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Add support for sfArk #426

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Would be nice to have SFARK support. SFARK is a compression algorythm for 
soundfonts files. support on macosx is almost gone, but many files are 
compressed using this algorythm. there used to be informations here: 
http://melodymachine.com/sfark.htm informations can be retrived using 
webarchive website:

http://web.archive.org/web/20050212221737/http://melodymachine.com/

Original issue reported on code.google.com by chiccoro...@gmail.com on 31 Jan 2012 at 10:37

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
It doesn't look like there's any documentation for the format, so it would have 
to be reverse engineered, which takes a lot of time. I probably won't have the 
time to do that anytime soon for such a minor format.

If anyone else wants to have a go, though, I can accept patches. Or if anyone 
can find any more information about it, that would help too.

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 31 Jan 2012 at 11:45

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 31 Jan 2012 at 11:46

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Sigh! thanks for answering so quickly anyway. 

I tried to look for source code and sent an email to the former author but they 
all seems desappeared in the dark.

Original comment by chiccoro...@gmail.com on 31 Jan 2012 at 12:16

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
If anything does turn up, though, post it in here.

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 31 Jan 2012 at 12:19

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
It appears that someone has done a bit of reverse engineering here:

http://www.linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=9854

Original comment by russell....@gmail.com on 1 Dec 2012 at 4:46

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Having read that, I am almost tempted to say support should not be implemented, 
just to discourage use of this format. Nobody should ever use it, and rather 
than try to unpack files in it, it would be far better to tell anyone who used 
it that they should stop.

I might still do it, though. Depends on how complicated it is to get that code 
working, though. (It seems to really might be complicated if you want it to 
actually run cross-platform, due to the idiotic reliance on the 387.)

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 1 Dec 2012 at 1:15

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Issue 668 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by paracel...@gmail.com on 7 Jun 2013 at 11:32