> But I do wonder: sfconvert seems to have support for FLAC compression > for at least three years now. Why doesn't MuseScore support SF4/FLAC > yet?
SF3 was single-handedly driven by Werner Schweer from MuseScore, when they were in a need to reduce the filesize of soundfonts. It seems that further development @MuseScore starved after Werner stepped down from the project. https://musescore.org/en/node/20818 I do sympathize with the idea of FLAC compression. But I do not see a reason to bump the soundfonts major version again. From my understanding, bumping to version 3 was necessary because of the different handling of the sample start/stop markers AND to make implementations look up the compression flag 0x10 that was added to SfSampleLink enum. Everything needed to support FLAC, as far as I see, is to add a new compression flag to SfSampleLink enum that indicates that a sample is FLAC compressed. If a soundfont reader is compliant with Werner's SF3, it should ignore samples that have unknown flags set. (Hard to tell though, due to a lacking "official" SF3 spec from Werner.) So, there is no need to bump soundfont to major version 4, to my knowledge. Tom _______________________________________________ fluid-dev mailing list fluid-dev@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-dev
