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Why can't I preview sounds anymore???

Can you be more specific, I might be able to help because this I think happened to me but I need a better idea of your problem.

I have no idea how to attach the screenshot here.
But usually at the left-hand side of a sound file, there would be a soundwave preview. It's blank now for some reason.
There's no way of previewing the sound before downloading it - I thought it was some bug that would go away soon. But it's been like that for almost two weeks now.

Yes I am pretty sure I know what your talking about and I think this is exactly what happened to me, like where the it would show a picture of the waves of each sound, is that what is gone. If so that has happened to me, actually in like the last maybe three weeks(Maybe longer) but I also brought that up and it eventually was fixed pretty soon after I brought up the topic. So either you will have to wait or see if a admin can help(I am not a admin, sorry). I will see if I can maybe get a friend of mind/admin to check this out and see if he can help, he helped me.

Yes! You're right!
I hope it will be fixed soon
Being relying on 'freesound'; feeling bummed about this..

Thanks for helping out

No problem, I will ask "Headphaze" to check this out so for now sit tight.

Hello!

Don't panic, this has happened before to some users. It's not a problem with Freesound, but most likely something on your end, considering that no one else has reported this issue at this time.

I assume the preview interface is now appearing blank for you. It would help greatly if you could post some screenshots. To do this on a PC press the "printscreen" button on the keyboard, or use the accessory called "snipper" that should be a standard feature in windows vista and beyond. And, for mac holding shift + cmd and pressing 4 (for a selection) and 3 (for the whole screen). Then you can upload free of charge to imgur.com or tinypic.com etc. Then post the link here for us to see.

Anyway, before we can know what is going on here, you need to tell us the following:

Which browser are you using? (e.g. Firefox / Chrome etc) have you tried opening freesound on a different web browser to see if the issue persists?

Do you have any flash blocking extensions in your browser that restrict the viewing or interaction with flash elements on a page? These will be add-ons that you would normally download and install manually within the browser itself.

Have you tried opening your browser in 'safe mode' (firefox) or 'incognito' (chrome), where the app loads without add ons/cookies?

Its not a black and white issue, and if you can answer the above question, we will have a better chance of sorting out the problem.

Regards,
Sam

Preview needs javascript. Could be your js is disabled, broken or out of date. Symptoms will be white space where previews should show if js disabled, or maybe just won't respond to mouse clicks if js is broken.

Wibby.

Thanks for the info, that will help me out if that happens to me again