Hmm... anybody know of "jack" rpms for fc2? It seems to be a callback based audio multiplexing server - and i dont like compiling libs... Hmm.. guess i just do "prefix=/usr/local/jack" and hope i can persuade muse to look for jack there ;) søn, 12.09.2004 kl. 13.45 skrev Kyrre Ness Sjobak: > søn, 12.09.2004 kl. 01.39 skrev Jeff Spaleta: > > On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 23:26:48 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak > > <kyrre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hmm... Does anybody know why Fedora haven't included a simple > > > midi-player, which simply sends things to your soundcard for rendering, > > > which in turn plays it?? And does anybody know about a good such > > > program? > > > > I think the fact that you have to ask the second question, points to a > > reason why you have to ask the first one. If you have the hardware and > > the interest in playing midi files, and you can't find an appropriate > > software for linux that fedora could evaluate for inclusion... that > > should tell you something about why its not included. > > > > here's how you can be proactive: > > Find software that works for what you need to do. > > File a bug report in bugzilla.redhat.com requesting its inclusion > > making a case that nothing > > so far in Core provides this functionality > > Create packages for the software and submit it for QA review at > > fedora.us if its not already there. > > > > A quick google gives me: > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-multimedia/2003-December/msg00099.html > > > > http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/faq/html/chapter-dependencies.html > > quote > > 3.6. Does GStreamer support MIDI ? > > Not yet. The GStreamer architecture should be able to support the > > needs of MIDI applications very well however. If you are a developer > > interested in adding MIDI support to GStreamer we are very interested > > in getting in touch with you. > > endquote > > > > Are you that developer? I think perhaps you can serve your own > > interests by communicating directly with the gstreamer developers. > > > > -jef > > > > Think that is somewhat over my head ;) > > But after some googling (thanks for the links, gave me some hints), ill > found amSynth ( http://amsynthe.sourceforge.net/amSynth/index.html ) and > MusE ( http://lmuse.sourceforge.net/ ) - which i will test out and > report back to bugzilla if any of them seem "worthy". > > As a welcome side-effect, we migth by inclusion of midi-sequencer progs > acctually prepare the ground for more musicans to swich to linux. > > Kyrre >