No Sound

[Darren Overby]

Hi Everyone, 

I'm new to APRS.fi so perhaps I'm missing something.   When I go to Preferences > Sound I have enabled "Sound Effects" and set "Tracking target updated" to "Tock - High".  If I understand this functionality correctly when my tracked target sends a beacon I would expect APRS.fi to make some sort of sound.  However, I'm not hearing anything.  I have also tried "Tock - Low".   Any help would be appreciated.  

Thanks. 

Darren 

[Heikki Hannikainen]

Hi,

The sound functionality was implemented using a Flash plugin. This was in
2008, well before HTML5 audio came along (around 2011-2014).

Flash has since then been deprecated, and it's not running at all on most
web browsers. Which is great: Flash had an awful lot of security issues.
The (relatively minor) downside is that it broke audio playback in a few
places.

I'll need to work a bit and reimplement the sound effects using HTML5
audio. It'll be much nicer overall than the flash thing. More lightweight,
standards-compliant and all that.

- Hessu

[Darren Overby]

Hi Hessu, 

Thanks for letting me know I'm not crazy or doing something wrong.   Let me know when you get this working again.  

Thanks. 

Darren 

[Charlie Kunz]

Has sound been reimplemented yet? It would be great to have.

Thanks

Charlie Kunz