Eprime 2-sound file problem

[David McFarlane]

Lidia,

Brandon Cernicky's assurances notwithstanding (see 
http://support.pstnet.com/forum/Topic3772-12-1.aspx ), little or 
nothing has changed in the over two years since these problems 
started, let alone in the 3.5 weeks since I posted that reply.  My 
advice remains practically the same as posted on 28 Aug 2009 at 
http://groups.google.com/group/e-prime/browse_thread/thread/c6f0aaf2eabf4f97 
(except that I would now add the same caution against Windows 7):

"In short, DO NOT use Vista [or Windows 7] for E-Prime 2!  E-Prime 1, 
by contrast, does seem to work OK under Vista.  Nevertheless, I would 
go even further to insist that Vista [and Win7] not be used for 
running any experiments, as Vista [and Win7] simply has not proved 
itself reliable for laboratory use in the way that XP has.  OK though 
to use Vista [or Win7] for *developing* the experiment programs and 
then move them to XP machines for running subjects, if you can get 
through the occasional glitches during development -- that's what I do."

That said, everyone should still submit this as a Web Support request 
at http://support.pstnet.com/e%2Dprime/support/login.asp and pressure 
PST to make this right.

<editorial>
But what happens to us later when Microsoft stops activating new 
installations of XP?  We really need to work out something on a free 
and open source ("FOSS") platform (e.g., using Linux), with science 
in mind instead of depending on consumer-grade technology, so that we 
are not so beholden to the vagaries of markets and corporate decisions.
</editorial>

-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder


>Dear David and Liat,
>
>This is regarding soundfiles using Eprime2 and Vista. I have also 
>made a request to PST Web support. I am waiting for a response. In 
>my case, my Eprime 1.2 was running smoothly with XP. Now we are 
>working with Eprime2 2.0.8.22 and Professional in Vista. My stimuli 
>have to be played 3 times, and the time between each repetition is 
>of 750 ms. However, the stimuli play at random times (sometimes 
>750ms, sometimes longer laps), and sometimes the stimuli just do not 
>play...in that case the Ctrl+Alt+Shift does not respond. Do you have 
>any solution to this or have news from PST Web support? Thanks very much.
>
>Lidia
>
>On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:46 AM, David McFarlane 
><<mailto:mcfarla9 at msu.edu>mcfarla9 at msu.edu> wrote:
>Liat,
>
>EP2.0.8.74 seems to have introduced new bugs with sound (movies too, 
>it seems).  I recommend simply reverting to 2.0.8.22 until PST comes 
>out with a fix, you almost certainly do not need whatever they added 
>in 2.0.8.74.  In the meantime, please also submit a request to PST 
>Web Support at 
><http://support.pstnet.com/e-prime/support/login.asp>http://support.pstnet.com/e%2Dprime/support/login.asp 
>so that they might take notice and fix this.
>
>-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder
>
>
>
>At 7/15/2010 04:25 AM Thursday, you wrote:
>Dear All,
>After updating E-Prime to version 2.0.8.74, and when I try to run my 
>script, which ran smoothly on previous Eprime2, I get an error 
>message about being unable to load soundfile 203. Nothing has been 
>changed in the script nor have any files moved. The error also says 
>to look up an Audio Report file in the My Experiments folder,which, 
>I pasted  below.
>
>This is a rather serious problem since we can now no longer run our 
>experiment, and I have saw someone else on the eprime support forum 
>have exactly the same problem, but no solution has yet been posted.
>
>Regards,
>Liat
>PS. We are running Eprime 2 in XP (since we originally had serious 
>issues with our sounds files when we were trying to run eprime 2 in windows 7)

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