TiMidity++

[TheLimeyDragon]

This might be too niche a request. But I think TiMidity++ should be an included package (with a sound font). Not many people or games actually need MIDI playback but I do have old 90s games I run via WINE that use midi music and they would need Timidity installed if I was to run them on a SteamDeck or if people were running DOSBOX(-X) and wanted MIDI playback via that.

[MJ711]

What is stopping you from installing it?

[TheLimeyDragon]

nothing, the request is to have it as a base package.

[jrepin]

+1 I would love to see this as it would make it a lot nicer experince for us retrogamers. I also plan to test how SD would be useful for DJ-jing, music composition and general DAW work so having MIDI support out of the box would be great for me also because of this.

[TheLimeyDragon]

Originally posted by jrepin:

+1 I would love to see this as it would make it a lot nicer experince for us retrogamers. I also plan to test how SD would be useful for DJ-jing, music composition and general DAW work so having MIDI support out of the box would be great for me also because of this.

I'm also a weird nerd that nostalgia for 1990s/early 2000s midi music you'd find on websites. That I sometimes re-listen to :P

[MC Ride]

Originally posted by MJ711:

What is stopping you from installing it?

The fact there is no flatpak of TiMidity++ so he would have to enable developer mode and manually compile it from source and do it every time the system updates because of how SteamOS works. TheLimeyDragon should ask the developers to package a flatpak, but the project seems very stagnant, if not dead.

[MJ711]

Originally posted by MC Ride:

Originally posted by MJ711:

What is stopping you from installing it?

The fact there is no flatpak of TiMidity++ so he would have to enable developer mode and manually compile it from source and do it every time the system updates because of how SteamOS works. TheLimeyDragon should ask the developers to package a flatpak, but the project seems very stagnant, if not dead.

Makes sense.

[AsciiWolf]

Many Flatpaks from Flathub do already include TiMidity++ or FluidSynth. If the Flatpak you use does not include it, you should report it as an issue to the specific GitHub repo of that Flatpak. There is no point in making a separate Flatpak just for TiMidity++, this is not how Flatpaks work.

[Forks]

Originally posted by AsciiWolf:

Many Flatpaks from Flathub do already include TiMidity++ or FluidSynth. If the Flatpak you use does not include it, you should report it as an issue to the specific GitHub repo of that Flatpak. There is no point in making a separate Flatpak just for TiMidity++, this is not how Flatpaks work.

timidity is also a standalone synthesizer, and a daemon that you can use with WINE. So yes, still. It would be very nice to have. (and also do your research before posting as an absolute statement, this isnt reddit.)