Re: [fluid-dev] Defining a standard directory for soundfonts Was: First Try Failure

[Matt Giuca]

That's a good idea. That way, you would be able to just type
'fluidsynth <midifile>' to play a song.

Can I also recommend having a standard environment variable
SOUNDFONTPATH or similar which contains a colon-separated (semicolon
on Windows) list of paths to search for soundfonts. That would be
similar to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, Java's CLASSPATH or Python's PYTHONPATH
which I can set in my .bashrc file to customise where I keep my
SoundFonts. This would be searched in addition to (and in preference
to) the default path.

Which distros use /usr/share/soundfonts/ to store the soundfonts?
Debian (or at least Ubuntu, so I assume Debian) uses
/usr/share/sounds/sf2/.

Matt