Hello Leo, Leo Prikler writes: > Don't forget to keep the ML in the address line. Sorry I forgot it. [...] >> So it seems that also fluidsynth is not able to load that SoundFont >> [1] > Ah, yes, I recall not being able to load that font with FluidSynth as > well. Back then I thought it was an error in FluidSynth, but it does > appear to be an issue with the SoundFont then if not even MuseScore > loads it. Please are you reproducing the same error? I tried installing musescore3 (v. 3.2.3) from Debian stable and AFAIU that SoundFont is loaded (with a lot of warnings): --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Loading soundfont: /usr/share/mscore3-3.2/sound/sf3/MuseScore_General.sf3 Loading soundfont: /home/giovanni/MuseScore3/SoundFonts/GeneralUser GS v1.471.sf2 SoundFont(/home/giovanni/MuseScore3/SoundFonts/GeneralUser GS v1.471.sf2) Sample(Grand Piano-D1) start(0) startloop(35640) endloop(70786) end(70787) smaller than SoundFont 2.04 spec chapter 7.10 recommendation [...] Loading soundfont: /usr/share/mscore3-3.2/sound/sf3/MuseScore_General.sf3 SoundFont(/usr/share/mscore3-3.2/sound/sf3/MuseScore_General.sf3) Sample(Flute F#5) start(0) startloop(19435) endloop(29952) end(29955) smaller than SoundFont 2.04 spec chapter 7.10 recommendation [...] --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- musescore installed from Debian plays sounds using MuseScore_General.sf3 [...] >> Could it be a bug in some library? > If so, then it's two different libraries, AFAIU the error --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Sample::decompressOggVorbis: open failed: Not a valid SNDFILE* pointer. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- /seems/ to come from libsndfile [1], an input for both fluidsynth and musescore > as MuseScore doesn't use FluidSynth for MIDI synthesis – it's more > likely that the font is simply broken. AFAIU this is not the case > It would be nice to investigate when that font first broke or if it > ever worked. I'll try to do it in the coming days [...] Happy hacking! Gio' [1] https://github.com/michaelwu/libsndfile/blob/master/src/sndfile.c SFE_BAD_SNDFILE_PTR -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures