Just had this pop up on startup

[akash-vartak]

I had this error message shown to me when I started Sonic Pi for the first time

I am using a Lenovo S510P with Windows 10.

Detailed Error Report:

GUI log

[GUI] - shutting down any old audio servers...
[GUI] - using default editor colours
[GUI] - starting UDP OSC Server on port 4558...[GUI] - booting live coding server

[GUI] - UDP OSC Server ready and listening
[GUI] - waiting for server to connect...
[GUI] - server failed to start with this error message:
> Server Exception:
Boot - Unable to connect to scsynth
[GUI] - critical error!

Server Errors

Could not load did_you_mean
Failed to start server: Boot - Unable to connect to scsynth
C:/Program Files (x86)/Sonic Pi/app/server/sonicpi/lib/sonicpi/scsynthexternal.rb:206:in boot_and_wait' C:/Program Files (x86)/Sonic Pi/app/server/sonicpi/lib/sonicpi/scsynthexternal.rb:223:inboot_server_windows'
C:/Program Files (x86)/Sonic Pi/app/server/sonicpi/lib/sonicpi/scsynthexternal.rb:119:in boot' C:/Program Files (x86)/Sonic Pi/app/server/sonicpi/lib/sonicpi/scsynthexternal.rb:59:ininitialize'
C:/Program Files (x86)/Sonic Pi/app/server/sonicpi/lib/sonicpi/server.rb:49:in new' C:/Program Files (x86)/Sonic Pi/app/server/sonicpi/lib/sonicpi/server.rb:49:ininitialize'
C:/Program Files (x86)/Sonic Pi/app/server/sonicpi/lib/sonicpi/studio.rb:27:in new' C:/Program Files (x86)/Sonic Pi/app/server/sonicpi/lib/sonicpi/studio.rb:27:ininitialize'
C:/Program Files (x86)/Sonic Pi/app/server/sonicpi/lib/sonicpi/mods/sound.rb:106:in new' C:/Program Files (x86)/Sonic Pi/app/server/sonicpi/lib/sonicpi/mods/sound.rb:106:inblock (2 levels) in included'
C:/Program Files (x86)/Sonic Pi/app/gui/qt/release/../../../../app/server/bin/sonic-pi-server.rb:109:in new' C:/Program Files (x86)/Sonic Pi/app/gui/qt/release/../../../../app/server/bin/sonic-pi-server.rb:109:in

'

Server Output

Device options:

• MME : Microsoft Sound Mapper - Input (device #0 with 2 ins 0 outs)
• MME : Microphone (Realtek High Defini (device play_pads not stopping #1 with 2 ins 0 outs)
• MME : Microsoft Sound Mapper - Output (device Thread sync/drift #2 with 0 ins 2 outs)
• MME : Speakers (Realtek High Definiti (device Note lengths vs BPM #3 with 0 ins 2 outs)
• Windows DirectSound : Primary Sound Capture Driver (device Auto stop after about 4 minutes #4 with 2 ins 0 outs)
• Windows DirectSound : Microphone (Realtek High Definition Audio) (device Removes binaries from source tree. #5 with 2 ins 0 outs)
• Windows DirectSound : Primary Sound Driver (device Use $HOME rather than /home/pi #6 with 0 ins 2 outs)
• Windows DirectSound : Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio) (device Add facility to select sound output #7 with 0 ins 2 outs)

Booting with:
In: MME : Microphone (Realtek High Defini
Out: MME : Speakers (Realtek High Definiti
Using protocol: udp

[rostislav-rocket]

On MacOS X 10.10.5 (14F27)

Detailed Error Report:

GUI log
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[GUI] - shutting down any old audio servers...
[GUI] - using default editor colours
[GUI] - booting live coding server
[GUI] - starting UDP OSC Server on port 4558...
[GUI] - UDP OSC Server ready and listening
[GUI] - waiting for server to connect...
[GUI] - server failed to start with this error message: 
      > Failed to open server port 4557, is scsynth already running?
[GUI] - critical error!



Server Errors
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Server Output
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Using protocol: udp

[samaaron]

Does this message appear after a restart?

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On 2 Oct 2015, at 13:57, Rostislav Ustiujaninov [email protected] wrote:

On MacOS X 10.10.5 (14F27)

Detailed Error Report:

GUI log

[GUI] - shutting down any old audio servers...
[GUI] - using default editor colours
[GUI] - booting live coding server
[GUI] - starting UDP OSC Server on port 4558...
[GUI] - UDP OSC Server ready and listening
[GUI] - waiting for server to connect...
[GUI] - server failed to start with this error message:
> Failed to open server port 4557, is scsynth already running?
[GUI] - critical error!

Server Errors

Server Output

Using protocol: udp
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[akash-vartak]

Yup, something on similar lines...

[rostislav-rocket]

@samaaron Sorry can't really say - I restart mac once in a blue moon (system crashes or OS upgrades), but when I do - will post my comment

[samaaron]

@rostislav-rocket the reason I ask is that's restarting is the easiest way to fix the standard issue which is a zombied scsynth process. If you're keen on keeping your Mac running - you can try and kill any rogue scsynth processes. Opening a terminal and running killall scsynth should do the trick...

[rostislav-rocket]

@samaaron You were right about scsynth processes - after executing killall scsynth the app works normally 👍

[akash-vartak]

@samaaron , @rostislav-rocket , That above method is not working for me

[samaaron]

@akash-vartak have you ever managed to boot sonic pi and make noise on your system or has it always failed on boot?

[akash-vartak]

It has now started, i can code...but still no sound...

[briancaffey]

Having similar issues on a 64 bit Mac OSX
It was working fine then this message popped up out of nowhere:

Detailed Error Report:

GUI log

[GUI] - shutting down any old audio servers...
[GUI] - using default editor colours
[GUI] - starting UDP OSC Server on port 4558...
[GUI] - UDP OSC Server ready and listening
[GUI] - booting live coding server
[GUI] - waiting for server to connect...
[GUI] - server failed to start with this error message:
> Failed to open server port 4557, is scsynth already running?
[GUI] - critical error!

Server Errors

Server Output

Using protocol: udp

[samaaron]

Sorry about this - looks like scsynth has zombied.

Does it work after a reboot?