[CM] Advice on using snd's (play) from another program?

[Jenweil]

> I don't understand the question about "repl parsing"; you can give the
> index directly to play: (play 1), or the sound object, or the file name.

Sorry, I meant parsing from the listener. I like that (open-sound ...) gives me back a handle, and that the printed form shows what I can use to play.

In your example, I would have gotten back a "#<sound 1>", so my naive approach would be to parse that string in comint, get the "1", and store it along with the file name, so I know to execute (play 1), when I want to play "file.wav".

Is it possible to explicitly set which number I get back? Or somehow programmatically assign which number gets mapped to which sound file I open?

Thanks again for all your generous help.

On Thursday, January 16th, 2025 at 2:03 PM, bil at ccrma.Stanford.EDU <bil at ccrma.Stanford.EDU> wrote:

> > I'd like to avoid re-reading from disk, and keep everything in memory
> 
> 
> Linux, and maybe other OS's, caches files in memory.
> 
> > I don't know how to autocomplete for symbols
> 
> 
> If you're using Snd's listener, use the tab key when the cursor is
> at the end of the symbol-to-be-completed.
> 
> I don't understand the question about "repl parsing"; you can give the
> index directly to play: (play 1), or the sound object, or the file name.