[haskell-art] Playing a beep

[Henning Thielemann]

On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, Henning Thielemann wrote:

> On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, Håkan Thörngren wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I am developing a calculator simulator which can do simple beeps.  The 
>> simulator figures
>> out the frequency and duration of the beep and informs a separate thread 
>> about it. That
>> thread is then supposed to perform the actual playing of the beep.
>> 
>> So far I have tried to use Synthesizer and I can sometimes get some 
>> fragments of beeps to
>> occur, but it  is very erratic and often/soon I tend to get:
>> 
>> <interactive>: fd:19: hPutBuf: resource vanished (Broken pipe)
>> 
>> after which no beeps occurs.  Probably my thread dies when this happens.
>
> Too bad. I thought Sox would be an easy and portable way. But people already 
> reported problems on Windows. Now Mac. I use Linux, where I also encountered 
> a bug recently. Maybe a Sox bug? Have you tried 'sox' package and included 
> examples alone?
>
> Please see haskell-art archive. We had a discussion about such issues a month 
> ago or so.

I also have
    http://hackage.haskell.org/package/synthesizer-alsa
  where I output sound via ALSA. Would that be an alternative?