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wildmidi package

libwildmidi0 should depend on package "freepats"

Bug #218235 reported by Mazin
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gst-plugins-bad0.10 (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: libwildmidi0

In the Hardy Heron beta (as of 16 April 2008):

The gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad package is supposed to enable MIDI playback for gstreamer-based players such as Totem and Rhythmbox by installing the libwild package, however, no MIDI samples are installed by default (freepats is only suggested by libwild), so when one attempts to play a MIDI file in Totem, no audio is heard, and many errors such as:

libWildMidi(WM_BufferFile:629): ERROR Unable to stat /usr/share/midi/freepats/Drum_000/060_Bongo_High.pat (No such file or directory)

are encountered on the command line. When the freepats package is installed, audio is heard. I suggest freepats be changed from "suggested" to a dependency of libwild.

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Markus Schulz (schulz-alpharesearch) wrote :

I think this is important too! Please make this change if you really want to compete with Windows. Most users will never figure out that they need to install freepats to play midi in Firefox. In Firefox you get the install plugin and after that is is not working - AND NOW? Sometimes I think with linux it would be best just to install all packages and forget about the dependencies... this is really a pain in the butt.
Markus Schulz

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junk123 (junk123-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I installed freepats, now if I import a mid into Rythmbox it does not complain, however after it finishes playing and I attempt to play it again it prompts me to search for a suitable codec again. in Totem however, if I open a brand new session and open a midi it says "totem could not play 'file:///home/user/Music/MIDI/1942.mid there is no plugin to handle this movie"

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Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu) wrote :

If gnome-app-install/synaptic et al would install recommends by default (bug #8896) this wouldn't be needed.

Sebastian, Emmet: what do you think about it? Is there an alternative way of making this work without freepats? Because freepats is very heavy (34.0MB installed).

Changed in gst-plugins-bad0.10:
status: New → Invalid
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Duncan Hawthorne (duncan.hawthorne) wrote :

this is done in intrepid now. bug #8896 is fix released so fixes this
libwildmidi0 recommends freepats, so is installed when libwildmidi0 is installed

Changed in wildmidi:
status: New → Fix Released
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