Originally Posted By: Matt Finley
It is remarkable how many BIAB files I have that date all the way back to the 1990s. Many thousands more exist from PG Music and from the Internet. But I would assume there could be a conversion utility that would make the file format readable on a newer BIAB version that did not have the 255 measure limit. This utility should handle other related issues such as DOS-length filenames.


The problem isn't reading old files with a new version of BIAB. It could have a converter built in. The problem would be old versions of BIAB reading a new file with more than 255 bars in it. Currently old versions of BIAB seem to be able to cope with files created by newer versions. They seem to be able to "ignore" new features and still play the file. This may not be possible if there were more than 255 bars. Old versions are unlikely to be able to retrospectively handle that many bars.

As I said, it depends how important PG think it is to be able to do this. Presumably it could be done such that songs with less than 255 bars could still be read by old versions. I do often give files to friends who are running older versions than me.

Andy

Last edited by Andy Ling; 06/03/19 11:39 PM.