Tidal on Raspberry Pi 4 with Ubuntu?

Installation help
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This is really good to know, as ansible seems not to be an option for windows. I will send the link to anyone in trouble, thank you!

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Hey @renzo.rospigliosi, I know you mentioned you're using Ubuntu, so I don't know if this is much help, but I was able to get Tidalcycles going on Raspbian by following the install directions on the Tidalcycles page.

Except when I installed Supercollider, I used the sudo command, and I used Vscode (headmelted)

I'm booting off a SSD and it runs pretty smoothly.

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Oh I wanna try that too! Thank you

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Can you give me instructions on how to install tidal cycles on raSpberry pi

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TidalCycles stopped working for me on Raspberry Pi Raspbian. I tried @cleary's method above and the installation was smooth.

But when I try to start SuperDirt on supercollider, it says:

Found 0 LADSPA plugins
could not initialize audio

Any idea for a fix? Been Googling.

Thanks!

Johnny

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Have you got Jack installed/started?

I like to use qjackctl...

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I have it installed, but when I run qjackctl in the terminal it says

bash: qjackctl: command not found

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You'll need to install qjackctl too - it's a separate package,a gui frontend to JACK

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Thanks @cleary! I have it installed, but when I click start I get an error. It says "Could not connect to JACK server as client"

Any ideas? I tried Googling it, but can't seem to find anything.

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No idea from here - have you mucked about with the default JACK config at all?

It's usually a matter of just kicking it off from qjackctl, and it will default to your onboard audio hardware for inputs/outputs. For external devices you might need to muck about with the settings a little but...

Depending on how bespoke your setup is already, it's probably worth your while just nuking this install, go back to fresh, install jackd and qjackctl and make sure they're working, then run my installer and bob is ( or should be) your uncle

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Doing a fresh OS install got Supercollider going! I didn't even have to tweak JACK at all. I'm not sure what the issue was before because it was a new install when I first tried. But now when I try to run a line of code on VSCODE it says:

Getting token failed: Error: The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files

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this is because it's missing a keyring provider I think, try installing gnome-keyring

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Thanks, @cleary. I think I just gotta tinker with it a bit more. I got supercollider and vscode to work, but now when I run code, there's no audio. There doesn't appear to be any errors.

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No worries, I'm flying blind here without (haven't ever got it running on a pi) so I'll let you tinker further - post back when you've got it sorted, it'd be useful for anyone else :slight_smile:

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OT - but every time i see your united by fate avatar I get a warm nostalgic rush of being 15 !again

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if memory serves correct Yaxu had a USB bootable image on bandcamp, mentioned it may prove useful in the future for workshops wher the attendees use raspberry pi to include people who dont have a laptop. not sure if it went that far but maybe Alex himself could chip in here?

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I'm preparing some Pi 4s for a workshop this weekend, so have a SD Card image I could upload if you like.. It's 32G though (mostly blank space, but that's the size of the cards I have).

VS code was behaving strangely for me (jumbled windows or something) but a properly open source version of vs code worked fine. I'm not sure what it's called off hand, it was a couple of years ago that I installed it..

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That said I'm using it with pimoroni phat dacs, so wouldn't work out of the box anyway unless you happened to have the same.

Maybe your audio is going out to HDMI or something like that. I think you can configure that somewhere in raspbian..

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Thanks very much @cleary

I used Ansible today to install Tidalcycles on an RPi4 and it worked first time :slight_smile:

Only problem is i'm not mad about Vim.

I'm new to linux so maybe I'm missing something obvious but is there an easy way to use a bit more of a robust text editor instead. I'm used to Atom and i'm missing being able to move around the screen evaluating several bits of code. Also the way Atom highlights syntax. Vim seems more like a command line.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

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It looks like the landscape for atom on rpi has changed since I last looked - on the other hand, it looks like vscode is well supported:

This should be relatively trivial for me to add to my ansible tasks, I will have a look into it at some point