Trouble playing sound files

[Hannah Witherstone]

You are all absolute Saints!

All sorted:  I had to convert to .wav using Audacity and change the
sample rates in there - all files playing fine now.

Thank you,

Hannah

On Apr 1, 4:39 pm, Michiel Spape <Michiel.Sp... at nottingham.ac.uk>
wrote:
> Hi David and Hannah,
>
> 'Hannah, thanks for first going through the manual and making sure that
> at least the sound tutorial works, that is always the first step.  As
> one of my longstanding troubleshooting mottoes goes, "Better to start
> from success than from failure."
>
> Now just a slight correction, Michiel Spape wrote:
>
> > E-Prime will only work with wave files, forget about all other
> > formats
>
> However, EP2 can use .mp3 and .wma sound files.  Mich, for good cause,
> probably here refers to good old EP1, which indeed is limited to
> standard .wav files.'
>
> It can? Blimey :) I would, however, be careful using these two standards
> for two reasons:
> 1. Due to both being compressed formats, I'd not be immediately sure
> whether their timing is handled properly by E-Prime 2. Actually, I've
> never been sure on that front by E-Prime 1 and .wav files (I've heard a
> number of audible plops related to cutting of files or buffering issues
> when I used 50 ms pre-buffered wav files with 10 ms fade-ins and outs).
> Nevertheless, professional audio software tends to convert such files
> into .wav (or .au, if you're on a mac) formats, presumably for related
> reasons (can't be too sure on that though).
> 2. Due to .wma and .mp3 being lossy formats, you will cope with degraded
> quality, never mind that (at higher bitrates) it may be only
> psycho-acoustically subliminally so. I tend to think that if you want
> scientific stimuli, you will always go for optimal stimuli; by their
> definition, lossy formats are not. But perhaps, this is just a tech-geek
> way of thinking, in the same way that I really like big CRT screens
> running at 200 Hz!
>
> Have a nice Easter, everyone!
> Cheers,
> Mich
>
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