Notification sounds have disappeared

Hi

Download macjanitor http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/5856/macjanitor

Once downloaded start program and click on the lock and then click on all tasks.

Once finished restart your mac.

Tony

Have you checked your system output? If not change it to default output. If this is not the problem, bring it to an apple store contact them etc

err... Then I can't help u sorry. : (

You could try this:

Apple menu>system preferences>sound>sound effects>tick the box that plays the alert sounds of the interface.

Also move the alert volume slider a little bit, this could bring sound back if the above didn't work.

(I have a Dutch interface, the correct translation might be different.)

Message was edited by: Jan Pieter Melchior

I am having the same difficulties, and nothing beyond rebooting has helped.

Just to make sure, you've tried all these settings and still no sound?:

iChat>preferences>alerts>play sound box has been ticked?
In the same window have you moved the volume slide bar and still no sound?
Have you tried to highlight a buddy in your list and from the top menu:
contacts(buddies)>info>alerts>play sound>select an event and the sound you would like to go with it?

If these have been tried and it still does not work:

Quit all open applications, open Quicktime from the dock.
Hold the command(Apple key) and press "K".
You'll see the A/V control panel for Quicktime, volume slide bar to the right.
Now select the iChat icon in the dock and with iChat open, click on the Quicktime icon in the dock once more.
You will see the A/V control panel with the volume slide bar now on the left (mute).
Hold the command(Apple) key and press "K", (the A/V window disappears), keep holding the command key and press "K" again, the window appears again and now the volume should be to the right (max).
Check if the sound effects are working now in iChat.

For me this somehow works for audio issues, (or maybe I have audio issues because of the toggling).
Don't ask me why, it works when there is no sound in quicktime movies in safari, or when you have no sound at all.

I have the exact same problem as Amanda and Brooke. I hear nothing with ichat or my trash can/finder sounds. The only thing that works is restarting the computer. How could there be no solution to this?

It is more that we have not found the answer as we can not replicate or have not had the same problem.

The suggestions we have made are the most likely fixes at present.

I would also recommend checking basic maintenance things such as Cron Scripts and Repairing Permissions



10:07 PM Thursday; October 4, 2007

Message was edited by: Ralph Johns (UK)

Amanda, I've been having the exact same problem as you—iChat sounds disappearing soon after startup while all other computer sounds work fine. I thought that Leopard would fix the issue, but it didn't. I don't have a solution, but I did find a little trick: if you go into iChat>Preferences>Alerts and select any item from the pop up sound list, it will play, and subsequently iChat will play all sounds normally. I don't know how long the sounds will stick around, but I thought this might be interesting to you just in case.

I just updated to OS 10.5 and now my iChat sound FX are gone too...have tried all the above but no luck. I imagine, or hope, that this is a bug Apple will be addressing in 10.5.1 or something...

-Nate

Same problem here. 10.4.10, MacBook.

So far I couldn't find any solution. The only "strange" thing I've installed recently was the XiphQT Component for QuickTime (support for .ogg). I'll remove it to see if it will help.