474190 - Using own alert sound will not work.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Danny]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.27.1
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.19 (20081209)

In the Preferences for alert sound, using your own sound file will not work. I have tried using different sound files, extensions, but they will not work. I have to choose Default System Sound.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to Preferences
2. Choose own sound in, "Use the following sound file"
3. Click play or wait for mail to arrive.
Actual Results:  
Nothing, I only got the Thunderbird icon bounce in my Dock.

Expected Results:  
Played the chosen Sound file for alert.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

did this work using prior version, and now stop?

Comment 2

[Danny]

This is the first time I've ever downloaded Thunderbird.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

can you reproduce when using ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/nightly/latest-comm-1.9.1/?

backup your profile before using

Comment 4

[Michael A. Pasek]

See also https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322140

Comment 5

[cantalou]

There are many bugs dealing with sound:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=543842
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=534033
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=535955
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=551460

Comment 6

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

RESOLVED INCOMPLETE due to lack of response to last question. If you feel this change was made in error, please respond to this bug with your reasons why.