Sound filename empty??

Mon Feb 18 21:27:23 UTC 2013

Ah, I didn't even think to do that. The sounds work fine when they are in a
new e-prime file! It must be something in this program other than the sound
that it doesn't like. I don't understand though, it's a pretty simple
experiment. It just plays some sounds, shows some pictures, and has a few
text displays. There was some code because it is an fMRI study and needs to
connect to the port, but I tried commenting out the code in case that was
the problem and it still was messed up. I keep getting this error though.

"Run-time Error (Line 802) -999: Unable to find the sound file specified"

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 2:37 PM, David McFarlane <mcfarla9 at msu.edu> wrote:

> What happens when you run the SoundRT example that comes with E-Prime?
>  What happens if you substitute the sound files in SoundRT with your the
> sound files from your new experiment?  What happens when you try to play
> your sound files with a simple .es2 program that does nothing but play
> sound files?
>
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> At 2/18/2013 08:49 AM Monday, cogneuro wrote:
>
>> Thank you guys for the replies! I've looked for whitespace and could not
>> find any. The names are very short and simple and I highlighted them to see
>> if there was any spaces. Anything else it could be? Does changing the
>> buffer size impact this? I am totally stumped as to why this won't work
>> other than it being a weird window's 7 problem with e-prime 2.0
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 11:03 AM, David McFarlane <<mailto:
>> mcfarla9 at msu.edu>mcfa**rla9 at msu.edu <mcfarla9 at msu.edu>> wrote:
>> Among the exotic characters to look out for is whitespace (e.g., space,
>> tab) at the end of file names.  *You* will not see that white space, but
>> the *computer* will, and will insist on matching the names using whitespace
>> and all.
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>> At 2/14/2013 07:12 PM Thursday, Paul Groot wrote:
>> no idea, except for trivial ones...
>>
>> Are there any exotic characters in the name of the file. Try renaming it
>> to a short name.
>> Also make sure to include the file extension properly. Windows explorer
>> doesn't show the file extension by default, so you should change this
>> setting to make sure you see the complete name. And be sure not to use
>> double extensions in explorer. A see this very often because some people
>> add a second extension when the first was not visible. I think this is not
>> a problem when you just select an existing file with using the file
>> selection dialog box.
>>
>> paul
>>
>> On 14 February 2013 21:08, cogneuro <<mailto:neuropsych76 at gmail.**com<neuropsych76 at gmail.com>
>> >neuropsych76 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thank you for the reply :)
>>
>> I did try what you said and while I'm still having issues, I think I'm
>> making progress. The error message I get now after removing all of the
>> unreferenced objects is, ' Run-time Error (Line 802) -999: Unable to find
>> the sound file specified' But I know for sure I am using the same name as
>> the file in my folder! Do you know what else could cause this error??
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Paul Groot <<mailto:pfc.groot at gmail.com
>> >p**fc.groot at gmail.com <pfc.groot at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> I would try to run the same script, but with all audio completely
>> removed. Just to make check if it is related to the sound. You could also
>> try to create a very simple test script that only has a start-up screen and
>> a sound object to play the audio (using the same settings as the original
>> script). The idea is to isolate the problem/crash to get an idea of what is
>> going on. Because the crash immediately occurs when the script is started,
>> it could be related to the initialisation of devices.
>>
>> paul
>>
>>
>> On 14 February 2013 01:05, cogneuro <<mailto:neuropsych76 at gmail.**com<neuropsych76 at gmail.com>
>> >neuropsych76 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> While I run the script, e-studio crashes. No error messages pop up. The
>> program starts to run, then a white screen appears, and then the entire
>> program dies :/
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 6:18 PM, Paul Groot <<mailto:pfc.groot at gmail.com>
>> p**fc.groot at gmail.com <pfc.groot at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> Does e-studio crash while editing, or are you having troubles when
>> running the script? Any error messages? Is it reproducible?
>>
>> paul
>>
>>
>> On 13 February 2013 23:19, cogneuro <<mailto:neuropsych76 at gmail.**com<neuropsych76 at gmail.com>
>> >neuropsych76 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ah, thank you! That did sort of work and I was silly not to check there
>> first.
>>
>> Now though the actually program crashes and I get a windows error when I
>> run my experiment! I know e-prime crashes a lot, but it has done it 5 times
>> in a row and I can't figure out how deleting unreferenced objects would do
>> this.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Paul Groot <<mailto:pfc.groot at gmail.com>
>> p**fc.groot at gmail.com <pfc.groot at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> perhaps there is a soundout object (or slide with sound) in the 'unused
>> items' section that was not configured properly. Just remove it permanently
>> to get rid of the error,
>>
>> Paul
>>
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