Sound files not playing

[Hester Duffy]

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
>
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> 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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