Re: [fluid-dev] Getting all instrument names from a loaded soundfont file

[Kjetil Matheussen]

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 11:34 AM Kjetil Matheussen
<address@hidden> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 11:30 AM Reinhold Hoffmann
> <address@hidden> wrote:
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> > Hi Kjetil,
> >
> > Thanks for the immediate response. libgig and the code sample really looks
> > good, simple and easy. However, libgig is under the GPL license. Our
> > software is a commercial software where we use the libfluidsynth library
> > strictly under the LGPL license. libgig does not offer the LGPL license but
> > only the GPL license which we therefore cannot use.
> >
>
> It's probably not much work parsing the soundfont files manually...

Here's the spec: http://www.synthfont.com/sfspec24.pdf
It's a common RIFF structure. In my experience, writing code to read
and write riff files directly are often faster than trying to
understand a 3rd party API.