record sound using the plug-ins

moreno · September 2016

Hi there,

thanks already to listen I have been trying to record voice responses in OpenSesame using the plugins (sound_start|stop_recording), but I did not have much luck unfortunately. In particular, the microphone works, and it seems that a default.wav file is created. However, 1) there is nothing in this file and it lasts just a second when it should be much longer, 2) when I try to look at the .py script to modify (for example) the name of the file (such that it takes the name of trial as argument), the script is empty. Moreover, if I try to change the setting in the control view (e.g., from wav to mp3) the following message is sent:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\OpenSesame\share\opensesame_plugins\sound_start_recording\sound_start_recording.py", line 228, in apply_edit_changes
    if not qtplugin.qtplugin.apply_edit_changes(self, False) or self.lock:
TypeError: apply_edit_changes() takes exactly 1 argument (2 given)

Moreover, when I generate the script of the experiment, the only two lines where

do you have a suggestion on how should I go about it? I am on a Windows 10 machine, last version of OpenSesame, and I got everything properly installed (at least that's what I believe )
I am attaching here the general script of my experiment so that you can have a look, and perhaps spot the issue.

thank you immensely for the time and effort of keeping up such a useful open software!

moreno · September 2016

... forgot to complete a sentence

Moreover, when I generate the script of the experiment, the only two lines talking about sound where:

define sound_start_recording sound_start_recording

define sound_stop_recording sound_stop_recording

sorry and thanks again!

sebastiaan · October 2016

You're not doing anything wrong. The plugins simply haven't been updated for a long time, and a change in recent versions of OpenSesame has broken them. That's not supposed to happen, and I just committed a fix, so it should be resolved in future versions of OpenSesame (>= 3.1.3a6). (This doesn't mean that the plugins are updated; just that they work again, outdated as they are.)

For now, you could either:

Downgrade to an older version of OpenSesame (I'm not sure when the issue crept in, but you could first try 3.0 and then 2.9); or
Edit C:\Program Files (x86)\OpenSesame\share\opensesame_plugins\sound_start_recording\sound_start_recording.py and change line 228 to:

if not qtplugin.qtplugin.apply_edit_changes(self) or self.lock:

That is, you remove the False argument.

Does that help?

Cheers,
Sebastiaan

PS. Ping @Daniel

moreno · October 2016

Dear Sebastiaan,

thanks for the suggestion. I just tried and it does work! I am on OpenSesame 3.0.7. It would be nice to get it fixed also in the last version of OpenSesame, as it is much easier to handle loop (i.e., using directly .csv files) with it. But, for now, I will live with that I have another question ... but I'll post it soon under a proper subject name.

thanks again,

Moreno

Daniel · October 2016

Got it, I created an issue at https://github.com/dschreij/opensesame_soundrecorder_plugins/issues/8 to remind myself to fix this soon.
And yes, the sound recorder plugins are long overdue for an update.

moreno · October 2016

ah ok, just saw this now. So I guess no update yet for the latest release of OpenSesame. Keeping an eye here!

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