After update I can't hear audio media

Hi everybody,

I have a problem after updating to the latest version of SL 1.17. I can't hear the audio media that plays anywhere. Not in my house, in my friends house or anywhere. I have a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS and the OS is Win XP SP2. Does anyone know ssomething about this?
Thanks.
Best wishes.

If you're referring to the parcel music, it's possible that the station is participating in today's day of silence...

I just re-installed SL the other day after being absent for a long time. I am having the same problem. And it's not just SL - when the program is running, my sound card is completely useless. Try opening another program (like windows media player) while SL is running and see if you get any audio.

And I have almost the same sound card as you. Perhaps LL never bothered to test compatibility with Creative soundcards?

Leah I did some searching last night and found the fix. There are many other people who have had this problem with an Audigy card, and there will be many more (the fix was buried in the tech forums).

Open up your Creative Audio Console and find the effects tab (has options for environmental FX, karaoke, etc.). Chances are there is some effect already highlighted, like Advanced EQ. Remove ALL effects and boot up the program - if your problem was the same as mine, all your system sounds should begin working.

I don't have a creative soundboard, although I can hear all sounds in the standard client, the voice 'feature' seems to lock out all media streams, even though voice doesnt seem to work in the FirstLook client. Lets hope by 2008 they have a working solution. <sarcasm on>