Windows Alert Sound works, my custom alert sound does not

AFL Programming
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Hi, I have been using some Sound Alerts in my Explorations. They work fine when I use the windows10 built-in alert, but when I try to use my own custom alert they do not work, no sound at all

These are both alerts, the alert that does work fine (windows-Alarm01) and the second is my own custom alert (1T.wav):

AlertIf ( Filter , "SOUND C:\\Windows\\Media\\Alarm01.wav", "1_Canal", type = 0, flags = 1 , lookback = 1 ) ;

AlertIf ( Filter , "SOUND C:\\Windows\\Media\\1T.wav", "1_Canal", type = 0, flags = 1 , lookback = 1 ) ;

Here I share both wav archives for if anyone would like to check why is failing. Both are in the proper media folder in my computer.

alarm wav files

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does it work when you put your file outside C:\Windows\Media directory ?

my guess is that security attributes of your file are protecting it from being accessed

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good idea, but it still does not work,

thanks for the try

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Your custom file is not a WAV file. WAV are uncompressed lossless audio files.

But your file seems to be just just a MP3 audio file where you apparently just changed file extension to WAV. That does not make it WAV file.

See codec info of your file.
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But as by the manual it has to be actual WAV.
As this sound file example which works and is not Windows Media directory one.
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I have not tried Alerif with other audio file types but I doubt other audio file types are supported since manual is specific about WAV with a reason. So your best chance is... get actual WAV files.

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Thank you fxshrat . Good observation.