???????? Fri, 01 Jun 2012 01:21:28 +0300, Freek de Kruijf <f.de.kruijf at gmail.com>:
> On donderdag 31 mei 2012 17:02:54 Yuri Chornoivan wrote: >> ???????? Thu, 31 May 2012 11:47:56 +0300, Freek de Kruijf >> >> <f.de.kruijf at gmail.com>: >> > In trunk docmessages/extragear-multimedia/kmid.pot message #196 reads: >> > >> > A typical &MIDI; file weights around 50 Kb. while the typical mp3 >> > filesize >> > is 4 Mb. And with a good synthesizer device, you can get a comparable >> > sound >> > quality. Even more, with a &MIDI; file, you can change individual >> > instruments, change the velocity of a song, &etc; so you have more >> > overall >> > control. >> > >> > Kb should be KB and Mb should be MB >> > Furthermore weights should be contains. >> >> Fixed. Thanks. >> >> However KMid is now unmaintained [1], so it is not clear when the update >> will be released. >> >> [1] http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-extra-gear&m=133046054208309&w=2 > > KMid uses either timidity or fluidsynth, if a soft synth is needed. > Normally > timidity has a very limited amount of instruments. Initializing > fluidsynth in > KMid, it has a pointer to a file /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.sf2 > which is > not present in my distribution. It is available on the Internet in a zip > file, > which does not contain any license, however I found a remark that it is > available with a license something like LGPL. I don't know if fluidsynth > and > timidity are part of KDE. If so, I wonder if it is possible to include > FluidR3_GM.sf2 also. In that case the configuration file of timidity > should > also contain a reference to this sf2 file. This must be a packaging issue. The file is packaged at least for Fedora [1] [1] http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/17653573/dir/rawhide/com/fluid-soundfont-gm-3.1-7.fc17.noarch.rpm.html