timidity-daemon package is useless

[Vadim R. Kotov]

Sorry for incomplete info, that' s actually my very first bug report!

I'm using KXstudio based on Ubuntu 12.04 with all updates enabled. It uses Jack as a primary sound manager with an automatic ALSA-bridge, which is really great for music production and daily usage as well. I installed tuxguitar 1.2 from the repository and it did not produce any sound with any of Timidity ports. In most cases one can just switch to "Gervill" (jsa), however it uses deprecated OSS, which is not supported in the default KXstudio install. So I have two options: use tuxguitar-jack + qsynth or try to make timidity working. In the latter case the solution is actually straightforward, I can just run

timidity -iAD -Os

and choose one of the newly appeared timidity ports in tuxguitar to make the sound work. To automate this I tried to add these options in /etc/default/timidity and /etc/init.d/timidity. Timidity started with proper options, ports appeared in tuxguitar, but the sound did not work. The files I tried to edit are all installed by timidity-daemon package, so I removed it and added "timidity -iAD -Os" to user's custom startup scripts. Now tuxguitar works as well as gnusolfege. Maybe it has something to do with user rights when run manually or during startup, I don't know, but the usefullness of the current timidity-daemon package is quite questionable. Maybe it can be substituted to a package installing a user -specific script or *.desktop file. Hope this helps!

System info:

1) lsb_release -rd:

Description: Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS
Release: 12.04

2) package version:

2.13.2-40build2

3) expected:

functional timidity ports in tuxguitar after startup

4) what happened:

ports appear, but none of them produces any sound

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Antonio J. de Oliveira (ajoliveira)]

Greetings, I am experiencing the very same issue. I will try to fiddle with configuration options to check if this may be circumvented.