BPM in play panel is false

63 for a dotted quarters per minute is indeed 94,5 quarter beats per minute. And that is what the Inspector shows. I guess the play pannel just rounds it, not having been updated to allow decimals, back when this got allowed for tempo texts?

Indeed, the play pannel doesn't allow to display decimals for the tempo, so not a bug, works as designed:

//---------------------------------------------------------
//   setTempo
//---------------------------------------------------------
 
void PlayPanel::setTempo(double val)
      {
      int tempo = lrint(val * 60.0);
      tempoLabel->setText(tr("Tempo\n%1 BPM").arg(tempo, 3, 10, QLatin1Char(' ')));
      }

Which is not to say that this couldn't or shouldn't get changed ;-)

Changing that to

void PlayPanel::setTempo(double val)
      {
      tempoLabel->setText(tr("Tempo\n%1 BPM").arg(val * 60, 6, 'f', 2, QLatin1Char(' ')));
      }

seems to do the trick, showing the same 3 digits before the decimal dot, padded with spaces if needed, and 2 decimals, like the inspector.
Never more than 999.00BPM, same as before and same as in Inspector too!

It is like this ever since the code moved from sourceforge to github, so at least ever since MuseScore 2, but probably even longer longer

See https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/7203

Fixed in branch 3.x, commit 07fbf41ee0

Fix #315106: Show 2 decimals for Tempo in Play Panel

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.