I'd like to be able to play abc tunes on a PC speaker under unix (FreeBSD in particular) so that, among other things, I can do some simple pitch checking when transcribing them on my old laptop or PC.
I've looked at playabc, and it actually sends the sound through the sound card. These machines don't have a sound card. After many hours of searching I can't find anything to play abc tunes using the speaker, except a binary for Microsoft systems. I use the PC speaker to give hideous alerts when unusual system events occur, and I usually write the tunes directly in the BASIC-like format, as explained here http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=speaker&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+4.5-RELEASE&format=html e.g. one server runs this command if ever the network connection drops and needs manual intervention echo "O2L4a.aL8aL4a.>c<L8bb.a.a.g#.L4a.." > /dev/speaker and when re-established echo "L32<<<cc>cg>cegb>L4cL8<ggL4ag~L4MSb>c" > /dev/speaker My servers don't usually have sound cards, and I'd like to be able to store all my tunes notated in abc format. I have written and transcribed into speaker-speak much longer tunes for the listening pleasure of my bird who adores the beeps. But there is a limit to line length, so the tune needs to be sent to the speaker in consecutive chunks (phrase or bar). Then it seems to work fine. Is there any software that will head me in this general direction, even if I have to fiddle with it a bit? -- Regards, -*Sue*- To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
