[科技苑]小龙虾住稻田 20180322

Is there any workaround for this?

Same problem in jaunty! Any solution yet?

Can some of the developers comment on the possibility of getting this fixed. I will also post a png file with the error notification that pops up the first time you receive a mail after you activated in preferences the sound notification.

Can some of the developers comment on the possibility of getting this fixed. I will also post a png file with the error notification that pops up the first time you receive a mail after you activated in preferences the sound notification.

Same problem using Thunderbird 3.1.7 on maverick

Same problem w/ Thunderbird 3.1.7 on maverick

Same problem with Thunderbird 3.1.8 on maverick

Same problem with Thunderbird 3.1.10 and Ubuntu 11.04.
Earlier I used EasyPeasy and there it was working.
Any

same problem in Thundbird 5.0 on Natty

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Confirmed in oneiric

Confirmed in Trusty

My contribution
Two machines both Trusty 64bit
In one: play sound works: one play sound doesn't
In both: default sound works.

For me;
A fix on the non-performing machine mentioned on he previous post.
 Take the .wav file that I had chosen (which did not play) and
Using "OggConvert" convert it into an .ogg file.
OggConvert is a GUI application from the repository that 's pretty well intuitive.(you might have to install it)
 Go to thunderbird /edit/preferences/general and choose the newly created .ogg file from where you saved it.
Worked for me. Although I don't know which player did the job.
Now chosen .OGG sound file plays.
Just tried it on a whim and success,,,,,,,,,,,, if it lasts.

Problem: I just discovered that thunderbird 52.4.0 (64bit) on Ubuntu Xenial can't play a wav file for new mail. The default new mail sound can be play though.

Solution: I installed "Sound Converter" from Ubuntu Software and used it to covert my .wav file to .ogg format (mentioned by @doxland) and tried it on Thunderbird. It works... :) Thanks @doxland for sharing about .ogg format. I did not know such a sound format had existed.

Hope the Thunderbird team could make this fix seamless or at least inform user to use only .ogg format sound file in Thunderbird.