[R-SIG-Mac] sound::setWavPlayer()

[Simon Urbanek]

FWIW the default should be to use "open" because that allows the user  
to map .wav to any applications they desire, you should not be hard- 
coding that in your code via -a.
On a similar note sound could do a better job of finding player since  
most users that deal with audio/video are likely to already have  
mplayer installed, so checking for mplayer and play may be a good idea.
Finally, playing sound on OS X takes one line of code, so adding a  
player directly to the package would be trivial (or maybe creating a  
package that does the playing if desired..).

Cheers,
Simon


On Aug 27, 2008, at 10:17 , Hans-Jörg Bibiko wrote:

> On 27.08.2008, at 15:43, Michael Kubovy wrote:
>
>> (1) Using Quicktime:
>> > require(sound)
>> > setWavPlayer('open -a \"QuickTime Player.app\"')
>> ....
>> > myplay(s, stay=TRUE)
>> This opened QuickTime Player and loaded Temp_Sound.wav. However, I  
>> had to click on the play button to hear it.
>
> As I mentioned before you can preset autoplay in QuickTime's  
> preferences and you can use the default 'play(s, stay=TRUE)'. There  
> is no need for myplay if you set stay to TRUE.
>
>> (2) Using the terminal-callable 'play' program.
>> I downloaded it from http://www.hieper.nl/html/play.html and  
>> installed it and then checked its availability:
>> % which play
>> /usr/local/bin/play
>>
>> > setWavPlayer('play')
>> [1] "WAV file player 'play' linked successfully."
>
> Yes. 'play' can be invoked without stay=TRUE.
>
> BTW with Audacity it works as well if stay=TRUE.
>
> I rewrote the R code for findWavPlayer(), play.default(), and  
> play.Sample() to interact with Mac better.
> Furthermore if options()$wavplayer is not a 'open -a' command the  
> chosen shell command runs in the background, thus you can with R  
> further without waiting for e.g. 'play'. This behavior led me to  
> introduce a new MacOSX function called 'stopPlay()' which kills the  
> shell process (if not 'open -a'). Additionally I changed these  
> scripts to use only one temp file. To work with it with QuickTime I  
> also included an Applescript to control QuickTime.
>
> I will post my changes to Matthias Heymann who is the maintainer of  
> that package.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --Hans
>
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