[MacPorts] #67181: solfege: Alternative for qtplay

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#67181: solfege: Alternative for qtplay
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  Reporter:  ryandesign  |      Owner:  (none)
      Type:  defect      |     Status:  assigned
  Priority:  Normal      |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports       |    Version:
Resolution:              |   Keywords:
      Port:  solfege     |
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Comment (by ryandesign):

 The upstream solfege project doesn't use qtplay, but it does need ''some''
 program to play audio files, and it has a configuration file where you
 specify which program to use for different types of files. The solfege
 port contains a patch that modifies the config file to use qtplay for all
 the file types that it can.

 /usr/bin/afplay exists on Mac OS X 10.5 and later, based on what I could
 find, so we could have the solfege port use that instead of qtplay on 10.5
 and later, except that the port currently configures solfege to use qtplay
 for MIDI files and afplay doesn't support MIDI files. I don't know how
 important it is that solfege be able to play MIDI files. If it is, we need
 another solution for that. FluidSynth is in MacPorts and seems to be able
 to play a sample MIDI file but even with the `-q` flag it prints useless
 output to the terminal that might be annoying. Timidity is another option
 that might be suitable (it's what the config file was set up for before we
 patched it) but it's not in MacPorts yet; see #51842.

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