[racket] RSound trouble with rs-write

On Oct 25, 2013, at 2:50 AM, Robert Matovinovic wrote:

> Hello John,
> thank you for your really quick fix. I had to install 5.3.6, because I used
> 5.3.1 with the planet package. rs-write works now. 
> 
> But the docs for rsound weren't installed. The installation hung as you
> described it. I waited at least 5 minutes, then aborted. When I looked up
> the docs, I only found the ones from the old planet package I had installed
> before. Does it make sense to reinstall rsound?

Two minutes ago, I answered another e-mail on the same topic; for some reason, the rsound docs are not getting installed properly.  I observe this as well.  I haven't spent the time to track it down, but I should do so.

John

> 
> Robert
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: John Clements [mailto:clements at brinckerhoff.org] 
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 24. Oktober 2013 19:39
> An: Robert Matovinovic
> Cc: users at racket-lang.org
> Betreff: Re: [racket] RSound trouble with rs-write
> 
> 
> On Oct 24, 2013, at 3:20 AM, Robert Matovinovic wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> I’m experimenting with the rsound package and ran into a problem. I can
> play the sound but I can’t write it into a wav file with rs-write.
>> Here a little code to reproduce the error on my machine Thinkpad, Windows
> 7, 64bit.
> 
> How embarrassing! I had lots of tests, but none for rs-write on a sound with
> inexact frame rate... which make-tone now generates.
> 
> Fixed and pushed.
> 
> BUT! 
> 
> Current development of RSound uses Racket's new "package" system, which
> replaces PLaneT.  Versions of DrRacket prior to 5.3.5 do not support this
> system.  So (apologies if this isn't the case) I'm going to assume that
> you're using at least v5.3.5. 
> 
> Also, in 5.3.5 and 5.3.6, the support for installing dependencies is a bit
> rough, so you must install portaudio first, and then rsound second.
> 
> In order to install the rsound package from within DrRacket: Choose File >
> Install Package... , and then enter
> 
> portaudio
> 
> ... and click OK. This should finish successfully in less than two minutes.
> Then, repeat the process for the package named 
> 
> rsound
> 
> . For some reason, version 5.3.5 and 5.3.6 seem occasionally to hang while
> building docs for rsound... if this happens to you (it says it's building
> docs, nothing's appeared in the install window for two or three minutes),
> just click "abort installation", and you should find that it's installed
> successfully.
> 
> Phew!
> 
> Following this, you should be able to run this version of your code:
> 
> #lang racket
> (require rsound)
> 
> ; setting of host-api for sound otherwise no sound is heard (host-api
> 'paMME) ; sample rate for host-api set in OS settings (define frame-rate
> 44100)
> 
> (define tone (make-tone 440 1 frame-rate)) tone (play tone) (rs-write tone
> "test-tone")
> 
> 
> 
> ... note that the 'require' line no longer specifies a planet package.
> 
> Let me know if you have any trouble!
> 
> John Clements
> 
> 
>