[Pkg-audacious-maintainers] Bug#461765: udacious-plugins-extra: cannot manage to use AMIDI-plug with FluidSynth backend

[Francesco Poli]

On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:55:57 -0400 John Lindgren wrote:

[...]
> Francesco wrote:
> > So, it seems that the FluidSynth backend needs these soundfonts (in SF2
> > format, if I understand correctly).
> > I cannot find any .sf2 soundfonts in Debian main: where are they
> > packaged? ...
> 
> How hard did you look?
> 
> http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=soundfont&searchon=names&suite=stable&section=main
> 
> Try fluid-soundfont-gm.

I did search the Debian archive for soundfonts, but I failed to find
fluid-soundfont-gm.

Why?  Am I dumb?
Yes, I am indeed dumb, but that does *not* seem to be the reason why I
failed to find the package...   ;-)

According to http://packages.qa.debian.org/f/fluid-soundfont.html
the fluid-soundfont-gm package was first uploaded to Debian unstable on
March 2008, while I submitted the bug report on January 2008!

More recently, I noticed this package named "fluid-soundfont-gm" and I
thought that maybe it could be used to solve my issue with AMIDI-plug:
unfortunately I haven't found the time to check, so far...  :-(
I will try and see if it works for me.

Thanks a lot for the suggestion!

> 
> > Help!
> > How can I have audacious play MIDI files?
> > If there's some obscure trick to be performed, I think it should be
> > documented...
> 
> I don't think installing a sound font is an obscure trick ...

No, it's not an obscure trick, but it could be included in the Suggests
field of audacious-plugins, anyway...


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