diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 150d425..6b57c51 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ PySoundFile =========== `PySoundFile `__ is an audio -library based on libsndfile, CFFI and Numpy. Full documentation is +library based on libsndfile, CFFI and NumPy. Full documentation is available on http://pysoundfile.readthedocs.org/. PySoundFile can read and write sound files. File reading/writing is @@ -39,34 +39,22 @@ might be removed in the future. Installation ------------ -PySoundFile depends on the Python packages CFFI and Numpy, and the +PySoundFile depends on the Python packages CFFI and NumPy, and the system library libsndfile. To install the Python dependencies, I recommend using the `Anaconda -`__ Distribution of Python. Anaconda -provides the ``conda`` package manager, which will install all -dependencies using ``conda install cffi numpy`` (conda is also -independently available on pip). - -You will also need to install `libsndfile -`__. On Windows, libsndfile is -included in the binary installers (see below). On OS X, `homebrew -`__ can install libsndfile using -``brew install libsndfile``. On Linux, use your distribution's package -manager, for example ``sudo apt-get install libsndfile``. - -With CFFI, Numpy, and libsndfile installed, you can use `pip -`__ to install -`PySoundFile `__ with -``pip install pysoundfile`` or ``pip install pysoundfile --user`` if you -don't have administrator privileges. If you are running Windows you -should download the Windows installers for PySoundFile instead (which -also include libsndfile): - -| `PySoundFile-0.6.0.win-amd64-py2.7 `__ -| `PySoundFile-0.6.0.win-amd64-py3.4 `__ -| `PySoundFile-0.6.0.win32-py2.7 `__ -| `PySoundFile-0.6.0.win32-py3.4 `__ +`__ distribution of Python 3. This will +come with all dependencies pre-installed. To install the dependencies +manually, you can use the ``conda`` package manager, which will +install all dependencies using ``conda install cffi numpy`` (conda is +also available independently of Anaconda with ``pip install conda; +conda init``). + +With CFFI and NumPy installed, you can use ``pip install pysoundfile`` +to download and install the latest release of PySoundFile. On Windows +and OS X, this will also install the library libsndfile. On Linux, you +need to install libsndfile using your distribution's package manager, +for example ``sudo apt-get install libsndfile1``. Read/Write Functions --------------------