Bug#740710: fluidsynth: Please support vorbis-compressed sf3 sound fonts

[Fabian Greffrath]

Package: fluidsynth
Version: 1.1.6-2
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

the musescore authors have single-handedly introduced a new sound font format
SF3 which is the same as SF2 but with vorbis-compressed samples:

http://musescore.org/en/node/20818

They state that their software includes a modified version of fluidsynth which
includes support for that format and did already convert the soundfont included
with musescore (see #715462). It would be great if support for the new sound
font format could get added to upstream fluidsynth.

Thanks,

Fabian



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (900, 'unstable'), (800, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages fluidsynth depends on:
ii  libc6           2.17-97
ii  libfluidsynth1  1.1.6-2

Versions of packages fluidsynth recommends:
ii  qsynth  0.3.8-1

fluidsynth suggests no packages.

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