Sound Issue

[smurf]

Okay this one is driving me nuts. I've been scourging the internet for two days for an answer but found nothing like my problem so I decided enough's enough; I need to ask for help.
Here's my problem:
When I set up the sound effects I want while scrolling through the list of Mame games, I have no problem. The music and sound effects work for Mame as long as it's the only layout I'm using. Now that I'm trying to set up different emulators with unique layouts for each one, I understand that I must have "use sounds from layout" and "use background music from layout" checked in order to have different sounds per layout. When those are unchecked the sound is fine but it's the same sounds for all the layouts. When I have it checked, however, the only noise I hear while scrolling through the lists is the "Windows XP Ding" sound effect. Why? In MaLaLayout>Layout>Sounds; I have all the sounds configured and the directories set correctly. I'm not sure why I'm hearing the "Ding" instead of the sound effects.
This is hard to explain so I hope someone can point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance.

[loadman]

Have you specified the sounds for each layout using MaLaLayout ?

[smurf]

Thanks for the quick response.
Yup I did that. I have MaLaLayout open right now and the correct sounds play when I click on the box with the triangle to test it.

[loadman]

hmmm At work right now.

I guess you just gotta make sure that the wav files are in the mala folder (or the subfolder of the layout.

The logs in Debug mode may tell you where MaLa is looking for the sounds.

I can't check if something is busted right now as i am at work.

[smurf]

Alright I've checked and the wavs are (and were) in the MaLa folder.
I doubt anything is busted with the program itself but maybe you'll be able to understand what's going on once you get out of work and have time to think.
I might go ahead and try taking a video of what I see on my screen if it would help.

[loadman]

Alright I've checked and the wavs are (and were) in the MaLa folder.
I doubt anything is busted with the program itself but maybe you'll be able to understand what's going on once you get out of work and have time to think.
I might go ahead and try taking a video of what I see on my screen if it would help.

Nah, Don't bother.

I will check

[smurf]

Nah, Don't bother.

I will check

Alright sounds good.

I've done some more tinkering with it today with no luck. The layouts have all the sounds I want configured just as I thought but I'm still getting the "Windows XP Ding" sound in MaLa itself.

[loadman]

Nah, Don't bother.

I will check

Alright sounds good.

I've done some more tinkering with it today with no luck. The layouts have all the sounds I want configured just as I thought but I'm still getting the "Windows XP Ding" sound in MaLa itself.

I'm sure it's something simple.

Either a simple bug or simple configuration error.

Looks like I won't have time to look at this for a few days     Hang in there   

[smurf]

Well I'm not sure how or why, but it's working. I haven't changed a thing but upon checking again this morning I found all the sounds somehow working. Odd.
Thanks for the help regardless.

[loadman]

Well I'm not sure how or why, but it's working. I haven't changed a thing but upon checking again this morning I found all the sounds somehow working. Odd.
Thanks for the help regardless.

MaLa restarted after the sounds were moved to the right directory?  Otherwise I can't explain it