FreeSound Quark Update

Hi reaktorplayer,

If you are just startin out with SuperCollider, I suggest you subscribe to sc-users mailing list:
http://www.beast.bham.ac.uk/research/sc_mailing_lists.shtml

You can search the archives from here:
http://n2.nabble.com/New-SuperCollider-Mailing-Lists-Forums-Use-These-f2681727.html

See the Quark and Quarks help file in SuperCollider for an answer to your question. You can also run Quarks.gui in SC environment and it’s more or less self explanatory from there. Feel free to ask questions if you run into problems.

Hi Batuhan,

Thanks so much for this great addition to SuperCollider! I downloaded it today and started using it, but after a couple of hours it stopped working. I dug in to find out why, and it looks like the responses I was getting from Freesound had changed (the “Keep-Alive” line was no longer there), and your code for parsing the responses to get the file download location was breaking as a result of the change. I went in to the source and made a change that fixes the problem I was having, and is perhaps more robust, as it doesn’t rely on the order of the text in the response. Here are my changes (inside of the downloadSample method):

responseHeader = String.readNew(File(”/tmp/scdlresponseheader”++sampleIDBucket[argIndex]++uniqueID, “r”));
responseHeader = responseHeader.findRegexp(”^Location: (.*?)$”)[1][1];
fileName = responseHeader[responseHeader.findBackwards("/")+1..responseHeader.size-1];
downloadFunc.value;

… basically, all I’m doing is not erasing the spaces and line breaks like you did, and instead using a regular expression to find the line that starts with “Location: “. It seems to work fine so far, although I’m not very experienced with SC, so maybe you had your reasons for your approach. Anyway, thanks again!

I think maybe the change was me accidentally reverting to an older version of the quark! Oops. So, maybe my code change is not needed Thanks for the response. I’m looking forward to making lots of crazy sound!