Psychopy does'nt reconise sound file

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Playing quatrophonic sound (4.0 surround-sound) in psychopy

Thanks, the error message helps us get started! From this, we can inspect the code in PsychoPy itself (backend_sounddevice.py”, line 452) and sure enough, we can see that the PsychoPy code here is assuming the sound to be mono or stereo, so we will certainly need to update this to support more flexible sounds specs. As a starter, you could change this: self.sndArr.shape = [len(thisArray), 2] to this: self.sndArr.shape = [len(thisArray), self.channels] and …

Playing quatrophonic sound (4.0 surround-sound) in psychopy

I finally got it to work (with yours and a colleague’s help). Given that the sounddevice library you recommended was able to detect instances of the device with 4-channel outputs, I used that same library to specify and play the 4-channel device as follows: import sounddevice as sd import soundfile as sf data, fs = sf.read(filename, dtype='float32') sd.play(data, fs, device=10) status = sd.wait() The PsychoPy sound library also calls the same sounddevice library so I assume this can also b…