Installation

Processing CLI tool

Windows 11

1. Install Python 3.11 with Chocolatey

• Open PowerShell with administrator privileges
• Run the Chocolatey installation command
• Wait for completion
• Install Python using the following command

choco install python --version=3.11.9 -y

2. Download the installation script

3. Double click on the script to install

GPU Acceleration

GPU acceleration requires WSL2. For Windows native installation, only CPU processing is available.

To enable GPU support, install SSE in WSL2 instead, then run sse_install_cuda.

See WSL2 setup guide.

Ubuntu 24

1. Open a terminal

2. Install Python 3.11 with the following command

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:deadsnakes/ppa && \
sudo apt install -y python3.11 python3.11-distutils python3.11-dev python3-pip python3.11-venv && \
python3.11 --version

3. Navigate to your user defined folder

4. Download installation script

wget -q https://github.com/sound-scape-explorer/sound-scape-explorer/releases/download/v14.0.13/sse-processing-14.0.13.sh && \
chmod +x sse-processing-14.0.13.sh

5. Run installation script

./sse-processing-14.0.13.sh
# or from your file browser: right-click > Run as a Program

GPU Acceleration

After installation, run sse_install_cuda to enable CUDA acceleration.

See CLI Commands for details.

macOS 15

1. Open terminal
2. Install Homebrew

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

3. Install Python 3.11

brew install python@3.11

4. Download installation script

curl -L -o sse-processing-14.0.13.sh https://github.com/sound-scape-explorer/sound-scape-explorer/releases/download/v14.0.13/sse-processing-14.0.13.sh && \
chmod +x sse-processing-14.0.13.sh

5. Run installation script

./sse-processing-14.0.13.sh

warning

macOS Finder does not support directly opening shell scripts. You must run the script from Terminal each time.

Before installing Homebrew

After installing Homebrew

Installing Python 3.11

Downloading installation script

Running installation script

Desktop application

Windows 11

Download and run sound-scape-explorer-14.0.13.exe

Ubuntu 24

Run the following command in your terminal.

You will then have access to sound-scape-explorer application.

sudo -v && \
wget https://github.com/sound-scape-explorer/sound-scape-explorer/releases/download/v14.0.13/sound-scape-explorer-14.0.13.deb && \
sudo apt install ./sound-scape-explorer-14.0.13.deb && \
rm -f sound-scape-explorer-14.0.13.deb && \
sudo -k

macOS 15

Download and install sound-scape-explorer-14.0.13.dmg

Drag-n-drop application

Opening the standalone app

warning

macOS may block the app with a "damaged" error due to Gatekeeper.

Run this command to fix it:

xattr -cr /Applications/sound-scape-explorer.app

Then open the app normally.