Why do some of us have to play gestures twice to be able to hear them?

[Pol McAndrews]

This has been an ongoing issue lately and at first I thought it was just me, but several of my friends seem to be having the same issue. We have to play the gestures twice to be able to hear them. Does anyone know of any issue like that? We have cleared cache, rebooted, restarted the sim and nothing seems to work.

[Rolig Loon]

This is by now a well-recognized bug.  It showed up in late winter, but is still unresolved.  See the JIRA >>> Sounds aren't played at first attempt .  If you are playing a non-looping sound, you can get around the problem by pre-loading the sound file for each new av that enters the area, but that's a real nuisance, especially if the sound is not associated with a fixed spot -- as is the case if you are playing a gesture with a sound in it.  If you are playing a looping sound, all you can do is stop it and restart it periodically.

[Baloo Uriza]

Not really a bug, but more of a factor with asset delivery.  The sound plays and finishes before it's loaded in your viewer.  Folks with faster connections will hear it twice.