Still stuck on playing a sound with a player

[Graham Samuel]

Hi Jacque - thanks for your continued efforts to help. 

When I do the 'play', I get "no data in AudioClip". This is after I rewrote the code to use a separate invisible stack for the players, as you suggested. The player itself definitely exists.

The script of the card I want to be showing while the sound plays just says:

 on openCard
     set the playrate of player "playPoem" of cd 1 of stack "sounds" to 1 
     play "playPoem" of cd 1 of stack "Sounds" -- this just carries on until the player gets a 'playstopped' message
     put the result
 end openCard

The player "playPoem" is newly attached to an MP3 file, which I have now moved to be next to the LC app in the 'Applications' folder, just for a change. Actually I get the same result even if I set the filename of each player at runtime.

I get the feeling I am disobeying some secret rules. Jacque, when you use a separate stack for sounds, how do you initiate the sounds?

TIA and sorry to take up your time.

Graham

On 17 Dec 2013, at 07:05, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> On 12/16/13 4:50 PM, Graham Samuel wrote:
>> Just picking up one point in your mail, I **do** use the
>> player's property inspector to select the file from disk once and for
>> all - since in my case each of the two players plays just one file,
>> it's the simplest way. But somehow the duration of one of the two
>> files is zero, even though they were both created (as MP3s) by the
>> same app (Fission) by conversion from existing AIFF files, and
>> they've both been attached to their respective players in exactly the
>> same way, and both the original files can be played outside LC
>> without problems.
> 
> That's truly bizarre, I haven't a clue. Do you get anything in the result when it fails?
> 
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