Pidgin doesn't play sounds

Reasons · 2008-03-12 16:25:22

With pidgin I can play a sound in the preferences if I click test but during a conversation I get nothing. What could cause that?

staticvoid · 2008-03-12 16:28:09

right click on the taskbar icon and check if its muted

Reasons · 2008-03-12 16:30:02

Nope. I wish that was it though.

zyghom · 2008-03-12 16:34:00

which player do you use ?
I'm using mplayer

Reasons · 2008-03-12 18:25:09

I use mplayer but why would that matter?

zyghom · 2008-03-12 18:31:38

Reasons wrote:

I use mplayer but why would that matter?

mixing ?

atasmrk · 2008-03-12 19:05:13

I had this problem too. Solved it with "aplay %s" in sound comand.

Reasons · 2008-03-12 20:15:26

I just tried that, test still works but nothing in the conversations. It just worked for starting a conversation, but nothing more.

Last edited by Reasons (2008-03-12 20:28:28)

Reasons · 2008-03-13 14:57:11

I was reading around and I guess it uses gstreamer to play it's sounds now, but I already installed gstreamer-plugins. Would it have missed one?

Reasons · 2008-03-19 00:40:46

I just ran it in a terminal, it does not even say a sound is being played. However, if I were to type something, close the window, and that person say something opening a new window it plays a sound and the terminal says so.

Reasons · 2008-03-19 01:01:42

Further study shows that it'll play sounds if the window does not have focus.

aRcHaTe · 2008-03-19 03:34:11

try deleting .purple in ur home and reconfigure...

Reasons · 2008-03-20 02:42:01

Now don't all yell at me at once, there is appearently a setting that says "sounds when conversation has focus" that I needed to check. I swear that wasn't there last time I used pidgin.

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#1 2008-03-12 16:25:22

Pidgin doesn't play sounds

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