I have actually used the fact that you can "easily" read these projects by eye in the past. 1. Some tracks have some really odd BPMs ... not 127, but 127.03468

I have actually used the fact that you can "easily" read these projects by eye in the past. 1. Some tracks have some really odd BPMs ... not 127, but 127.0346867 or something. Live unfortunately only ever shows two digits in the clip view. So if after a while you want to know the exact bpm you figured out, you have a slight problem: But, the XML exposes the accurate value. Unfortunately not for the global project BPM, though ... so don't figure out a bpm via that ... 2. I was reconstructing some film music stuff and needed copy clip fades exactly to another clip, but those clips didn't originally start and end at the same time (so any solution regarding replacing the source file wouldn't have worked). So I manually copied the clip fades in the XML somehow, I don't exactly remember how it worked, but I did get the exact same fades in the end. They only switched to this format with Live 9 btw, Live 8 uses some proprietary binary format.