(Help required) Fixing sonic-pi-tool (both versions)

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Hi!

Technical specs: MacBook Air (10.14 Mojave), everything is updated (brew packages updated too).

I’ve never took the time to fix my sonic-pi-tool but it is now more necessary than ever. The program works nice except for the most useful command: start-server. Here is a copy of the error log for both versions:

Lpil version:

Failed to load the fast_osc c-extension, falling back to pure Ruby version
Overriding fast_osc c-extension FastOsc::decode_single_message, falling back to pure Ruby version
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require': cannot load such file -- ffi_c (LoadError)
	from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'
	from /Applications/Sonic Pi.app/app/server/ruby/vendor/ffi-1.9.17/lib/ffi.rb:6:in `rescue in <top (required)>'
	from /Applications/Sonic Pi.app/app/server/ruby/vendor/ffi-1.9.17/lib/ffi.rb:3:in `<top (required)>'
	from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'
	from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'
	from /Applications/Sonic Pi.app/app/server/ruby/vendor/ruby-aubio-prerelease/lib/aubio/api.rb:1:in `<top (required)>'
	from /Applications/Sonic Pi.app/app/server/ruby/vendor/ruby-aubio-prerelease/lib/aubio.rb:2:in `require_relative'
	from /Applications/Sonic Pi.app/app/server/ruby/vendor/ruby-aubio-prerelease/lib/aubio.rb:2:in `<top (required)>'
	from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'
	from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.3/usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'
	from /Applications/Sonic Pi.app/app/server/ruby/lib/sonicpi/samplebuffer.rb:17:in `<top (required)>'
	from /Applications/Sonic Pi.app/app/server/ruby/lib/sonicpi/studio.rb:16:in `require_relative'
	from /Applications/Sonic Pi.app/app/server/ruby/lib/sonicpi/studio.rb:16:in `<top (required)>'
	from /Applications/Sonic Pi.app/server/ruby/bin/sonic-pi-server.rb:20:in `require_relative'
	from /Applications/Sonic Pi.app/server/ruby/bin/sonic-pi-server.rb:20:in `<main>'

Emlyn Python version:

Found installation at: /Applications/Sonic Pi.app
Running: /Applications/Sonic Pi.app/server/native/ruby/bin/ruby /Applications/Sonic Pi.app/server/ruby/bin/sonic-pi-server.rb
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/sonic-pi-tool.py", line 291, in <module>
    cli(obj=None)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 764, in __call__
    return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 717, in main
    rv = self.invoke(ctx)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1137, in invoke
    return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 956, in invoke
    return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 555, in invoke
    return callback(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/bin/sonic-pi-tool.py", line 256, in start_server
    subprocess.run([inst.ruby_path(), inst.server_path()]).check_returncode()
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'run'

It might be easy to fix but everything I tried so far was unsuccessful. I’m basically trying to run Sonic-Pi and edit code from the terminal using Vim or any other application. So far, I was just opening the app and letting it run in the background but I want to go one step further.

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To be honest, this sounds like something Sonic Pi should support natively.

What functionality do you need?

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My idea was to start the Sonic-Pi server from the command-line, with the ability to print the log back in the terminal too. By doing so, I might be able to indifferently use different code editors such as Visual Studio Code, Atom, Vim, etc… to play. I’m used to editing text and code using Vim keybindings + it’s easier to manage snippets. I can already do that with the existing packages but I don’t have any visual feedback.

Using sonic-pi-tool, I could launch the process from the Atom or VSCode terminal and keep an eye on it.

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Sounds good, although would you only want the log or also the cue log?

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Only the logs. I can’t use the english version of Sonic-Pi because my computer is configured in french, so to be perfectly clear, I call “log” the following :

{run: 1, time: 36.25, thread: :live_loop_b}
 └─ synth :fm, {note: 65.0, release: 0.5, amp: 0.125, amp_step: 0.5, pitch_slide: 0.25, pitch: 0.0, note_slide: 0.5, divisor: 0.5, sleep: 0.25, degree: 4, pan: 0}

and “cue log” the following:

/live_loop/metro  []
 /live_loop/metro  []
 /live_loop/b      []

I don’t know if having both is possible but I would definitely prefer the logs only.

EDIT: maybe I should tag @lpil and @emlyn. I definitely think that my configuration must be wrong somehow.

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Hi all!

sonic-pi-tool isn’t very clever about starting the server, it just searches for server/bin/sonic-pi-server.rb and executes it. https://github.com/lpil/sonic-pi-tool/blob/35e355dd85693ee0dc63ac8e00aa13311b24e1fd/src/lib.rs#L88-L116

It’s been a while since I looked at how Sonic Pi works but I seem to recall it including a specific version of the Ruby runtime as well as some dependencies. We should probably explicitly use these.

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The error in the Python version seems to be a Python2/3 incompatibility. I’ve just pushed a change that hopefully should make it compatible with both versions, let me know if it helps.

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Sorry, I wasn’t able to test until now. The new change you just pushed works, but the terminal is flooded with an error as I play:

Exception!
Connection refused - send(2)
["/Applications/Sonic Pi.app/app/server/ruby/lib/sonicpi/osc/udp_client.rb:30:in `send'", "/Applic
ations/Sonic Pi.app/app/server/ruby/lib/sonicpi/osc/udp_client.rb:30:in `send'", "/Applications/So
nic Pi.app/server/ruby/bin/sonic-pi-server.rb:456:in `block in <main>'"

When I try to open another terminal to get the logs, I encounter the following error too:

**{run: 1, time: 15.75}**
Exception in thread Thread-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.16/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/t
hreading.py", line 801, in __bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@2/2.7.16/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/t
hreading.py", line 754, in run
    self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs)

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/oscpy/server.py", line 359, in _listen
    cb(*values)
  File "/usr/local/bin/sonic-pi-tool.py", line 150, in handle_multi_message
    Server.printc(prefix, 'multi', line, typ)
  File "/usr/local/bin/sonic-pi-tool.py", line 130, in printc
    r += click.style(txt, **style)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 6: ordinal not in range(128)

It looks like my computer is trying desperately to run Python 2.7 even if I have the last version of Python 3. When I try to to run the following command: python3 sonic-pi-tool.py logs, the following error is printed back:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "sonic-pi-tool.py", line 6, in <module>
    import click

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'click'

The module click is installed both in my Python 2 and Python 3 package folder via pip.

I’ve been able to do what I intended to do by using both your version and the @lpil version:
— starting the server from your new version. Despite the error messages, it works pretty well.
— opening a new terminal and printing the logs using lpil version.

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It looks like it’s still not completely Python 2 compatible… when I get a bit of time I’ll try to look into it some more.
Are you sure you have click properly installed in Python 3? what happens if you run pip3 install click?

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Already installed: Requirement already satisfied: click in /usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages (6.7).

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That’s strange, it looks to me like there must be something up with your Python installation.
I think I might change sonic-pi-tool.py to use argparse instead of click, as that seems to be more standard, so might be less likely to have similar issues.

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I realise it’s been quite a while since the last post, so maybe this is no longer relevant, but I’ve recently made some changes to clean up and fix some issues in sonic-pi-tool.py, so you might want to give it another try (although it does still use click… so maybe you’ll still be stuck with that issue).