Fix is simple, just change mingus/midi/sequencer.py:240 (in play_Bars()) from
if (start_tick <= tick):
to
if (start_tick <= tick) and (start_tick > tick - 0.00001):
For style reasons I'd also introduce a module wide constant named EPS (= 0.00001) to avoid that magic number smell in the floating point comparisons.
Thanks for this great software,
Thomas
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