Can't play beepR in Arch Linux about beepr

[rasmusab]

Do you have any of the following programs available on the command line?

paplay
aplay
vlc

If no, does beepr work if you install vlc (like this, I think: pacman -S vlc)?

[marcofaga]

Yes. I already have all of them. I reinstalled vlc, but nothing happens.

[rasmusab]

Hmmm, ok then I would be super grateful if you would try out the following to try figure out where things go wrong:

1. Try running beepr::beep() in an R session started from the terminal. (So not Rstudio).
2. Try running the following commands in an R session:

fname <- system.file("sounds/microwave_ping_mono.wav", package = "beepr")
system(paste0("aplay --buffer-time=48000 -N -q ", fname))
system(paste0("paplay  ", fname))
system(paste0("vlc -Idummy --no-loop --no-repeat --playlist-autostart --no-media-library --play-and-exit  ", fname))

Did any of the approaches above work?

[marcofaga]

Hi!!

The aplay method works well.

With vlc method I can hear the beep, but returns the message:

lcpulse audio output error: PulseAudio server connection failure: Connection refused
[000055cc345120f0] dummy interface: using the dummy interface module...
[000055cc34441190] main playlist: end of playlist, exiting

The paplay method doesn't return any sound and show the message:

Connection failure: Connection refused
pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused

The beep function still not working.

[rasmusab]

beepr tries the methods in this order: paplay, aplay and finally vlc. If any of these three programs are in your path it will be used. As you have paplay installed, but it doesn't work for you, then beepr will use it and you'll get no sound. You have two ways you can get beepr working:

1. Fix paplay so that it works.
2. Remove paplay so that beepr falls back on using aplay.

Sorry for the annoying solution :)