Hi again, just out of curiosity, I analysed a large library of MIDI files with regard to the number of program change events that they contain. I downloaded the geocities collection from https://archive.org/details/archiveteam-geocities-midi-collection-2009, containing around 51000 MIDI files that were found on Geocities from 1995 to 2009.
I counted the number of program changes on each channel and track, making sure only to count those changes that would actually lead to a new preset being loaded on a channel. The results are: Total MIDI files: 51140 Broken files: 958 Analysed files: 50182 Files with... 1+ program change: 9284 10+ program changes: 1987 50+ program changes: 312 100+ program changes: 148 500+ program changes: 26 1000+ program changes: 7 The complete list and results can be found in this Gist: https://gist.github.com/mawe42/79613435312b08610abe36b247b39314 Not sure if we can extract anything useful from that information apart from the fact that there are MIDI files with lots of program changes out there. I was just curious to know for sure... and maybe someone else finds this interesting as well. And no, this is not me trying to find reasons for the preloading feature :-) Cheers, Marcus
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