Trillian No Sound - Fixed!

Trillian is a popular alternative to running MSN, ICQ, Yahoo, and AOL messenger programs on Windows.

I use the 3.1 basic client partly because I like the interface and partly because it uses a LOT less resources than running all those messenger programs!

However I've found that, from time to time, Trillian turns off sounds and refuses to let me turn them back on again! I don't like it silent so I Googled for help on this but the only solution I could find was to completely uninstall Trillian and re-install it! Not a very satisfactory solution. Oddly almost no-one reports this problem, out of the huge numbers of happy Trillian users, so it is some special circumstance that tickles this bug.

So when it happened again on a new laptop I was working on then I decided enough was enough and started wading thru the options. 

First check was to see if I could turn sounds back on under Trillian Prefernces, Notification Sounds, Play Sounds, or by right clicking on the little Trillian icon by the clock (bottom right of the screen) and selecting Options, Play Sounds. When I checked after setting sounds to on I found it hadn't worked, sounds were still turned off. Both the Play Sounds were unticked and no sounds came when starting Trillian or when sending and receiving messages.

After some testing I found that if you go to Trillian Preferences, select Away Mode, look in the "When I'm Away..." section and make sure that "Mute Trillian Sounds" is unchecked.

Now when you turn sounds back on it works!

Trillian can be found at http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/downloads/