Incorrect plural in names of paths for soundfonts in Preferences

• Jan 20, 2014 - 16:06
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Functional
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3
Status
closed
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To remove incorrect use of plural, correct these names for paths in 'Preferences'>'General':

'Soundfonts folders'>'Soundfont folders'
'SFZ Files folders'>'SFZ File folders'

Using MuseScore 2.0 Nightly Build (d65c722) - Mac 10.7.5.


Comments

Take it to the next step.

1. Why the mixture of 'directory' and 'folder'?
2. Why plural either of the words at all (i.e. 'Styles directory' should be 'Style folder') since you only work with one folder at a time, regardless that the name of the real folder contains the 's'?
3. Maybe SFZ should have a better name, or share the SoundFont folder?

I agree on changing "directory" to "folder" (or "folders" to directories"), and also to dropping the "Files", but I'm not sure whether/why the other plurals should be wrong? There a (potentially) multiple scores, style files, soundfonts, plugins, etc in each of these folders.

Might indeed be a good idea for Soundfonts and SFZ files to share folders, but up to the developers to decide I guess.

Folder is more up-to-date and shorter so those longer names will still fit in the dialog. Saying 'directory' shows a DOS-ism.

What exactly are SFZ files? Are they soundfonts, or what?

Soundfont (*.sf,;*.sf2;*.sf3) are for Fluid, SFZ (*.sfz) for Zerberus, both used in the synthesizer. So both are sort of soundfonts, as far as I understand it?

Jojo, I don't understand why almost every entry on the prefs page in your pull is now singular (Plugin Folder, Template Folder), except SFZ and Soundfont (SFZ Folders)? The mixture of singular and plural still exists and doesn't make sense.

Because for the later two you can have more than one folder, it is a list of folders. All others have only one lolder.
Or to put it differently: there is only one folder for e.g. plugins, but there can be more than one for e.g. soundfonts

I did wonder about combining, but I have a feeling SF2 and SFZ are deliberately kept separate because of latter's loading time.

Might be wrong.

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Status (old) fixed active

OK, Werner agrees that Soundfont and SFZ folder should get merged:

"mmh, makes sense, having separate preferences looks a bit overengineered"

I'll have a go at it.