Please don't force FluidSynth to use ALSA

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Please don't force FluidSynth to use ALSA #1147

Open chewi opened 4 years ago

chewi commented 4 years ago

SLADE Version: 3.1.12a Operating System: Linux

Issue Details: You have hardcoded FluidSynth to use ALSA because it was apparently preferring JACK in some cases. Please review this decision as ALSA isn't necessarily enabled everywhere. In my case, I see this error.

fluidsynth: error: SDL2 not initialized
fluidsynth: error: Couldn't find the requested audio driver 'alsa'.
fluidsynth: Valid drivers are: file, pulseaudio, sdl2

chewi commented 4 years ago

Okay, I now see that you can change this in slade3.cfg but I'm packaging this up for Gentoo and I don't want users to have to do this.

hfc2x commented 6 days ago

Wanted to add here that on Fedora 40, SLADE 3.2.6 has horrible sound output when setting the FluidSynth driver to "alsa" in slade3.cfg. Music sounds all distorted, slowed down, and completely off-key. Setting the driver to "pulseaudio" fixes all problems.