Re: playing music with GP

[Charles Greathouse <crgreathouse@gmail.com>]

As Hans says, the key is setting up the Windows Subsystem for Linux.

On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM Hans L <thehans@gmail.com> 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 <mike_liz.day@tiscali.co.uk> 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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