pysoundanalyser
has been successfully installed and used on Linux,
Windows, and Mac platforms. Installation instructions for each operating system are
provided below.
For Debian and Ubuntu LTS releases there are apt repositories that can be used
to install and update pysoundanalyser
. For other Linux distributions
pysoundanalyser
has to be installed from source (see Section Installation from source).
Binary packages for the Debian amd64 architecture are hosted on
bintray.
To install pysoundanalyser
first install the apt-transport-https
package if it is not already installed:
sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https
then add one of the following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list
depending on your Debian version:
For Jessie (stable):
deb https://dl.bintray.com/sam81/hearinglab jessie main
For Stretch (testing):
deb https://dl.bintray.com/sam81/hearinglab stretch main
Download the key with which the repository is signed and add it to the apt keyring:
wget -qO - https://bintray.com/user/downloadSubjectPublicKey?username=bintray | sudo apt-key add -
Refresh the package database and install the package:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pysoundanalyser
A Windows installer is provided on the downloads page:
http://samcarcagno.altervista.org/pysoundanalyser/pysoundanalyser.html
The easiest way to install pysoundanalyser
on the Mac is
to use Pyzo as a Python distribution.
The steps are similar as those for the installation with Pyzo on
Windows (see below). Please, note that if you install with Pyzo you
will need to use the PySide version of pysoundanalyser
.
pysoundanalyser
depends on Python and a handful of Python modules.
There are two ways to obtain these dependencies. One is to install Python
and all the dependencies “manually” (that is one by one). The other (and easier)
way is to install a Python distribution that comes with a bundle of pre-installed
modules. These include:
Step by step instructions to install pysoundanalyser
on Windows with Pyzo are provided below.
Although these instructions are specific to Windows the installation steps are similar on Mac OS X
and Linux systems. If you get stuck at some point don’t hesitate to get in touch <sam.carcagno@gmail.com>.
Download the latest version on Pyzo and unpack it to a folder of your choice.
Download the Windows source package (PySide) of pysoundanalyser. Open the DOS
command prompt and change directory to the folder where you unpacked Pyzo
, which
should contain the python.exe executable. For example:
cd C:\Users\audiolab\Desktop\pyzo2013c
once you’re in the Pyzo folder, you can instruct the Pyzo Python interpreter to run pysoundanalyser by calling python.exe followed by the path where the pysoundanalyser main file is located. For example:
python.exe "C:\Users\audiolab\Desktop\pysoundanalyser-pyside-0.2.81\pysoundanalyser.pyw"
Currently there is not an application launcher. There is, however, a file called
pysoundanalyser-launcher.bat
inside the scripts folder of the source distribution of
pysoundanalyser that after some modifications can be used as a launcher.
The content of the file is the following:
C:\Python32\python "C:\Python32\site-packages\pysoundanalyser.pyw"
The first statement C:\Python32\python
is the path to the Python
executable. The second statement is the path to the main file of the
pysoundanalyser
app. You simply need to replace those two statements
to reflect the Python installation on your system. Following the example
above, you would change the contents of the file to:
C:\Users\audiolab\Desktop\pyzo2013c\python.exe "C:\Users\audiolab\Desktop\pysoundanalyser-pyside-0.2.81\pysoundanalyser.pyw"
You can place the .bat
launcher wherever you want, for example on your Desktop
folder.
Simply double click on it, and pysoundanalyser
should start.
pysoundanalyser
depends on the installation of a
handful of other Python modules:
additionally it is necessary to install one of the modules providing Python bindings to the Qt widgets toolkit.
There are three parallel versions of pysoundanalyser
that support the major
modules providing Python bindings to Qt (PyQt5, PyQt4, and PySide). You need to install only one
of these modules, and use the corresponding version of pysoundanalyser
these programs need to be installed manually. Once these programs are
installed you can proceed with the installtion of pysoundanalyser
:
python3 setup.py install
you can then invoke pysoundanalyser
from a terminal by typing the
command
pysoundanalyser.pyw
Please, note that you will need Python version 3 or above to run pysoundanalyser.
To install the dependencies, download them from their respective websites. Make sure that you pick versions compatible with your architecture (64 or 32 bits), and compatible with you Python version.
After installing the dependencies, it is recommended to add the
directory where the Python executable resides to the system PATH
. In
this way you can call python
from a DOS
shell by simply typing
its name, rather than typing the full path to the Python executable.
By default python
is installed in C:
. The name of the Python
directory depends on its version number, for example, if you installed
Python version 3.2, the python directory will be C:\Python32
. To add
this directory to the system path go to My Computer
and click
Properties
, then click Advanced System Settings
. In the
System Properties
window click Environment Variables
. There you
will find an entry called Path
. Select it and click Edit
. Be
careful not to remove any of the entries that are already written there
because it could corrupt your system. Simply append the name of the full
path of the folder where Python is installed, at the end of the
other entries.
To run pysoundanalyser
, unpack the pysoundanalyser
.zip
file containing the source code. Open a DOS
shell, cd
to the directory
where you unzipped pysoundanalyser and launch it with the following
command:
python pysoundanalyser.pyw
Currently there is not an application launcher. There is, however, a file called
pysoundanalyser-launcher.bat
inside the scripts folder of the source distribution of
pysoundanalyser that after some modifications can be used as a launcher.
The content of the file is the following:
C:\Python32\python "C:\Python32\site-packages\pysoundanalyser.pyw"
The first statement C:\Python32\python
is the path to the Python
executable. The second statement is the path to the main file of the
pysoundanalyser
app. You simply need to replace those two statements
to reflect the Python installation on your system. You can place the .bat
launcher wherever you want, for example on your Desktop
folder.
Simply double click on it, and pysoundanalyser
should start.