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

[David Henningsson]

On 09/06/2011 12:24 PM, Matt Giuca wrote:
> 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/.

/usr/share/soundfonts/ was just my personal preference. I don't mind 
adhering to what Debian/Ubuntu currently does, although I vaguely recall 
that Fedora might have had a different path.

But I'm not completely sure about the SOUNDFONTPATH thing - how would 
that be used? Is that just to make people write foo.sf2 instead of 
/usr/share/soundfonts/foo.sf2? It still wouldn't give FluidSynth itself 
something to load as fallback.

// David