Sound files not playing

[David McFarlane]

Also make sure that you run this under Windows 
XP, not Vista.  EP2 is known to have problems with sound under Vista.

-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder


At 7/9/2010 06:22 AM Friday, you wrote:
>Thanks for your suggestion!
>
>It looks as though switching the sound file from buffered to streaming
>may have fixed the problem, but if it does it again, I shall try this!
>
>We're using .wavs, and they're all very short files, around 2 seconds or less.
>
>Cheers,
>
>H
>
>
>On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Michiel Spape
><Michiel.Spape at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Hiya,
> > As I totally follow you when you say it would 
> crash if it couldn't find the files, or if 
> they're wrongly encoded, I'm suspecting it's 
> not playing them, because it skips the 
> SoundObject, or whatnot. Enter a small inline 
> just before the object that plays the file and 
> check whether it actually points correctly; 
> whether the inline is encountered, etc. You 
> could, for example, enter this in the user part 
> of your experiment (alt+5, user tab):
> > Dim trialnum as integer
> >
> > Then add this to the *very start of your trialproc:
> > Trialnum = trialnum + 1
> >
> > Then add this to just before the soundstimulus:
> > Debug.Print "Trial: " & trialnum & " should play " & SoundStimulus.Filename
> >
> > Then, simply check whether trials are skipped 
> and whether all ...should plays... are filled.
> >
> > Also: do you use any mp3s? I don't know if 
> that causes problems, but you could always test that.
> > Best,
> >
> > Michiel Spapé
> > Research Fellow
> > Perception & Action group
> > University of Nottingham
> > School of Psychology
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: e-prime at googlegroups.com 
> [mailto:e-prime at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Hester Duffy
> > Sent: 08 July 2010 18:09
> > To: e-prime at googlegroups.com
> > Subject: Sound files not playing
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > This may be a stupid question; I'm not a programmer, and am only
> > really learning e-prime as I go along, so I do apologise if there's an
> > obvious answer!
> > I have a program which plays short soundfiles and then asks for
> > keypress responses to them. However, some of the files are not being
> > played; I'm getting a short silence instead. The soundfiles exist, are
> > properly named, and contain the correct content, so I'm fairly sure
> > they are not the problem. I'm also fairly sure e-prime is finding
> > them, because it crashes if it's asked to use a file which it can't
> > find. It seems to be happening intermittently within a block, so I
> > don't think it's the list properties at fault either.
> > Any suggestions as to where else the problem might lie? I'm not
> > getting any compiler or run errors, which would point me in the right
> > direction!
> >
> > I'm using v2.0 professional, if that makes any difference.
> >
> > Many thanks for any pointers!
> >
> > H

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