Source:seek/tell - Pattern/Row TimeUnit for tracked music?

[Ratchet]

What about adding two TimeUnits: pattern and row for getting and setting the position of tracked music (MOD, XM, IT, S3M)
Would be great to perform dynamic music changes

Also a getLength method for Sources would be usefull (takes seconds and sample TimeUnit for WAV, MP3, OGG... and pattern, row for tracked music).

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source = love.audio.newSource("mysong.xm", "static")
length = source:getLength("pattern") -- returns 5 patterns ie

-- Jump to pattern 4, row 32
source:seek(4, "pattern")
source:seek(32, "row")

[MGinshe]

i'm not 100% sure on this, but i'm fairly sure that love.audio is just an OpenAL wrapper. the love2d devs would need to modify code on the C++/C# side to add something like that.

[Ratchet]

LÖVE uses ModPlug which supports features like that...

[bartbes]

Yes, but it also completely decodes it ahead of time then plays that back (in static mode anyway), so that information is lost at that step.