Quirks with looping clips

First of all, thanks for the consistent support from this forum.

I use the Force in multiple different ways during my shows.
I have 2 seemingly unrelated quirks coming up.

• For one thing I have a MIDI clip on a Plugin track in Matrix view -- I like to keep it on constant loop (for ocean wave textures) in the background.
I leave it looping, but it will always stop when the Arrange meets its pre-determined end point.
Can I make the MIDI clip able to play back unattached from the Arrange length?

•  Second quirk - I have a few full songs in audio clips in 2 Audio tracks.
These clips settings are all set NOT as loops. But when each songs are finished playing through, they will always re-start a moment later -- unless I hit Clip Stop for the track. I sometimes forget to hit Clip Stop and then it catches me off guard when the song re-starts.
What is going on here? Arrange-related?

When the arrangement stops, clips stop. If you want to keep clips playing, the arrangement has to loop. Make the arrangement loop a short empty section at the end of your song. This has side-effects though - now you'll have to use a locator and shift+play to start playback, because plain play button will start from the empty end-loop. Or just start from the ending loop, and start the actual song by jumping to the start locator.

Can't you just make the arrangement longer or just set it to loop. You could also make a super long sample of the background wave looping & just trigger it once, not ideal, but it's an option & a way to take advantage of disk-streaming.