Inserting music in open sesame

Dougie

Hi,

I'm doing a wordspan experiment for OU and in one trial there should be no distraction and in the other trial there should be music playing as a distraction.In my study, participants will take part in both trials (that is one with music and one without music) so I'm trying to write it into my experiment as such. I'm not sure whereabouts this needs to go in and how?

I've got the song, converted it to .wav and included it on the OS file pool. I've tried including it with the SAMPLER tab but while it plays, the experiment stops. How do I go about inserting it into the experiment and how do I make sure it only plays during a certain trial and test.

I'm new to Open Sesame and completely at a loss as to how to do this. Your help would be very much appreciated.

Dougie

Knante

Hi Dougie,

First of all, have you seen the tutorials? The first one explains how to implement sound files and how to play these based on certain conditions (like yours).

• http://osdoc.cogsci.nl/3.1/tutorials/beginner/

When you say that the experiment stops when the sampler plays your audio file, does it also show you an error message? If so, please post it here as well, it is much more informative.

Best,
Laurent