All of my gestures have become silent

[Daemon Davidson]

Between Sunday and today, all of the gestures in my inventory have become broken, and all in the same way:

They will do chat and animation, but all of the sounds have disappeared.

When I select the drop down list, I get a short list of sounds, which hardly matters, because I can't select any of them.  No matter which I select, the "selected" sound goes back to -- None --

I use the LL standard viewer Release 6.4.3.542486 (64bit)

I bought a gesture on MP that came with sound, and it was immediately broken exactly the same way as all my others.

Edited May 27, 2020 by Daemon Davidson
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[Wulfie Reanimator]

Make sure you are on land that doesn't have avatar sounds disabled, or you are in the land group.

[Daemon Davidson]

Thanks for the suggestions @Wulfie Reanimator I will definitely look into that.

 

Added data point:  I am informed by people near me that they can hear my gesture sounds, even though I cannot.

[Jet Dallas]

Check under preferences that you have not disabled hearing sounds from gestures (which is how I always have it set as it is infuriating as hell to hear all those noises).

Edited May 27, 2020 by Jet Dallas

[Daemon Davidson]

@Wulfie Reanimator

I investigated following your suggestion: the problem persists on every parcel, regardless of my group rights, which run the gamut from Estate Manager to mere visitor without even rez rights.

 

@Jet Dallas

I'm attaching a screenshot of my sound settings.

 

To anyone who is following this thread:

One of my friends in-world said they had run into something like this once before, and it came down to a migration between asset servers, and the problem resolved when they relogged after an overnight wait.

I have logged off and back on half a dozen times in the days since I started this thread, yet the problem persists.

 

 

[Theresa Tennyson]

On 5/26/2020 at 7:47 PM, Daemon Davidson said:

Between Sunday and today, all of the gestures in my inventory have become broken, and all in the same way:

They will do chat and animation, but all of the sounds have disappeared.

When I select the drop down list, I get a short list of sounds, which hardly matters, because I can't select any of them.  No matter which I select, the "selected" sound goes back to -- None --

I use the LL standard viewer Release 6.4.3.542486 (64bit)

I bought a gesture on MP that came with sound, and it was immediately broken exactly the same way as all my others.

 

You're actually using a "release candidate" viewer that has an updated version of the audio software the viewer uses. You should report this as a bug with that viewer version.

Theresa Tennyson sighs, as her better angel made her suggest doing something to fix a bug she'd just as soon see remain un-fixed, to be honest.

[animats]

Yes, definitely report audio bugs now, since a new directional audio package has been installed. There seems to be a push from LL to fix things that large performances would need. Hence the "long range chat" proposal. So a bug report here might actually result in action.

[Daemon Davidson]

@Theresa Tennyson  @animats  and anyone else still paying attention.

It was definitely a RC version problem.  I'm now on Second Life Release 6.4.2.541639 (64bit) and my gestures were instantly restored.

If I feel especially generous time-wise to LL, I might re-install the problematic RC in a separate directory, then file a bug report from there.

Or maybe I'll just enjoy making annoying noises at gatherings 😉

In seriousness, thank you all for your considered replies and the time and effort you've devoted to help me resolve this.

In actuality, I definitely will re-install the RC and file a bug report.  But for now, I've unchecked that pesky box in Preferences that said I will accept RCs