How to set ticks_per_beat under MIDO to a new MIDI file?

Question

Reading ticks_per_beat under MIDO can be done via mid.ticks_per_beat. However, if I want to save the value of ticks_per_beat (e.g., 120 or 480) to a new MIDI file, how it can be done? (p.s. I can set "time signature" or "tempo" as follows. But, it seems to me that there is no relationship between these values and ticks_per_beat.)

track.append(MetaMessage('time_signature', numerator=4, denominator=4, clocks_per_click=24, notated_32nd_notes_per_beat=8, time=0))

track.append(MetaMessage('set_tempo', tempo=100000, time=0))

Praise God! I've been scouring all the lands for this `ticks_per_beat` attribute! — duhaime, Jun 12 '20 at 01:06

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 26 '17 at 20:21

The ticks per beat value is not stored with a MIDI message; it's a field in the MIDI file header.

The MidiFile constructor has a bunch of undocumented parameters:

class MidiFile(object):
    def __init__(self, filename=None, file=None,
                 type=1, ticks_per_beat=DEFAULT_TICKS_PER_BEAT,
                 charset='latin1',
                 debug=False,
                 clip=False
                 ):

How to set ticks_per_beat under MIDO to a new MIDI file?

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