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Skype notifications are muted

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I can hear skype calls just fine, but notifications seem to be muted. I've gone into my sound settings and whenever a notification appears, a "Skype" appears under "Applications," and it is muted. Pressing "mute" doesn't do anything, and whenever I slide the volume up, it snaps back to 0%.

I don't seen anything that could be causing it in my .Skype folder. Any ideas?
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answered 1 Year ago assionortly · Accepted Answer

In the Skype options->Notifications, did you make sure the checkbox was checked for "Play sound file:"?

If so, did you try highlighting the notification that doesn't work, and checking "Enable Event", and then using the "Test Event" button? If the sound does not play, try going to the directory specified for the file (/usr/share/skype/sounds by default) and making sure you can play the sound.

If not, then you may be missing a codec or something, and you can concentrate on getting that filetype to work (try other similar files).

Edit
added one more step... I played around with my setup, using the Skype "Test Event" button with the sound settings open. I found that I could quickly check the mute checkbox in the applications section when it appeared - I used the "Call Connecting" event; strangely enough, many of the events never appeared in this window. The seem to be controlled by the "Alert Volume" in the "Sound Effects" tab of this same settings dialog. I remember having problems at first when this volume control slider was too low, and many Skype sounds didn't work. Are all the sounds muted in the "Test Event" page?