Playing Sound In Pyo And Python

I am trying out the pyo for python. I installed the pyo for ubuntu using these commands from the homepage: sudo apt-get install libjack-jackd2-dev libportmidi-dev portaudio19-dev l

Solution 1:

Step 1. You should list your audio hardware:

from pyo import *

print("Audio host APIS:")
pa_list_host_apis()
pa_list_devices()
print("Default input device: %i" % pa_get_default_input())
print("Default output device: %i" % pa_get_default_output())

On my system result is:

Audio host APIS:
index: 0, id: 8, name: ALSA, num devices: 10, default in: 9, default out: 9
index: 1, id: 7, name: OSS, num devices: 0, default in: -1, default out: -1
AUDIO devices:
0: OUT, name: HDA Intel HDMI: 0 (hw:0,3), host api index: 0, default sr: 44100 Hz, latency: 0.005805 s
1: OUT, name: HDA Intel HDMI: 1 (hw:0,7), host api index: 0, default sr: 44100 Hz, latency: 0.005805 s
2: OUT, name: HDA Intel HDMI: 2 (hw:0,8), host api index: 0, default sr: 44100 Hz, latency: 0.005805 s
3: OUT, name: HDA Intel HDMI: 3 (hw:0,9), host api index: 0, default sr: 44100 Hz, latency: 0.005805 s
4: OUT, name: HDA Intel HDMI: 4 (hw:0,10), host api index: 0, default sr: 44100 Hz, latency: 0.005805 s
5: IN, name: HDA Intel PCH: CS4208 Analog (hw:1,0), host api index: 0, default sr: 44100 Hz, latency: 0.005805 s
6: OUT, name: HDA Intel PCH: CS4208 Digital (hw:1,1), host api index: 0, default sr: 44100 Hz, latency: 0.005805 s
7: OUT, name: hdmi, host api index: , default sr: 44100 Hz, latency: 0.005805 s
8: IN, name: pulse, host api index: 0, default sr: 44100 Hz, latency: 0.008707 s
8: OUT, name: pulse, host api index: 0, default sr: 44100 Hz, latency: 0.008707 s
9: IN, name: default, host api index: 0, default sr: 44100 Hz, latency: 0.008707 s
9: OUT, name: default, host api index: 0, default sr: 44100 Hz, latency: 0.008707 s
Default input device: 9
Default output device: 9

Step 2. Choose preferred device. In my case device 9 is ok.

from pyo import *

s = Server(duplex=0)
s.setOutputDevice(9) # Use device from the previous step
s.boot()
s.start()
# Try to play sound
a = Sine(mul=0.01).out()

Solution 2:

Got it working on Ubuntu 20.04

After trying several things and a lot of frustration... the following worked:

sudo apt install python3-pyo

and the test:

#/usr/bin/env python3
from pyo import *
s = Server()
s.boot()
s.start()
a = Sine(freq=440, mul=0.5)
a.out()
time.sleep(2)
a.stop()
s.stop()

produces a 2 second 440Hz sine sound as desired. Maybe a reboot was needed.

The Ubuntu package must be installing some missing binary dependencies, without which pyo was throwing PyoServerStateException.

More details at: Pyo server.boot() fails with pyolib._core.PyoServerStateException on Ubuntu 14.04