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...my proposal? Besides the metadata stuff, libFLAC has been really nice to work with, and theres nothing like getting a 128MB SoundFont down to 67MB :) BTW any plans yet for allowing changing of audio parameters while encoding. I think this would give a significant increase in compression for some SoundFonts because the SoundFont sample chunk is multiple consecutive samples and stereo pairs can be determined from the SoundFont information. Cheers! Josh Green

...e, instead of just padding and seektable. > Rock on! No, I missed the fact that 1.0.3 has been released :) > > BTW any plans yet for allowing changing of audio parameters while > > encoding. I think this would give a significant increase in > > compression > > for some SoundFonts because the SoundFont sample chunk is multiple > > consecutive samples and stereo pairs can be determined from the > > SoundFont information. Cheers! > > It's on my TODO list but kind of far down :) If you want to > have a crack at it and send me a patch that's fine...

...Also, on the encoder size, you can now pass a list of arbitrary metadata blocks to encode, instead of just padding and seektable. > BTW any plans yet for allowing changing of audio parameters while > encoding. I think this would give a significant increase in > compression > for some SoundFonts because the SoundFont sample chunk is multiple > consecutive samples and stereo pairs can be determined from the > SoundFont information. Cheers! It's on my TODO list but kind of far down :) If you want to have a crack at it and send me a patch that's fine also. The decoders shoul...

...nifests or command line options change - earlier today one file failed several times with puppetmaster --verbose but succeeded with puppetmaster --debug. The relevant parts of the puppetmaster and puppetd transcipts (both with --debug) are included below. A pair of manifest files are attached - * soundfonts.pp caused the failure in the transcripts * tgz-etc.pp caused a failure with puppetmaster --verbose but not with puppetmaster --debug What''s the best plan for avoiding the timeout errors - or is there a bug to fix? cheers John Dubery ==================== puppetmaster: ... debug: Allo...

--- Josh Green <jgreen@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > I'll let the list know when SF-FLAC is finished, should anyone be > interested. I'm considering starting a FREE SoundFont compressor > campaign, so users will stop using SoundFont encoders that aren't > available on platforms such as Linux. This would also pressure some > of > the existing formats to release

Josh Coalson wrote: > yeah, flac doesn't have a 'gzip' fallback method > so any non-audio data will probably get stored > verbatim. I'm kind of reluctant to add a generic > compressor. If you wan't, you could come up with a > FLAC metadata block to store a gzip'ed chunk and I > could add that to the format. > I had the same thought when I was

> > the best thing would be to try and set the > blocksize > > to match the length of the individual 'sample'. > if > > each sample is much shorter than the blocksize > then > > the encoder may not be able to generate an > efficient > > model of the signal. if the samples within the > > soundfont vary greatly in length that also makes >

For those who are interested in checking out my initial specification for the FlacPak format, I updated the web pages at: http://swami.sourceforge.net/flacpak.php The direct link to the specification notes: http://swami.sourceforge.net/flacpak_format.php For those who weren't reading the previous threads, FlacPak is a format being designed to handle compression of files containing binary and

My uncle recently bought a new computer and he wants me to help him install Guitar Pro. The thing is, he doesn't have Windows, and I'm thinking of installing Ubuntu with wine on the comp. Quiz time! Can you use wine, with GP, and if you can, deos it perform poorly in any ways?

I've been doing some more tests with compressing sound fonts with FLAC. It compares quite well with sfArk which is a common compression used on the internet for sound fonts, unfortunately its not open. For the most part, in my tests, sfArk beats FLAC in compression, but thats not surprising as I am compressing entire sound fonts which include non-audio data as well. The average compression

I posted to this list a couple years back and then again sometime a year ago about using Flac to compress SoundFont instrument files. I never got around to finalizing the specification for that project, and I have since realized that a more generic approach would be better. I registered the "SFFL" Sound Font FLAC application meta data ID. I would like to remove that, since it was never

Hello, I am having trouble with wine and midi, and also the new winecfg vs config file setup. I have looked through old emails faqs etc and on frank's corner but nothing seems to be able to get the midi output out of wine and onwards towards my soundcard. The program I am having trouble with is called Power tab. I am running 'timidity -iA' with a GM soundfont and confirm that

--- Josh Green <jgreen@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > I stripped out all non-audio data from a few fonts > (which doesn't > usually amount to much, 50k in a font with a lot of > preset/instrument/sample overhead information). I > managed to save a good > 20k by gzipping this data and not making FLAC > compress it. Not that much > for all the effort. Although I

Thought I'd send an update on FlacPak a file format for compressing instrument files (although its more generically a method of compressing files containing binary and audio with most of the smarts being in the encoder file handlers). It uses zlib for compressing the binary data and FLAC (of course :) for compressing the audio. There is now a CVS tarball of libInstPatch which contains a

Hey there, I'm a bit new to WINE, not used it much outside of when I used to play Diablo II on it a year or two ago. Anyways, another thing I'm currently experimenting with is music composition. I've got my Rosegarden (sequencer) and qsynth running over JACK, but frankly, the free soundfonts I've found have been pretty dire. The level of cheese involved is enough to kill a man. So I'm wondering whether anybody has any experience with having WINE doing terrible, horrible things with midi and JACK, since Propellerheads and d-lusion have recently put out their old softsynths for...

I would know what is needed to get MIDI playing into wine. I know I must have a card that supports it :). Must I change something into the registry (I have read the docu but it doesnt help), into .wine/config ? Do some drivers have to be loaded ? Has someone a small/big application to test it ? Thanks. ===== Sylvain Petreolle spetreolle@users.sourceforge.net Fight against Spam !

I installed Guitar Pro 5 via Wine, and I am able to get the program to playback in MIDI, but I when I enable the RSE (Realistic Sound Engine) and press play I no longer receive any sound from the program. The program then freezes shortly after that. I installed TiMidity++ MIDI sequencer via sudo command, as I heard many people say that Guitar Pro will not run correctly without it. I played with

I can run most midi apps in wine through timidity with no problem but there are quite a few apps which don't allow you to assign the midi output to timidity such as Media Player Classic or WM player 6. They try to use the windows default which is of course MS synth or Emu10k1. There must be a way of mapping the midi output in wine from such apps to timidity but I just can't get it to

..._locked failed: Input/output error There's over a hundred of these GlobalFree errors in the log, so I just postet a few of them. I have no idea what's causing this, since RPG Maker 2000 should run and used to run on another machine I had. I'm using Arch Linux (32-bit), timidity and soundfonts are installed, as are the correct drivers for my machine, so that should not be the issue. Any help is greatly appreciated. My best Ranmaru

Could be feasible to use opus in real-time applications like multitrack recording (mobile recording and multi tracks) and music samplers (sample libraries), ideally reducing data size into a fraction while having the good level of quality and latency. And possibly open new opportunities in the web and mobile music making? Same thing used in the game development for sound effects, at the moment