Hi all, To celebrate the release of Fluidsynth-1.0.8 and the FluidR3 soundfont package, I think it would be a good step to sort out the identification of SF2 and SFARK mimetypes. Currently SF2 files are identified as video/x-msvideo, which just doesn't seem right.
If anyone can explain the soundfont format to me enough to understand why it looks like a video to the system, I'd really appreciate it. I'm coming from the point of view of designing suitable icons. Also if anyone can add any more scholarly / useful information to this bug-report, I'm sure that will help the process along. If any of you think that this issue should be raised with other packages (what about KDE?) please raise a bug or let me know and I'll do it. If this is a pointless exercise, I'd appreciate having that explained too. :) I'm not going to keep Cc:ing everyone on this issue unless asked. The debian-multimedia list is probably the best focus for this one. Storming work, by the way! :-) -------- Original Message -------- Subject: shared-mime-info: Identify soundfonts Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:57:30 +0000 From: tim hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package: shared-mime-info Version: 0.19-2 Severity: normal Hi, Currently: Soundfonts (SF2 format) are identified as video/x-msvideo, which is wrong. It should not display either video-x-generic or audio-x-generic icons by default. It is actually a collection of synth presets, which looks to my untrained eye to be wrapped in a RIFF header. Can anything be done about this? The proprietary compressed format they often come in SFARK is correctly identified as application/x-extension-sfArk - ideally this should link to a package-x-generic icon. The relevance to Debian (apart from usage) is that a FluidR3 soundfont package has now been uploaded to the distribution. cheers, -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-1-multimedia-486 Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages shared-mime-info depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libglib2.0-0 2.14.2-1~etch1 The GLib library of C routines ii libxml2 2.6.30.dfsg-2~bpo.1 GNOME XML library shared-mime-info recommends no packages. -- no debconf information cheers, tim _______________________________________________ 64studio-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-devel
