[PlanetCCRMA] is this issue w/ CCRMA jack2 or 'drumstick-sysinfo'

[Niels Mayer]

> PS: one of the advantages of installing additional package
> "drumstick-examples" is you get a simple SMF file player with a gui (
> drumstick-smfplayer) -- seems like Fedora normally doesn't have a
> mime-type associated with MIDI so when you click on a MIDI file, you
> can't hear it. After installing drumstick, and setting it up to always
> play from my Yamaha db60xg, now any time I browse a midi file, either
> locally or in the browser, I get to hear it right away.

Actually, the other package updated and dependent on drumstick -- kmid
-- seems like it might be an even better MIDI playback solution than
drumstick-smfplayer (I guess I'll try it out when drumstick updates).

Name       : kmid
Arch       : x86_64
Version    : 2.0
Release    : 0.9.20080213svn.fc12
Size       : 339 k
Repo       : fedora
Summary    : A midi/karaoke player for KDE
URL        : http://extragear.kde.org
License    : GPLv2+
Description: KMid is a midi/karaoke file player, with configurable midi mapper,
           : real Session Management, drag & drop, customizable fonts, etc. It
           : has a very nice interface which let you easily follow the tune
           : while changing the color of the lyrics.
           : It supports output through external synthesizers, AWE, FM and GUS
           : cards. It also has a keyboard view to see the notes played by each
           : instrument.

-- Niels
http://nielsmayer.com