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Using The bat V 5.0.12/ Windows 7 64Bit

Trying to set up the sound notification for new messages.
I can map the sound to the Windows Media folder and if I do a test on the sound it plays. It does not play when a message arrives.

Doing a search on the forums, and found that the sound should be in the Sounds folder in The Bat folder.
No such folder, so I have created a folder (Sounds) in The Bat folder and tried that but still no luck.

Is there something I am doing wrong, or does the sound notification not work.
 
 
 
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Tony Mallen wrote:
the sound should be in the Sounds folder in The Bat folder.
That's not really true - my sound file is mapped to "C:\Windows\Media\" and it plays fine.

Maybe, you need to re-check the sound file extension (mine is .WAV)


cheers,
(^ _^)
Battie

Windows Se7en Ultimate (SP-1)  |  The Bat! Pro 5.0.12.2 (Beta)
 
 
 
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Battie wrote:
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Tony Mallen wrote:

the sound should be in the Sounds folder in The Bat folder.

That's not really true - my sound file is mapped to " C:\Windows\Media\ " and it plays fine.



Maybe, you need to re-check the sound file extension (mine is .WAV)


well I have remapped it to C:\Windows\Media\tada.wav

Again doing the test , I can hear the sound.

Still when new mail comes in , there is nothing but silence.

This is using Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit SP1/The Bat 5.0.12 or earlier versions
 
 
 
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This was actually fixed in v5.0.12.
I think this will work for you too, if you'll just do a clean install of v5.0.12.
 
 
 
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Tony Mallen wrote:
well I have remapped it to C:\Windows\Media\tada.wav



Again doing the test , I can hear the sound.



Still when new mail comes in , there is nothing but silence.
Under the option where you re-mapped your sound file, there's another option - 'Allow sound only within time interval.' Is there any time restriction visible - ideally, the entry therein should read as follows:-

00:00-24:00


cheers,
(^ _^)
Battie

Windows Se7en Ultimate (SP-1)  |  The Bat! Pro 5.0.12.3 (Beta)
 
 
 
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Thanks Battie & Tomaso, clean install worked, cannot understand why, but hey it works :)
 
 
 
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Glad you got that working - full credit goes to Tomaso :)


cheers,
(^ _^)
Battie

Windows Se7en Ultimate (SP-1)  |  The Bat! Professional Edition 5.0.12.2 (Beta)  |  MailWasher Pro 2011
 
 
 
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I have the same problem - sound for incoming messages (for 4 accounts) worked in old version V1.62 flawless.
Since V4 (and now V5.0.12) I mostly hear no sound for incoming messages.
Path and sound-files are OK (testing is OK too).

Even tried the trick with creating a "sounds" folder for the sound files.

Still waiting for a fix...
Uwe

Edit: Windows XP SP3
Edited: Uwe Stoecks - 07 June 2011 11:26:01
 
 
 
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Uwe Stoecks wrote:
I have the same problem - sound for incoming messages (for 4 accounts) worked in old version V1.62 flawless.

Since V4 [..]

Sounds in v4 work fine on XP3.

The only problem I have found with sounds and v4 is if you have a lot of sub-filtering. You cannot access the message that triggered the sound event until TB! has finished processing the whole set of filters making TB! appear to hang.
Edited: Simon - 07 June 2011 14:09:08
 
 
 
#10
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there is no problem with sound for v4 and v5 in Windows XP SP2 and win7 ultimate for me.  :D
 
 
 
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I registered here just to post the fix. I hope someone can benefit from it. : )

Sounds would not play for me either. Windows Ultimate x64. I tried everything people suggested but everything was fruthless.

So without further ado,



Go to Account ---> Sorting Office/Filters

Sel ect "Incoming mail", right click and add "New Filter";

Name it as you like and in the Condition window choose ["Time of" - reception - is fr om ] and then put 00:00 to 23:00;

In the Actions windows click Add and then choose "Play a sound";

Choose the wav file that you want and click OK;


Sound should play now.

P.S. Although this works perfectly, it is a workaround. This is still a bug and developers should look in to it.
 
 
 
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no solution for me...

I try all these tricks but they don't work...

even deleting account and recreate it....

perhaps uninstalling absolutely all but I don't want  :(  :evil:
Edited: nico - 06 October 2012 21:36:43
 
 
 
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