[linux-audio-user] tool for unpacking .sfArk soundfonts

[Nigel Henry]

On Saturday 29 October 2005 10:55, Bill Allen wrote:
> Nigel Henry wrote:
> >Hi. Got myself a load of soundfonts from hammerfall. I'm ok for unpacking
> >the .zips and .rar's on my Linux box, but I've never seen .sfArk files
> >before. Is there a tool I can install on my Linux box to unpack these?
> > Nigel.
>
> http://melodymachine.com/sfark.htm
>
> Note that the native linux util is only for sfark version 2 files. You
> can use the windows version through wine.
>
> Regards,
> Bill

Hi Bill. Someone sent me sfarkxtc, but DOH, I found out all my DL'd .sfArk's 
were V1. DL'd the few demo's on melodymachines site, and these unpack ok. I 
do have to say that I'm rather disappointed with wine. The only program I've 
got to run on wine is seti at home, apart from Winamp, and why anyone woiuld 
want Winamp when there are many native Linux media players I don't know. Even 
seti at home on my FC2 install, which started off doing 8 or 9 data units, 
now only does 3 or 4 before freezing up, and refusing to send the results 
back to seti at home's server. Sorry for the rant. I've spent a lot of hours 
trying to get wine to install 2 freebie softsynths that I've got, and Making 
Waves, a step sequencer that I paid the licence fee for, for use on Win XP. I 
will try sfarkxtc under wine. I;m not that annoyed that I won't give it a go, 
and I know that  Mark Knecht and others are really trying to get vsti's 
working under wine. I'll try wine with sfarkxtc with a positive attitude, 
otherwise, I think I'll give Win ME an airing, which only ever goes online to 
get third party security updates. It will probably be delighted to have 
access to the desktop, and will willingly unpack the .sfArk's , after I have 
installed the program. Linux rules. Windows sucks. Nigel.

ps: To Win ME. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt if you unpack the 
sfArk's for me.