Topic: Trouble with Audible Notification

[barnabas2008]

I am attempting to figure out why on my Vista running IE 7 or Firefox I can not get the audible notification to work.  When I use my other laptop with Windows XP Pro with IE 8 the notifications work just fine.  Is there something that needs to be set differently for Vista?  I do not have the application running locally, I am accessing through the internet.

Thank you for any assistance you may be able to provide.

[Eddybaur]

Run Firefox as admin is my best guss.

[barnabas2008]

Tried that and still not audible notification.

[Inspirer]

Ok, I don't have vista but will try to check somewhere.
Do you have media player installed?

Try to navigate to:
http://mibew.org/webim/sounds/new_message.wav
Does it work?

[barnabas2008]

Yes I have media player and that link does work.

[citrix34]

Same trouble for me.
all seems to be ok. i can play with a direct URL sounds.... but it doesn't work when a new chat is coming..
any idea ? where do you encode the play ? i may check perhaps...

ps: no trouble with rights on my server (755)

thx

[hippomg]

Same here... other people who are admin can't hear the alert. They hear a sound when each message is typed, but hear nothing when user initiates a chat...

[bofh]

FYI, in case one of the devs reads this thread, this package looks promising for cross-platform/browser sound support using flash:
http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/

If I get some time, I may look at hacking this in myself.

[squirrelist]

Works fine with Safari on Mac.

[barnabas2008]

It seems to be VISTA related.  Other OS's and most browsers seem to be working okay.