Re: [fluid-dev] Defining a standard directory for soundfonts

[Ebrahim Mayat]

On Sep 7, 2011, at 12:42 AM, David Henningsson wrote:
> Ok, good point. Maybe there are a usage cases for both?
>
> Thanks also to Pedro and Orcan for looking up the current situation  
> in major distros. Let me summarise:
>
> Debian (and derivatives such as Ubuntu):
> Directory: /usr/share/sounds/sf2
> File: N/A
>
> Fedora:
> Directory: /usr/share/soundfonts
> File: /usr/share/soundfonts/default.sf2
>
> OpenSuse:
> Directory: /usr/share/sounds/sf2
> File: N/A, but can be set by user through a SOUNDFONT_FILES  
> environment variable
>
> Mandriva:
> Directory: /usr/share/soundfonts
> File: N/A
>
> Maybe reach out to distro maintainers and ask for their opinion on  
> the matter?
>
> And btw, what about Mac / Windows / other platforms?

David

On OS X the soundfont used for the QuickTime Player is placed in the ~/ 
Library/Audio/Sounds/Banks/ directory though fluidsynth works using  
any other directory when called from the command line.

Ebrahim