a .mp3-file without "play repeats" activated. The .mid-file contains all repeated bars, the .mp3-file not. So the length of both files is different.
This behaviour disappears with "play repeats" activated.
Comparing the size of a .mid with that of an .mp3 is comparing apples with peaches.
The only valid comparison is between same type, whith and with play repeats.
I don't think it's unreasonable for a typical user, unfamiliar with the inner workings of MuseScore, to assume that a MIDI file and an MP3 file exported from the same score with the same repeat settings would contain the same number of measures and thus would be roughly the same length.
Yes for the same number of measures (and that is a bug with MIDI export, linked to above), definitly no for filesize. Expecting those to be meaniful is just nor reasonable at all. You don't expect a cherry to be comparable in size to an apple.
A MIDI file is always way smaller than the corresponding MP3 or WAV
Hmm, OK, that indeed is possible, makes sense and is reasonable. Except for an extra 2 seconds of silence appended to every MP3, but not to MID
Applogies for not having though of that.
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Sure? Not even if 'Play repeats' (that ":|" button in the toolbar) is enabled?
Sample score?
In reply to Sure? Not even if 'Play… by Jojo-Schmitz
Try it yourself. Export it to .mid and to .mp3 and compare the length.
In reply to Try it yourself. Export it… by [DELETED] 33846558
Compare the lengh of .mid and .mp3? How would that be meaningfull?
Exporting to mp3 with and without repeats enabled results in the different file sizes and a playback duration of 1:06. without and 1:22 with. (about 2 seconds longer each than the MuseScore playback, due to appended silence, see #268393: Request to control amount of padding added to audio export)
And I can hear the repeats too,
For MIDI export though you're right, repeats do not get exported. See also #296169: Option to honor "Play Repeats" in MIDI export
In reply to compare the lengh of .mid… by Jojo-Schmitz
I have a score exported to a .mid-file and a .mp3-file without "play repeats" activated. The .mid-file contains all repeated bars, the .mp3-file not. So the length of both files is different.
This behaviour disappears with "play repeats" activated.
In reply to I have a score exported to a… by [DELETED] 33846558
Comparing the size of a .mid with that of an .mp3 is comparing apples with peaches.
The only valid comparison is between same type, whith and with play repeats.
In reply to Comparing the size of a .mid… by Jojo-Schmitz
I don't think it's unreasonable for a typical user, unfamiliar with the inner workings of MuseScore, to assume that a MIDI file and an MP3 file exported from the same score with the same repeat settings would contain the same number of measures and thus would be roughly the same length.
In reply to I don't think it's… by Spire42
Yes for the same number of measures (and that is a bug with MIDI export, linked to above), definitly no for filesize. Expecting those to be meaniful is just nor reasonable at all. You don't expect a cherry to be comparable in size to an apple.
A MIDI file is always way smaller than the corresponding MP3 or WAV
In reply to Yes for the same number of… by Jojo-Schmitz
By length I meant duration (i.e., in seconds), not file size. And I think @Wolfgang Henderkes meant that too.
In reply to By length I meant duration … by Spire42
Hmm, OK, that indeed is possible, makes sense and is reasonable. Except for an extra 2 seconds of silence appended to every MP3, but not to MID
Applogies for not having though of that.
In reply to By length I meant duration … by Spire42
That is right.