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scatherinch

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Registered: 2023-02-24

Posts: 160

[SOLVED] WINE: Midi Music No Longer Playing

This used to work flawlessly.

I like to play very old games and visual novels (sometimes JP) on my system.

However, recently, my system has stopped playing these formats in very old programs. (especially visual novels)

I went through the following steps just to be sure:

sudo pacman -S fluidsynth lib32-fluidsynth soundfont-fluid

sudo nano /etc/conf.d/fluidsynth (altered the followed as: SOUND_FONT=/usr/share/soundfonts/FluidR3_GM.sf2 )

sudo ln -s FluidR3_GM.sf2 /usr/share/soundfonts/default.sf2   (symbolic link for soundfont is created)

systemctl --user enable fluidsynth.service 

launch program via the following with JP variable in WINE: LANG="ja_JP.UTF-8" wine /run/media/user/harddrive/oldgame

I get sound, but no music will play in any of these programs as it used to. I could have sworn that I have everything set up right...am I missing something??? I even nuked the prefix and repopulated to get it working for JP based games just to be sure. Has anyone gotten MIDI to work? Can share advice?

EDIT: I don't understand. I got it working, but it isn't behaving like the daemon should. I have to do systemctl --user restart fluidsynth.service. Why? This should be running normally at boot. I used to be able to just go into wine, start my game and the service would be loaded and ready to go, i'd get the music, but I don't understand why it isn't working at boot anymore???

Last edited by scatherinch (2024-02-09 14:29:34)

scatherinch

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Registered: 2023-02-24

Posts: 160

Re: [SOLVED] WINE: Midi Music No Longer Playing

Well, I think I may have found a bug, actually...

I tried downgrading fluidsynth and lib32-fluidsynth to v2.30 and the daemon its supposed to start with is working as it should. I tested it on another machine as well.