alice-teacher help with importing sound

P Mac pmac at petaletal.org
Sun Sep 18 19:16:39 EDT 2011


It appears the error message is asking that you use a PCM audio file instead of an MP3 or Wav file. If you want to use the the latter two audio files, you will need a MP3 or WAV to PCM converter to change them over to a PCM audio file. You may find one here: http://www.cnet.com/?tag=hdr


> Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 15:42:21 -0700
> From: fletcher at csusm.edu
> To: alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: Re: alice-teacher help with importing sound
> 
> My work around has been to always just record the sound directly into
> Alice - rather than import it.
> Sound quality isn't as high as it might be - but it works as long as
> computer has microphone.
> 
> > Hello All,
> > I'm having a heck of a time trying to import sounds into Alice.  I am
> > following all the instructions I have read on websites but I keep getting
> > this error message:
> >
> >
> > Your sound file cannot be played in Alice.
> > Please find an audio editor to convert the file to one with a PCM
> > encoding.
> > See the tutorial on converting sound files at our Alice website.
> > Right click to clear the messages here.
> >
> >
> > I have tried importing a wav file as well as an mp3 but I keep getting
> > this
> > error message.  Anyone have any solutions?
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Robert Carullo
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