There is a sound file error

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MacOS Catalina 10.15.2
PsychoPy3

Running: /Users/giuliasfriso/Desktop/priming/experimentdemo_lastrun.py

2020-03-13 23:18:39.345 python[94708:1813681] ApplePersistenceIgnoreState: Existing state will not be touched. New state will be written to (null)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/Users/giuliasfriso/Desktop/priming/experimentdemo_lastrun.py”, line 124, in
sound_1.setSound(frasi, secs=5, hamming=True)
File “/Applications/PsychoPy3.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/psychopy/sound/backend_ptb.py”, line 413, in setSound
_SoundBase.setSound(self, value, secs, octave, hamming, log)
File “/Applications/PsychoPy3.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/psychopy/sound/_base.py”, line 193, in setSound
raise ValueError(msg + value)
ValueError: setSound: could not find a sound file named boat sail under bridge.WAV

Experiment ended.

Hi everybody,

I’m trying to make a priming experiment with sounds and images for my dissertation.
I created an excel file with all the items and then in the builder I created a new trial inserting the sound and image stimuli and then a loop browsing the excel file.

After running the experiment, PsychoPy constantly tell me that it cannot find a sound file.

Can anyone help me?

[I beg you pardon for my English, but I’m not English :smiley:]

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Can you please share a screenshot of your excel file and what you wrote inside the sound and image component, please?

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Yes, of course!

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Thank you!

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Are all those files in the same file as the whole experiment? or are they within another file? -if so, you would need an slash before the name file (e.g., Audio/bounce_pass.WAV). Also, I would save the audios with no spaces, and check that the file types are correctly written, and in the right image/audio component, just in case.

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OK! I’ll try!
thank you for the help!
I’ll let you know!

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OK! Now it works! thanks a lot!

I have another issue. I have to record the response in my experiment, hence I need to use the microphone. So I add the microphone response to the routine but Psychopy tell me that there’s another error. Can you help me? Because I don’t know if I have to make a folder for the recording or anything else. This is the feedback:

Welcome to PsychoPy3!
v2020.1.1
2793.6452 WARNING IPython failed as shell, using pyshell (IPython v0.12 can fail on wx)
3036.9535 INFO Loaded monitor calibration from [‘2020_03_04 13:00’]
Generating PsychoPy script…

Running: /Users/giuliasfriso/Desktop/pyschopy/experiment_lastrun.py

2020-03-15 16:38:32.613 python[17373:194609] ApplePersistenceIgnoreState: Existing state will not be touched. New state will be written to (null)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/Applications/PsychoPy3.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/psychopy/sound/backend_pyo.py”, line 25, in
import pyo
File “pyo/init.pyc”, line 28, in
File “pyo/lib/analysis.pyc”, line 32, in
File “pyo/lib/_core.pyc”, line 58, in
File “pyo/_pyo.pyc”, line 14, in
File “pyo/_pyo.pyc”, line 10, in __load
File “imp.pyc”, line 342, in load_dynamic
ImportError: dlopen(/Applications/PsychoPy3.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/lib-dynload/pyo/_pyo.so, 2): Library not loaded: @loader_path/libportaudio.2.dylib
Referenced from: /Applications/PsychoPy3.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/lib-dynload/pyo/_pyo.so
Reason: image not found

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/Users/giuliasfriso/Desktop/pyschopy/experiment_lastrun.py”, line 18, in
from psychopy import sound, gui, visual, core, data, event, logging, clock, microphone
File “/Applications/PsychoPy3.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/psychopy/microphone.py”, line 45, in
from psychopy.sound import backend_pyo
File “/Applications/PsychoPy3.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/psychopy/sound/backend_pyo.py”, line 29, in
raise exceptions.DependencyError(repr(err))
psychopy.exceptions.DependencyError: ImportError(‘dlopen(/Applications/PsychoPy3.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/lib-dynload/pyo/_pyo.so, 2): Library not loaded: @loader_path/libportaudio.2.dylib\n Referenced from: /Applications/PsychoPy3.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python3.6/lib-dynload/pyo/_pyo.so\n Reason: image not found’,)

Experiment ended.

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Sorry, I have never used the microphone component. You should check in the forum for solutions or open a new topic. Also, if this thread is solved, mark it as “solution” so it can be closed.

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hello，I try to write the name like "audio/sound”。but it still show that can not found this file.