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

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

2013/7/11 Fabian Greffrath <fabian at greffrath.com>:
> 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.

There are patches doing something similar with freepats for ages, so I
think that it's sensible to try this route with better quality sound.

At some point I would like to disable the internal timidity
completely.  I think that libsdl2-mixer already got rid of the GPL
version of timidity.

I'm going to upload the fixes now, would you please test if it's
working as you expect when you have some time availale?


Cheers.
--
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>