Trouble playing sound files

[Hannah Witherstone]

Thanks for the reply.

I have tried .wav, as well as .mp3 which is my preferred format.

Yes, all the sound files are in the same folder as the experiment.

Hannah

On Apr 1, 10:36 am, jens <jens.bernhards... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> The sound files are all in .wav file format?
> They are placed in the same folder as the experiment?
>
> /Jens
>
> On 31 mar, 21:02, Hannah Witherstone <h.witherst... at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I am very new to E-Prime so please bare with me!
>
> > I have run through the 'getting started' manual and all of the
> > tutorials within.  I have successfully completed Tutorial 2 which
> > pairs the sound files 'Bob' and 'Linda' with images.
>
> > I need to create my own experiment which pairs a static image with a
> > sentence (will more than likely be recorded in .mp3 format), to which
> > the participant has to press the space bar when they hear a key word
> > within the sentence.  I need the reaction time (in ms) to this target
> > word.
>
> > For some reason I cannot get E-Prime to run my own sound files.  I can
> > make my own experiment and use the Bob and Linda .wav files provided
> > with E-Prime, but when I try and substitute these file names for
> > anything else the experiment crashes.  I get varying error messages,
> > all relating to the script line:  "Slide1_SoundBuffer.Load".  The most
> > common error message is:
>
> > Run-time Error (Line 263)
> > 18005: Cannot load sound file "hello.wav"
> > Mismatched or invalid block alignment
>
> > I *think* this is due to the sound file format set-up in the
> > Experiment Object Properties (where you can select channels, samples
> > and bits per sample).  I have tried every possible combination in this
> > section and still cannot get my files to play.  This is the case when
> > I use various .mp3, .wma and .wav formats.  I can play all of the
> > files fine through my laptop, so I know the sound files are OK.
>
> > Any help would be much appreciated as the manual is of no use!
>
> > Hannah

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