Re: playing music with GP

On a similar note, I'd be happy to hear about it if anyone has a quick
solution for getting this to work on mac os.

John

On Fri, Jul 11, 2025, 15:22 Charles Greathouse <[email protected]>
wrote:

> As Hans says, the key is setting up the Windows Subsystem for Linux.
>
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM Hans L <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> It's part of package "alsa-utils" on ubuntu
>> sudo apt install alsa-utils
>> you'll probably need to run pari through wsl too (package name "pari-gp")
>>
>> -Hans
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM Michael Day <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Nobody's asked you yet - perhaps they're all unix users -
>>> does this work under Windows?   "aplay" appears to be
>>> a unix/linux/... app.    I run Windows 11 & do have a
>>> ubuntu 24 emulation,  but I don't know how to install s/w
>>> for it!
>>>
>>> Not desperately important (!),  but it looks as if it might be fun to
>>> try.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Mike
>>>
>>> On 09/07/2025 22:14, Bill Allombert wrote:
>>> > Dear PARI lovers,
>>> >
>>> > I have written a GP script to play music using GP (really play music,
>>> not just sending MIDI data).
>>> >
>>> > One need the "aplay" alsa utility. the instrument is the formula in
>>> the playnote
>>> > function.
>>> >
>>> > If you use the latest GIT version, you can use the first "start"
>>> function
>>> > instead of the second one.
>>> >
>>> > Can you recognize the music (without reading the score) ?
>>> > (Sorry in advance for any error in the score)
>>> >
>>> > Cheers,
>>> > Bill.
>>>
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