Ok problem solved I think *cross fingers*! A combination of careless flashcard formulation and a bug in mnemosyne error handling.
It seems that the original problem was just that in the path to the sound file, I had written a capital A character as a cyrillic capital A which looks exactly the same but clearly has a different encoding. The problem was just that mnemosyne couldn't find the file. Normally, when an audio file is in the answer section and mnemosyne can't find the file, it just hangs for a few seconds and then displays the answer as normal. However when the unfound file is in the question section, it seems that it just can't display the flashcard at all. What was happening I think with the unresponsiveness was that when the next question was with a file that couldn't be found, mnemosyne recognised the grading input of the previous file, moved on to the new file but then couldn't play it and hung. Initially at least it seemed it would automatically move on after a while to the next card, or maybe I had without realising it pressed the space bar and a grading button and actually answered and graded the "unplayable" card without seeing it! Because I added a large amount of flashcards at one time and all the rest were playing fine I didn't realise that I wasn't seeing that particular group of flashcards or that was anything special about their content. I guess this isn't going to be a common problem, but maybe an error alert when a audio file can't be found would be the best way to handle this. The card should definitely be displayed though. Presumably this audio file not found problem is serious enough to prevent the mnemosyne window from appearing at all when I started it up and a question from the unplayable bunch was first on the list to be reviewed. Not sure why starting it up from the terminal meant that it couldn't find the proper database, it seemed to be looking in the wrong place, but on second thoughts that is probably nothing to do with the original problem. Apologies for cluttering up inboxes. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en.
