# Processing Sound Library Errors
**URL:** https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-sound-library-errors/27810
**Category:** Libraries
**Created:** [February 14, 2021, 3:02am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-sound-library-errors/27810 "2021-02-14T03:02:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@SNICKRS](https://discourse.processing.org/u/SNICKRS)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 3:02am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-sound-library-errors/27810/1 "2021-02-14T03:02:35Z")
Hello everyone, I was encountering some errors when using the processing sound library. The files load and play fine, but sometimes they just don’t play at all, and this happens usually 2-5 minutes after the program starts. I don’t know what is causing this nor how to fix it. Thanks in advance!
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### Author:  [@josephh](https://discourse.processing.org/u/josephh)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 2:49pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-sound-library-errors/27810/2 "2021-02-14T14:49:16Z")
Hi,
Can you provide more details to your question like :
- What OS are you running Processing on?
- Which version of Processing, and the Sound library?
- How are you playing those sounds?
- What kind of sound files? (format, duration, source…)
Thanks! 🙂
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### Author:  [@SNICKRS](https://discourse.processing.org/u/SNICKRS)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 5:17pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-sound-library-errors/27810/3 "2021-02-14T17:17:48Z")
Hello, to anwser your questions, I am running the program on a windows 10 os, Processing 3, the processing sound library (`import processing.sound.*`), I am controlling the playing of these sounds using booleans in order to make them play only once per event, and they are .wav files, 1 second each because they are sound effects.
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### Author:  [@josephh](https://discourse.processing.org/u/josephh)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2021, 10:35pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-sound-library-errors/27810/4 "2021-02-14T22:35:55Z")
Ok thanks, can you try to give a code example where it will certainly crash? Because otherwise it’s difficult to test or see where’s the error.
Also what is the file weight of those sounds?
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### Author:  [@SNICKRS](https://discourse.processing.org/u/SNICKRS)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2021, 11:34pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/processing-sound-library-errors/27810/5 "2021-02-15T23:34:59Z")
It’s not a case where the code crashes, but where the files don’t play. For example, it would play for the first 10 or so times, but then doesn’t play on the 11th.