304594 - thunderbird doesn't play wav sounds for incoming mails at all

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 194632

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Michael]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; de-de) AppleWebKit/312.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/312
Build Identifier: 1.0.6

thunderbird seems not to play any wav sounds when you change the settings in preferences to "custom 
.wav sounds".
A lot of people have complained about that for years in the support forum but i couldn´t find a bug 
report according to that.
It is realy annoying that this doesn´t work at all. That shouldn´t be such a big problem to solve that as 
all other simple app´s are able to play custom sounds, and of course mp3 sounds.
I have found a report in the support forum for that in 2003 but nothing has happened since than.
Is it not possible to solve this little but for user important thing?!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. try to change the settings in "preferences" from System New Mail Sound" to "custom .wav file"
2. for the next incoming mail the system sound will alert instead of the wav file which doesn´t work in 
the preview either
3.

Actual Results:  
it plays the system alert "beep"

Expected Results:  
it should play the .wav file

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of bug 289286 -> bug 194632?

Comment 2

[Hiro]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 194632 ***