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[Michael Mehl <2047656@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Changed in: fluidsynth (Ubuntu Mantic)
       Status: Fix Committed => New

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Title:
  [SRU] Players terminate after stopping and restarting

Status in fluidsynth package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in fluidsynth source package in Mantic:
  New
Status in fluidsynth source package in Noble:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [ Impact ]

  Fluidsynth 2.3.3 has an issue where it will terminate upon start/stop
  of playback of a midi song, causing issues for a multitude of players
  including EasyABC. This will cause said player to be unable to
  playback again and perhaps even crash. See
  https://github.com/FluidSynth/fluidsynth/issues/1272, fix in
  https://github.com/FluidSynth/fluidsynth/commit/377ab9db2f87bc407eeb940e0361edc77da77055.
  This is the included patch with the upload of
  2.3.3-2.1ubuntu-0.23.10.1

  [ Test Case ]

  * To reproduce the bug:

  # download sample midi file from wikiepdia:

  wget
  https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/MIDI_sample.mid

  # play it with fluidsynth

  fluidsynth MIDI_sample.mid

  # at this point, you will actually be at a prompt. Wait for the song
  to play for a few seconds, then issue a stop command at that prompt:

  player_stop

  # And this is where the bug happens. Issue a continuation:

  player_cont

  And this is where things break:

  > player_cont
  > fluidsynth: error: The maximum playback duration has been reached. Terminating player!

  * With the fixed package, the audio resumes playback.

  [ What could go wrong ]

  This is actually a fix for a regression that was found in version
  2.3.3 of fluidsynth and fixed for 2.3.4, which can be found in noble.
  I think the only thing that can go wrong here is that this patch is
  not the actual fix and we need to find more solutions within.

  I have tested this in my PPA and it *seems* to fix it, but it would be
  nice if the original reporter could verify once this lands in
  proposed.

  [ Other information ]

  Included below is the original report, in which case the reporter
  deduces that the problem is the binary being spat-out is the 2.3.2
  version from the 2.3.3 sources. This is not the case, as it appears to
  be confusion due to the -2.1 Debian revision number. I assure, this is
  definitely the 2.3.3, and the bug, per the github link in the Impact
  section, is pertinent to this version.

  ---

  The latest package of fluidsynth should include the sources from
  version 2.3.3 but the binary includes only version 2.3.2

  This version has a bug (see
  https://github.com/FluidSynth/fluidsynth/issues/1272), which leads to
  problems in EasyABC.

  Please include the latest version 2.3.3 from upstream in the ubuntu
  package.

  --

  Description:	Ubuntu 23.10
  Release:	23.10
  Codename:	mantic

  $ apt-cache policy libfluidsynth3
  libfluidsynth3:
    Installiert:           2.3.3-2.1
    Installationskandidat: 2.3.3-2.1
    Versionstabelle:
   *** 2.3.3-2.1 500
          500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu mantic/universe amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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