Metronome help on time trainer app - problems with 6/8

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@SteveL_G99 and @Helen0609 I wrote a reply to a question on the 6/8 tempo and a metronome setting for Everybody Hurts here. Using easy numbers, if a tempo is given as 120bpm that is usually taken to mean that this is the tempo for quarter beats, that there are 120 quarter beats per minute. 6/8 time signature music is based on eighths, not quarters. 120bpm gives the equivalent of 240 eighths per minute. That 240 figure can be divided by 3 to give a metronome setting for 6/8 of 80bpm. BUT, i…