Re: Frescobaldi, improve support for audio export

[Saul Tobin]

The biggest killer-feature for me would be the ability to playback multiple midi files simultaneously in sync (to work around the 16 track limitation).

Audio format-wise, I think mp3 is fine. I doubt anyone particularly cares about lossless quality for their general midi soundfont playback.

On Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 10:34 AM Guy Stalnaker <address@hidden> wrote:

Urs,

I'm thinking you mean here "Frescobaldi on Linux" right (since you also
say fluidsynth)? I use Frescobaldi primarily on Windows. And though one
can use Cygwin, etc. to install an app like timidity, Frescobaldi does
not "see" it. But I can, and to, have lame installed because I can use
VirtualMidiSyth to manually convert midi to mp3.

Just putting this out there so you know.

Regards!

On 10/17/2019 9:19 AM, Urs Liska wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've just started looking into how Frescobaldi provides support for
> "exporting" scores to audio.
>
> Until now this was hardcoded to use TiMidity (and had to be activated as
> "experimental feature").
>
> I have so far created functionality that
>
>   * checks whether timidity, fluidsynth and lame are available
>   * populates the filter of the file dialog with all registered file
>     formats for the available converters (=> if (and only if) Lame is
>     installed the .mp3 filter will be added). You can see a screenshot
>     at
>     https://github.com/frescobaldi/frescobaldi/pull/1205#issuecomment-543155209
>
> After clicking the Save button there will be a configuration dialog like
> we already have for the file *import* functionality. Depending on the
> chosen converter/exporter tool it will be possible to configure selected
> settings like for example audio quality, alternative soundfont (in
> fluidsynth), effects.
>
> However, since that's not my area of expertise I'd like to ask for
> suggestions (possibly with the corresponding command line invocations) about
>
>   * which audio formats Frescobaldi should support (I don't think it's
>     good to clutter the interface with stuff that noone needs)
>   * which options we should make configurable for the three converter tools
>   * if there are other converters we should consider supporting
>
> Best
> Urs
>
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