error reading sound file(1)

Tue Mar 27 05:14:02 UTC 2012

	Quick update on the matter of non-ASCII filenames. I have fixed the way QuickTime handles non-ASCII characters in filenames or their path. QuickTime is not only responsible for playback of most of the video file formats on PC, but also handles mp3 audio files playback. Now it should be possible for CLAN to playback any media files that have non-ASCII characters.

Leonid.

On Mar 26, 2012, at 06:30, Christophe Parisse wrote:

> I would agree that this is new, because I didn't notice it before, but
> it's no specific to windows 7, it is also true with windows XP.
> So it could be related to some changes in CLAN.
> Christophe
> 
> Le 26/03/12 11:57, « Christophe dos Santos » <master.fle.1 at gmail.com> a
> écrit :
> 
>> Thanks Christophe,
>> 
>> I will tell the same to my students now.
>> The interesting fact is that older versions of Childes (e.g. the 2007
>> for example) seem to support non-ASCII character in the directory
>> name.
>> 
>> Christophe dos Santos
>> 
>> On 25 mar, 20:17, Christophe Parisse <cpari... at u-paris10.fr> wrote:
>>> Hi
>>> 
>>> I confirm that the presence of a non ascii characters in the directory
>>> name of the working file (wherever in the hierarchy) prevents CLAN from
>>> playing correctly videos (didn't know about sounds) under Windows. I got
>>> the habit of saying to my students nether to do that.
>>> 
>>> Christophe P.
>>> 
>>> Le 25/03/12 14:47, « Christophe dos Santos » <master.fl... at gmail.com> a
>>> écrit :
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Dear Leonid,
>>> 
>>>> I think that finally I found the problem.
>>>> It is not a problem of winmm.dll (the sounds worked with all the other
>>>> softwares I have installed on my computer). I will make it short
>>>> because the story of all my tries is quite long. Just to let you know
>>>> that at one point all my test were done from the desktop of my
>>>> session. From that place, I downloaded all the previous version of
>>>> CLAN and I discovered that the F5 button was working with 2007 and
>>>> 2008 clan version. I also noticed that these version of CLAN had
>>>> trouble with my user name (the administrator name in my case). As I
>>>> opened the clan file from my desktop the address of the sound file
>>>> included my user name  (  D:\Documents\Alcaçuz\Desktop  ).
>>>> As you can see, my user name has a special character in it, namely
>>>> "ç". Then I move the files on the root (D:\ ), where my user name will
>>>> play no role and I didn't have the error message anymore.
>>>> Then I strongly suppose that it comes from this special character in
>>>> my name. Could you confirm that it could be the source of the problem.
>>> 
>>>> Thanks for your help,
>>> 
>>>> Christophe dos Santos
>>> 
>>>> On 22 mar, 11:12, Leonid Spektor <spek... at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>>>>> Christophe,
>>> 
>>>>> This error message means that CLAN can't either find media file or
>>> your
>>>>> PC is missing a winmm.dll. Make sure that media file name on @Media
>>> tier
>>>>> matches actual media file name minus file extension. Also, make sure
>>>>> that file extension is .wav for wave encoded media file. If your PC is
>>>>> missing winmm.dll, then install Microsoft Windows Media Player. CLAN
>>>>> doesn't use quicktime for audio media.
>>> 
>>>>> Leonid~
>>> 
>>>>> On Mar 21, 2012, at 13:32, Christophe dos Santos
>>>>> <master.fl... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>>> Dear Brian,
>>> 
>>>>>> I have tried to change the format of the sound. I created a wav
>>> file
>>>>>> and a wav mono file and a new mp3 128kps file but nothing worked. I
>>>>>> opened all these files with quicktime, and it plays all these sound
>>>>>> files (though when I click on the sound file it opens it in
>>> quicktime
>>>>>> (I define quicktime as my default player) but I still have to
>>> click on
>>>>>> play to hear it). I restarted my computer each time I installed a
>>> new
>>>>>> version of a software, nothing worked...
>>> 
>>>>>> I am a kind of desperate.
>>> 
>>>>>> I am sending you the audio file on your email account.
>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks a lot for your help and your time,
>>> 
>>>>>> Christophe dos Santos
>>> 
>>>>>> On Mar 21, 4:39 pm, Brian MacWhinney <m... at cmu.edu> wrote:
>>>>>>> Dear Christophe,
>>> 
>>>>>>>    One possible cause of this is that newer versions of
>>> QuickTime
>>>>> (and hence CLAN) seem to have become less permissive in the range of
>>>>> sound file types they allow.  Why don't you send me a copy of your
>>> sound
>>>>> file and I can try to replicate the problem?  Also, you could try to
>>>>> modify the sound file format to see if that helps.  Can QuickTime play
>>>>> the sound file directly outside of CLAN?
>>> 
>>>>>>> -- Brian MacWhinney
>>> 
>>>>>>> On Mar 21, 2012, at 10:26 AM, Christophe dos Santos wrote:
>>> 
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>>>>>>> I changed my computer very recently and since then I am unable to
>>>>>>>> transcribe a sound.
>>> 
>>>>>>>> Each time I try I have the same error message "error reading
>>> sound
>>>>>>>> file(1)" followed by the location of the sound file.
>>> 
>>>>>>>> I tried to re-install CLAN or Quicktime, but it didn't work.
>>>>>>>> Now I have CLAN version 13 from 20 March and Quicktime version
>>> 7.7.1
>>>>>>>> and as OS, I have Windows Seven.
>>> 
>>>>>>>> I am quite sure, it is something very simple to fix but I can't
>>> find
>>>>>>>> where is the problem.
>>> 
>>>>>>>> If anyone have a solution to this problem, I will be very
>>> grateful.
>>> 
>>>>>>>> Christophe dos Santos
>>> 
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