Fwd: shared-mime-info: Identify soundfonts
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 <tech@glastonburymusic.org.uk>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
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
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