Re: [Denemo-devel] Third question - importing MIDI file crashes with fluidsynth errors - latest RPM?

[Philip Rhoades]

Edgar,


On 2013-12-23 08:56, Edgar Aichinger wrote:
> Am Montag, 23. Dezember 2013, 07:14:51 schrieb Philip Rhoades:
> > Richard,
> >
> >
> > On 2013-12-22 03:47, Richard Shann wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 09:06 +1100, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> > >> Richard,
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On 2013-12-20 09:03, Richard Shann wrote:
> > >> > On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 08:50 +1100, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> > >> >> People,
> > >> >>
> > >> >> When trying to import this:
> > >> >>
> > >> >>    http://sglyrics.myrmid.com/boxer2.mid
> > >> >>
> > >> >> I get a crackling sound on the speakers and continuous errors like
> > >> >> this:
> > >> >>
> > >> >>    fluidsynth: warning: Ringbuffer full, try increasing polyphony!
> > >
> > > I was a little glib in my reply: while what I said is true, in this
> > > case
> > > you have hit another problem which is fixed in the guided MIDI import,
> > > namely the score is being created without turning the playback off! So
> > > every note it enters it immediately tries to play.
> > > What you may find works is to use Edit->Change Preferences->Audio Midi
> > > tab, and turn off the first item "Playback Notes Immediately"
> >
> >
> > Yes, that cured the repeated error message but after a few minutes,
> > Denemo seemed to finish loading the 33 instruments but there was 
> > nothing
> > much in the staves and it didn't play anything . .
> >
> >
> > >> >> before having to close the file selection window which crashes Denemo.
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Is that particular file a problem or is there something more general?
> > >> >
> > >> > Probably the particular file. The latest stuff has a guided MIDI import
> > >> > which will probably let you attack such files: only very simple MIDI
> > >> > files stand a chance of getting usefully imported at present I think.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Right.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> > I am not sure if there is a binary of the latest stuff though - which
> > >> > system are you using?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> denemo-1.0.0-0.fc19.x86_64 (Fedora - RPMs)
> > >
> > > There is someone who builds for Fedora I think (see earlier emails on
> > > this list), if you can get the latest 1.1.1 code built you could try
> > > guided MIDI import.
> >
> >
> > It was just an experiment for me - I can wait till the new stuff 
> > filters
> > through to the Fedora distros but if the Fedora builder here sees this
> > note and wants to point me to their RPM that would be nice!
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Phil.
>
> I'm the openSUSE packager but last week when I helped Jeremiah to 
> understand
> the build process on OpenBuild Service, I added a Fedora 19 build 
> target to my
> repositories: 
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/edogawa/Fedora_19/
>
> That's basically Jeremiah's work, I only accepted his changes, created
> a FC19 repo
> and changed a few of his modifications to simplify the .spec file a 
> bit.
>
> I'm not familiar with Fedora, so I can't tell you how to add this to 
> your
> package manager, but you can always grab the binary rpms from that URL
> directly...
>
> I'm not sure if anyone has tested these but I'm pretty confident they
> should work.
> Please report back!


That package requires librsvg and the only (non -devel) RPM I can find 
is:

  librsvg2-2.37.0-3.fc19.i686.rpm

but that wants to install a lot of non 64bit dependencies which I don't 
want to do . . oh well . .

Thanks,

Phil.
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