Re: [fluid-dev] midi player issues

[Josh Green]

On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 23:07 +0200, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote:
> Felix Krause wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm using the fluidsynth library (current unstable Mac version from
> > fink) and tested the midi file player. It behaves very strange:
> >
> > - fluid_player_set_loop doesn't seem to have any effect (I tried to
> > set loop to 1, 5, negative values...).
> > - fluid_player_set_bpm seems to set the bpm always to 0, no matter
> > what bpm value I'm calling it with. This results in the first chord of
> > the midi file being played forever. My application hangs if I call
> > delete_fluid_player or fluid_player_join afterwards.
> > - fluid_player_set_midi_tempo shows the same behaviour.
> 
> For reference. The units in fluid_player_set_bpm() are beats per minute. In  
> fluid_player_set_midi_tempo() the argument is given in microseconds per beat. 
> The default values are BPM = 125, MIDI tempo = 480000. There may be a bug in 
> the last function, where it calculates the deltatime value in milliseconds 
> per tick, using the player->division value assigned from the loaded SMF 
> header (division field). Can you compile FluidSynth in debug mode, and take a 
> look to the log output?
> 
> > - fludi_player_stop stops the midi player, but doesn't mute the
> > currently playing notes. If I call fluid_player_start afterwards, the
> > player doesn't output anything for exactly the amount of time it had
> > played my file until I called stop. Then, it continues playing the
> > file from the position I stopped it.
> >
> > Is this a bug? Or am I simply doing something awfully wrong?
> 
> As David said, you've found several unimplemented and/or broken functions. 
> Please, can you create tickets into the bug tracker?
> http://fluidsynth.resonance.org/trac/report
> 
> Regards,
> Pedro
> 

Since Felix hasn't responded and tickets haven't yet been added, I went
ahead and added 2 new tickets:
http://fluidsynth.resonance.org/trac/ticket/33
http://fluidsynth.resonance.org/trac/ticket/34

Not sure how to handle the fluid_player_stop issue.

        Josh