Bug#920373: default soundfonts

2019-08-20 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am Donnerstag, den 08.08.2019, 10:56 +0200 schrieb Fabian Greffrath: > from what I can see, only these two soundfont package are still > missing > from our transition to provide sf[23]-soundfont-gm, right? I have filed a bug against fluid-soundfont-gm and issued a pull request for opl3-soundfont,

Bug#920373: default soundfonts

2019-08-08 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Hi Thorsten, Am Donnerstag, den 23.05.2019, 00:15 + schrieb Thorsten Glaser: > opl3-soundfont 131891 30 sf2 (I think) > fluid-soundfont-gm 145169 50 sf2 (I think) from what I can see, only these two soundfont package are still missing

Bug#920373: default soundfonts

2019-08-02 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Fabian Greffrath dixit: >Agreed, then I'll prepare timgm6mb-soundfont for upload now. I just noticed that the soundfont itself is GPLv2… (only?) in mine I use a script that edits the .sf2 to update metadata like author or licence, perhaps you want to embed the licence grant into the soundfont

Bug#920373: default soundfonts

2019-08-02 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Fabian Greffrath dixit: >Agreed, then I'll prepare timgm6mb-soundfont for upload now. Great. I’ve just uploaded mine: • fluidr3mono-gm-soundfont @ 30 • musescore-general-soundfont-small @ 50 • musescore-general-soundfont @ 60 / 70 (for -lossless) I’ll intend to backport at least one, perhaps

Bug#920373: default soundfonts

2019-08-02 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am Donnerstag, den 01.08.2019, 15:53 + schrieb Thorsten Glaser: > After removing the musescore-compatible-soundfont from Provides, Oops, this was a copy/paste-fauxpas from one of your packages. > Agreed, but individual packages can use a different one if they > have a reason for it, but I’d

Bug#920373: default soundfonts

2019-08-01 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Fabian Greffrath dixit: >Done, feedback has been all positive so far. I agree. >Do you think the following commit does everything that's necessary for >the timgm6mb-soundfont to properly support this new schema? >

Bug#920373: default soundfonts

2019-08-01 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am Samstag, den 27.07.2019, 15:26 + schrieb Thorsten Glaser: > Meh I might be able to post that but I don’t read -devel due > to traffic either except sometimes via the web archives so > feel free to do that yourself ☻ Done, feedback has been all positive so far. Do you think the following

Bug#920373: default soundfonts

2019-07-27 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Fabian Greffrath dixit: >cleared out: Do you suggest for SF2 soundfonts to also provide the sf3- >soundfont-gmvirtual package? I mean, technically they should be >compatible, but this would mean we create a symlink with a different >file extension. Do we want this? Yes, of course we do want

Bug#920373: default soundfonts

2019-07-27 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Hi Thorsten, Am Donnerstag, den 23.05.2019, 13:00 + schrieb Thorsten Glaser: > • I’ve added “sf2-soundfont-gm, sf3-soundfont-gm” to Provides in > the binary package stanza in debian/control before we announce our plans on -devel, I'd like to get one detail cleared out: Do you suggest for

Bug#920373: default soundfonts

2019-07-15 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Hi Thorsten, Am Donnerstag, den 11.07.2019, 14:50 + schrieb Thorsten Glaser: > Did anyone have a chance to review my proposed implementation? you mean the postinst/prerm snippets that you posted a while back? They looked great to me! > gstreamer (the one that started this discussion)

Bug#920373: default soundfonts

2019-07-11 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Hi Fabian, >now that buster has been released (congratulations to everyone!), I >think we should move forward with this. agreed. >My proposed plan of actions is: > > - Announce new virtual package(s) on d-devel > - Upload soundfonts packages prividing the virtual packages and > calling the

Bug#920373: default soundfonts

2019-07-11 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Hi Thorsten, now that buster has been released (congratulations to everyone!), I think we should move forward with this. My proposed plan of actions is: - Announce new virtual package(s) on d-devel - Upload soundfonts packages prividing the virtual packages and calling the corresponding

Bug#920373: default soundfonts

2019-05-23 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am Donnerstag, den 23.05.2019, 11:30 + schrieb Thorsten Glaser: > Then we can call the virtual package sf2-soundfont-gm, so it's clear > all providers have at least the GM sound set (since virtual packages > can't have a Description), ok? Fine with me! > So all of them will provide

Bug#920373: default soundfonts

2019-05-23 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Dixi quod… >I'll cobble together a patch for, for a start, fluidr3mono-gm-soundfont >and post it here for review (so we're consistent). This should be trivial >but, again, I'd like to avoid upload churn. I’ve decided to start with musescore-general-soundfont-lossless instead as the example

Bug#920373: default soundfonts

2019-05-23 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Hi again, >I see. I am one of those stuck with a 12MB DSL line. And that's download >speed. :-/ yeah... :| >> The sf3 ones can also fulfill sf2. > >Isn't it the other way round? I mean, not every application that can >render SF2 soundfonts can also render the SF3 variant. Erm, yes. Sorry. It

Bug#920373: default soundfonts

2019-05-23 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Thorsten Glaser wrote: > True, but that would lead to major unnecessary package churn with, > in my case, about 700 MiB (compressed size) per upload. I’d prefer > to avoid that, for snapshot.d.o sanity and users on poor bandwidth > connections (i.e. Germans) ☻ I see. I am one of those stuck

Bug#920373: default soundfonts

2019-05-22 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Fabian Greffrath dixit: >Hi Thorsten et al., > >> Do we also wish a /usr/share/sounds/sf3/default.sf3 ? Ib^@^Yve got four > >I don't have a strong opinion about this. My concern is merely that we >have at least one soundfont installed so users can play MIDI >out-of-the-box. We can still decide

Bug#920373: default soundfonts (was Re: gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad: no midi sound - gstreamer selects wrong soundfont by default)

2019-05-20 Thread Thorsten Glaser
>On Sat, 18 May 2019 20:34:57 +0100 Tim Colgate > >wrote: >> Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a standard way in Linux of >>setting a default soundfont to be used by all midi players; I was This (#929185) may also affect timidity, which has its own format, but with a trivial config file