clips/crackles while playing .wav files

[Eddie Dubourg]

You can get a very noticeable thump/pop from a sound file if the waveform
isn't precisely on the x-axis at the start of the file.  Cool Edit (now
Adobe Audition) has a button that zero adjusts sound selections to avoid
this.

Eddie Dubourg
Computing/Technical Support Officer
Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
University of Edinburgh

U> -----Original Message-----
U> From: eprime at mail.talkbank.org
U> [mailto:eprime at mail.talkbank.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Conroy
U> Sent: 23 November 2004 18:16
U> To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org
U> Subject: clips/crackles while playing .wav files
U>
U> Has anyone noticed a "clip" or "crackle" type of sound at
U> the beginning and end of .wav stimuli? I created some tones,
U> which sound smooth when played by another program (e.g.
U> Windows Media Player) but not when getting played back by e-prime.
U>
U> Thank you in advance for any feedback.
U> --Matt
U>