The progress bar in play panel is based on measure number (or something else), not playing time?
I discovered it when I played my 18:38 score and saw the progress bar at 50% while the playing time was only 8:00. I suggest that it should be based on playing time because people (at least I) are used to it and it'll misguide the user if there's a part containing huge amounts of measures but only a short period of time.
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Never noticed this until you mentioned it. See attached score which clearly shows the play bar progress is beat/tick based and not time based.
On the one hand I agree that I'd expect the bar to be displayed timewise, just as in any other playback program.
On the other hand, it is currently quite easy to set an exact playback location at a given beat by dragging the slider. When it is timebased, it'll be harder to do so in case of faster passages.
Thus I'm not sure whether this behavior is deliberate and if/how changing it would impact others in how the might use the slider...
In reply to Never noticed this until you… by jeetee
Maybe there should be a preference option regarding the bar progress so that it's up to the user to decide?