Call for help: TiMidity++ aRts users

From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh (hmh_at_debian.org)
Date: 10/31/04

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    This is a call for help of all TiMidity++ users that use it with aRts mode
    (KDE).

    I have just uploaded a TiMidity++ release to unstable (2.13.2-3) that tries
    to fix some troublesome aRts issues. It will go into testing in 10 days, if
    everyhing is alright with the dependencies.

    I am very strict about very high quality packaging, so I will not let
    TiMidity++ with broken aRts support into the next stable, no matter what the
    costs. And I cannot test the TiMidity++ aRts output.

    What that means is that if I don't get any sort of reports to work with (of
    either failure or success) in 10 days, I will have to remove aRts support
    from TiMidity++ for sarge with a high priority upload. Should that happen,
    I will re-enable aRts support in unstable after sarge releases, of course.

    Thus, this call for help. So, please, if you like aRts and would like to
    have it supported natively in sarge's TiMidity, test the new TiMidity++
    packages in sid and report back.

    Note that due to aRts long standing bugs, aRts auto-detection has been
    removed from the TiMidity++ 2.13.2-3 package, so you have to tell TiMidity
    to use aRts manually (give it the -OR switch, or configure it accordingly
    in /etc/timidity/timidity.cfg).

    I am especially interested in these tests:
      1. Does it work at all if you tell it to use aRts (timidity -OR) ?
      2. Does it work if you stop the playback for some time (above your
         aRts automatic suspend timeout, tipically 60s) and start playing
         again?
      3. If you give it a few MIDI/MOD files, does it work when you tell it
         to skip to the next file while still playing the previous file?
         Even if you are using the GTK+ interface (timidity -ig -OR) ?
      4. Does it work in ALSA synt mode at all with aRts output
         (timidity -iA -OR, you will need to feed it MIDI files through the
          ALSA sequencer using rosegarden, or pmidi, or something like that)?

    If some aRts enthusiasts would be so kind as to email me offering their help
    in testing further TiMidity aRts fixes, I am sure I could bring TiMidity aRts
    support up to par with the native ALSA support (hint: aRts is severely
    crippled on TiMidity upstream if you compare it to native ALSA, and nobody
    upstream is working on it at all). 

    -- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
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