Comments on: Erica Utilities and Utilities for iPhone

By: jfbouzereau

jfbouzereau — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:18:46 +0000

Hello,

I’ am trying to port “timidity”, an open source midi player, to iphone/ipod-touch. So far, I have successfully compiled and linked the application, but when It runs, the AudioDeviceStart
function gives error kAudioDevicePermissionsError.

As you have written the “playaudio” utility, I guess you are
familiar with the CoreAudio API. Is there something
special to be done on the Iphone platform to have this working ?

Thanks in advance for any help!

By: Erica Sadun

Erica Sadun — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:14:25 +0000

The file varies by shell. For example, .cshrc for csh and .profile for bash

By: leo

leo — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:34:13 +0000

I cannot find the file I need to edit to make this a permanent addition to path, I’ve spent a bit of time googling and can’t figure out how to add that path /var/root/bin

By: Erica Sadun

Erica Sadun — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 03:27:10 +0000

Yes, I have played wav with playaudio.

– Erica

By: mikek

mikek — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 03:25:55 +0000

Hi Erica,

Thank you for all the great work you’ve done. I have a question with the playaudio utility. Does it play .wav files? I get Vonange voice mails emailed to me, but the default quicktime(?) player can’t handle them. I was hoping to some how save -> play/convert them. First problem is I can’t even figure out how to save them from Safari. Could I change the default .wav player from quicktime to a script?

Thanks again,
Mike

By: travisrichardson

travisrichardson — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:55:43 +0000

does this include the calendar add button for the Touch? if not where can i get that?

By: derekbar90

derekbar90 — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:04:34 +0000

I also have found that you can open them in the finder.app just by setting it to run executables

By: Erica Sadun

Erica Sadun — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:33:18 +0000

Sorry! No way I know of yet for USB data drive support.

By: billgrove

billgrove — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:32:15 +0000

Is there a way to set the iphone as a USB data drive? I see there is a utility out there in the world for the Mac, but it still requires software on the computer. I would like to use the iphone, even if it’s just a partition or folder on the drive, as an external drive to carry around my utilities. If there isn’t one, you have your next project!

Bill

By: Erica Sadun

Erica Sadun — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:18:24 +0000

Unfortunately, the Erica Utilities are never going to offer interactive user interfaces because they’re a command-line package. If there’s something specific you need to use, you may want to hunt down a GUI application alternative.