# Issues repeating an audio file across trials in 2021.2.3

**URL:** <https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/issues-repeating-an-audio-file-across-trials-in-2021-2-3/26856>\
**Category:** Online experiments\
**Tags:** sound, pavlovia\
**Created:** [January 17, 2022, 6:33am UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/issues-repeating-an-audio-file-across-trials-in-2021-2-3/26856 "2022-01-17T06:33:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 17, 2022, 11:17am UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/issues-repeating-an-audio-file-across-trials-in-2021-2-3/26856/2 "2022-01-17T11:17:47Z")

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I tried adding some silence to the end of the sound files because I found it repeated better if the original sound hadn’t finished.

> [@Odd behaviour with repeating sound files](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/odd-behaviour-with-repeating-sound-files/26331):
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> URL of experiment: [dictation2 [PsychoPy]](https://run.pavlovia.org/Wake/dictation-sentences) Description of the problem: I have a sound file that I set up with a sound component with zero volume. In Begin Routine I have sound\_1.setVolume(1) sound\_1.play() In Each Frame I have: if '1' in keys: if sound\_1.status == PsychoJS.Status.FINISHED: sound\_1.play() else: sound\_1.stop() sound\_1.play() I’ve also tried if '1' in keys: if sound\_1.status == PsychoJS.Status.STARTED: …

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