Opened 5 years ago
Last modified 4 years ago
#51842 new submission
Timidity: request for a new port
Reported by: | mojca (Mojca Miklavec) | Owned by: | mojca (Mojca Miklavec) |
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Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
Component: | ports | Version: | |
Keywords: | Cc: | RJVB (René Bertin) | |
Port: | timidity |
Description (last modified by mojca (Mojca Miklavec))
I would like to have some software that supports MIDI files. (Quick Time 7 does that to some extent.)
Many people recommended timidity, also packaged by HomeBrew:
Just in case it's relevant (and easier to use in MP), google led me to a much simpler version of the same formula (for the same version of the software):
This is the homepage:
And the git repository:
Here's a link to sources and PPC binaries for a Cocoa GUI (which need a bit more time to look into):
Change History (9)
comment:1 Changed 5 years ago by mojca (Mojca Miklavec)
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comment:2 Changed 5 years ago by mojca (Mojca Miklavec)
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Type: | request → submission |
comment:3 Changed 4 years ago by mojca (Mojca Miklavec)
comment:4 Changed 4 years ago by mojca (Mojca Miklavec)
Cc: | RJVB added |
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comment:5 Changed 4 years ago by RJVB (René Bertin)
Learning Japanese might take a bit more than "a bit more time" for some of us ;)
Also see a few possible and relevant changes to port:fluidsynth: https://github.com/RJVB/macstrop/tree/master/multimedia/fluidsynth
as well as a GUI I'm testing: https://github.com/RJVB/macstrop/tree/master/audio/qsynth
Note also that VLC can support fluidsynth which means it ought to be able to play MIDI file. This is currently coupled to JACK support, I'll investigate whether this is actually required.
comment:6 Changed 4 years ago by RJVB (René Bertin)
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/27/commits
VLC can play back (and scan through) MIDI files with fluidsynth provided a SoundFont is installed and configured in its settings.
I have moved this feature into the basic feature set in the above commit; the port already depended on port:fluidsynth even if MIDI support wasn't activated through the +jack
variant.
Edit: Jack support isn't required, so +jack
now only activates what it suggests it activates.
Enabling MIDI support in VLC (and libVLC) means that any other libVLC client can play MIDI files, like for instance the VLC Phonon backend.
comment:7 Changed 4 years ago by mojca (Mojca Miklavec)
Discussion about soundfonts moved to #52992.
comment:8 Changed 4 years ago by mojca (Mojca Miklavec)
I committed the sound fonts without implementing any support for port select
or whatever. Let's do that once it becomes clear what we need in the first place (port select
doesn't guarantee that anything is selected at all).
As far as TiMidity++ goes, I'm thinking of creating a subport, something like timidity-soundfonts
with the sole purpose of setting up the right configuration files for fonts. It looks like an overkill to me to have to rebuild the binary just for the sake of switching the default sound font (a single line in a text file).
comment:9 Changed 4 years ago by RJVB (René Bertin)
Agreed for port select
.
I think the proper way to address the timidity.cfg configuration file question is to install both out-of-the-box-supported versions under special names or in a special location (or even keep them in filespath
), and install one of the two in the post-activate phase if the file doesn't already exist. Which of the two is installed can be under control of a variant.
I don't know if this is the official way to handle such a situation, but with an approach like this the file won't be overwritten each time we update timidity. That will most likely not be necessary, and remember that the user ought to be able to change the file to use a sound .cfg file that doesn't come from MacPorts.
I added freepat (sound library) in r150546. The temporary
Portfile
for testing currently lives under my personal folder (r150544, r150547).