Hi, Am So., 19. Jan. 2020 um 21:26 Uhr schrieb Marcus Weseloh <mar...@weseloh.cc>: > Well, my use-case is to reduce the loading time of soundfonts stored > on an SD-card in an electronic musical instrument. [...] > Whether it actually has any benefit with regard to loading times > remains to be seen.
Turns out that I don't have a use-case after all. I created some FLAC compressed soundfonts, stored them in an SF3 file and did some tests on my embedded machine. Loading times were significantly longer with FLAC than with uncompressed WAV. So my loading times are not IO-bound... oh well. The soundfonts are about half in size, so transferring new soundfonts onto my instrument will be slightly quicker. But that doesn't happen often enough to be a good use-case. So, I second Garth's opinion and would like to pose his question again: Does anybody have a good use-case for FLAC compressed soundfonts (besides "it seems like a sensible idea")? And is that use-case beneficial enough to justify opening up the SF3/SF4 can-of-worms? Cheers Marcus _______________________________________________ fluid-dev mailing list fluid-dev@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-dev
