Restim: e-stim audio generation software

[diglet]

Thank you, I did not realize you have to do some git magic to commit a file with +x permissions. I also copied your version of the script.

On my linux VM it still doesn't execute when double-clicking. It appears the default behavior is to open scripts in gedit since 13.04, even if they have +x.

[thebears73]

no idea what you guys are talking about. Any pictures to help tell the story of what actually needs to be done here to get this to run on a mac?

[thebears73]

no idea what you guys are talking about. Any pictures to help tell the story of what actually needs to be done here to get this to run on a mac?

Can not right click and open with terminal, renaming also comes up with insufficient privileges despite being full read/write

[darthjj]

Thank you, I did not realize you have to do some git magic to commit a file with +x permissions. I also copied your version of the script.

On my linux VM it still doesn't execute when double-clicking. It appears the default behavior is to open scripts in gedit since 13.04, even if they have +x.

I suspected it was possible to save file permissions in git, but I had to look up how to actually do it :) I also noticed that "git add --chmod=+x" does not set the execute bit on your local file if it already exists, but it should work when someone checks out the repo (or deletes + git restore the file).

I suppose it could be some safety thing that it won't run things by default. Double-clicking on run.sh in Dolphin file manager, on Fedora KDE, runs Restim for me

[darthjj]

no idea what you guys are talking about. Any pictures to help tell the story of what actually needs to be done here to get this to run on a mac?

Can not right click and open with terminal, renaming also comes up with insufficient privileges despite being full read/write

I don't think anyone here except you has a Mac, but hopefully the procedure is similar enough to run it on Linux.

The run.sh script needs to have execute privilege, not just read/write. This was added after release 1.30 was created, so if your copy of the software is a few days old, try deleting the folder and downloading the latest https://github.com/diglet48/restim/arch ... master.zip

A quick search indicates that MacOS does probably not come with Python pre-installed, so you might have to get that first: https://docs.python.org/3/using/mac.html

Then run the run.sh script and hope for the best :) It might take a little while on the first launch since it probably has to download required Python packages. If you run the script from a terminal it should tell you what it is currently doing.

[LNS]

There are more of us with MACs, most of us have given up for now.

[edger477]

There are more of us with MACs, most of us have given up for now.

You can't expect that someone without mac will solve the problem...
I guess there is only one person that likes to fiddle with computers and uses mac but he is not in this forum...

[darthjj]

There are more of us with MACs, most of us have given up for now.

How far did you get? Have you managed to install a Python interpreter and run other Python programs?

[LNS]

Got it installed, python installed and an older version to partially come up but was unuseable. Haven't tried the latest version yet. Completely unable to get it to run on my more powerful M1 Ultra, but did get it to almost work on my M2 air. As I mentioned, it was partially up, just wasn't functionally working. At that point I gave up (month or so ago), realizing it wasn't going to do much good with my Coyote 3. I now realize that if I could get it to work I could potentially export MP3 files from funscripts.

Will give it another go but just frustrated at this point. I know it's superbly done and very capable, it's more likely my lack of understanding how to make it work natively on a MAC.

[froog]

Got it installed, python installed and an older version to partially come up but was unuseable. Haven't tried the latest version yet. Completely unable to get it to run on my more powerful M1 Ultra, but did get it to almost work on my M2 air. As I mentioned, it was partially up, just wasn't functionally working. At that point I gave up (month or so ago), realizing it wasn't going to do much good with my Coyote 3. I now realize that if I could get it to work I could potentially export MP3 files from funscripts.

Will give it another go but just frustrated at this point. I know it's superbly done and very capable, it's more likely my lack of understanding how to make it work natively on a MAC.

As. Mac user I have got it working without too much difficulty. I hope this helps give you confidence to keep trying. If you search my post history here you will see a thread where I posted how I got it working, but I'm guessing you already been through that. I have not tried the very latest version, but i suspect versions are not your problem?

[thebears73]

Got it installed, python installed and an older version to partially come up but was unuseable. Haven't tried the latest version yet. Completely unable to get it to run on my more powerful M1 Ultra, but did get it to almost work on my M2 air. As I mentioned, it was partially up, just wasn't functionally working. At that point I gave up (month or so ago), realizing it wasn't going to do much good with my Coyote 3. I now realize that if I could get it to work I could potentially export MP3 files from funscripts.

Will give it another go but just frustrated at this point. I know it's superbly done and very capable, it's more likely my lack of understanding how to make it work natively on a MAC.

As. Mac user I have got it working without too much difficulty. I hope this helps give you confidence to keep trying. If you search my post history here you will see a thread where I posted how I got it working, but I'm guessing you already been through that. I have not tried the very latest version, but i suspect versions are not your problem?

would you care to share some screen shots of what you did and how you got it to run please?

[edger477]

would you care to share some screen shots of what you did and how you got it to run please?

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[LNS]

Got it installed, python installed and an older version to partially come up but was unuseable. Haven't tried the latest version yet. Completely unable to get it to run on my more powerful M1 Ultra, but did get it to almost work on my M2 air. As I mentioned, it was partially up, just wasn't functionally working. At that point I gave up (month or so ago), realizing it wasn't going to do much good with my Coyote 3. I now realize that if I could get it to work I could potentially export MP3 files from funscripts.

Will give it another go but just frustrated at this point. I know it's superbly done and very capable, it's more likely my lack of understanding how to make it work natively on a MAC.

As. Mac user I have got it working without too much difficulty. I hope this helps give you confidence to keep trying. If you search my post history here you will see a thread where I posted how I got it working, but I'm guessing you already been through that. I have not tried the very latest version, but i suspect versions are not your problem?

Thanks!

[darthjj]

I now realize that if I could get it to work I could potentially export MP3 files from funscripts.

If your main goal is to generate mp3s, maybe you could run it in a Linux VM? You might not get 100% of Restim's potential if you don't live calibrate it for your own setup, but if you have separate left-right volume controls you could probably get good results by guessing the common intensity and setting left and right equal (and use the per-channel volume to make it feel right while playing it back later).

[LNS]

Thanks, not sure I'm technically savvy enough to know how to begin to do that. Appreciate everyone's help. Might see if I can snag a low end windows machine.