Bug 272037 – Ebuild request: Fluid R3 MIDI soundfont for timidity

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Stanley Wong 2009-06-01 05:34:06 UTC]

The famous Fluid R3 MIDI soundfont has been re-licensed under the MIT license.
This soundfont has already been included in Ubuntu and Debian. Related URLs are:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/193496
http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/fluid-soundfont-gm

http://packages.debian.org/stable/fluid-soundfont-gm

The soundfont(with new license in COPYING) could be found at
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/f/fluid-soundfont/fluid-soundfont_3.1.orig.tar.gz
and
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/f/fluid-soundfont/fluid-soundfont_3.1-2.diff.gz

It would be nice to have a free, high-quality soundfont to play MIDIs with timidity ;)

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Mike MacDonald 2010-08-30 04:12:23 UTC]

Created attachment 245306 [details]
An ebuild for the soundfont

It needs a patched eselect-timidity to work with timidity.

[Comment 2 Mike MacDonald 2010-08-30 04:13:48 UTC]

Created attachment 245308 [details]
An ebuild for a version of eselect-timidity with fluid soundfont support

This is  not necessary to use the soundfont with other applications (e. g. fluidsynth)

[Comment 3 Mike MacDonald 2010-08-30 04:15:10 UTC]

Created attachment 245309 [details, diff]
A patch that modifies eselect-timidity to add fluid-soundfont support

Again, not needed for programs other than timidity.

[Comment 4 Mike MacDonald 2010-08-30 04:28:07 UTC]

Created attachment 245310 [details]
A cleaned-up ebuild for the soundfont

This version of the ebuild is somewhat cleaner.

[Comment 5 Nikoli 2011-05-13 11:09:07 UTC]

Created attachment 273051 [details]
reworked sunrise ebuild

1) Use upstream in SRC_URI instead of ubuntu mirrors.
2) timidity USE needs only app-admin/eselect-timidity.
3) Install README.
4) Migrate to EAPI4.

Works with vlc and kmid.

[Comment 6 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2011-05-13 17:39:04 UTC]

Diego, could you patch timidity eselect module to include the fluid-soundfont target ( take a look at the patch ). I need you to apply this patch because the fluid-soundfont ebuild needs it

[Comment 7 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2011-05-13 18:04:48 UTC]

Markos I haven't looked at that code in years, so feel free to touch it yourself.

[Comment 8 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2011-05-13 18:17:07 UTC]

Thanks Diego. Then I will apply the patch and release a version bump for timidity eselect module

[Comment 9 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2011-05-13 18:43:17 UTC]

On tree. Thank you all

[Comment 10 Nikos Chantziaras 2011-05-13 20:58:12 UTC]

Could someone remove fluid-soundfont-3.1.ebuild from sunrise? It clashes with the portage version and I see no way to somehow block the sunrise ebuild.

[Comment 11 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2011-05-13 21:01:25 UTC]

I have already removed it but you have to wait until the next sunrise review

[Comment 12 Nikos Chantziaras 2011-05-13 21:39:07 UTC]

I've temporarily removed the sunrise ebuild and install the portage one. However, eselect doesn't seem to work:

  $ eselect timidity list
  Available TiMidity++ patchsets:
    [1]   eawpatches

fluid is not listed.

[Comment 13 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2011-05-13 21:39:57 UTC]

(In reply to comment #12)
> I've temporarily removed the sunrise ebuild and install the portage one.
> However, eselect doesn't seem to work:
> 
>   $ eselect timidity list
>   Available TiMidity++ patchsets:
>     [1]   eawpatches
> 
> fluid is not listed.

You need to enable the timidity use flag on fuild-soundfont ebuild

[Comment 14 Nikos Chantziaras 2011-05-13 21:42:29 UTC]

Oops :-/