Bug#715461: libsdl-mixer1.2: no sf2 sound fonts loaded by default

Fabian Greffrath fabian at greffrath.com
Thu Jul 11 11:46:31 UTC 2013


Am Donnerstag, den 11.07.2013, 12:37 +0100 schrieb Manuel A. Fernandez
Montecelo: 
> This again is alternative dependencies, right?
> 
> Recommends: musescore-soundfont-gm | fluid-soundfont-gm | freepats

Yes, sure, sorry. I am still not sure, however, if fluid-soundfont-gm
should get precedence over freepats as it is quite chunky and some users
will be happy to hear music at all - regardless of its quality.

Please note that the patch is just a quick hack to demonstrate that
music playback with sdl_mixer using fluidsynth and a packaged sound font
*could* be easy. I am not sure if it is already ready for application in
Debian, maybe could could check that with upstream first? However, I
find the current situation of being forced to set an environment
variable first in order to get music playback of reasonable quality
completely unsatisfying.

- Fabian



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