Project Information
- Name of tool/project: Fluidsynth
- Project home page: http://www.fluidsynth.org/
- Name of team requesting review: MediaWiki-extensions-Score
- Primary contact: @Ebe123
- Target date for deployment: None
- Link to code repository / patchset: https://github.com/FluidSynth/fluidsynth
Description of the tool/project
A MIDI to audio converter (.mp3 and .ogg)
Description of how the tool will be used at WMF
As a replacement to the obsolete TiMidity++ that served the same purpose, but only towards .ogg.
Dependencies
From apt-cache depends fluidsynth:
fluidsynth Depends: libfluidsynth1 Depends: libc6 Conflicts: <iiwusynth> Recommends: qsynth Replaces: <iiwusynth> fluidsynth
Please note that a soundfont would also be downloaded. (such as fluid)
Has this project been reviewed before?
Cursory comparison done by @Legoktm: {T181897#3806030}
Working test environment
Done simply through apt-get. The extension will default to Fluidsynth if found.
Patchset implementing Fluidsynth compatibility: rESCRb173336b9634: Migrate TiMidity++ to fluidsynth