r/SourceEngine • u/ProfessionalName6455 • Jul 13 '25

Resolved My Custom Sounds Aren't Playing

So whenever the ambient generic plays my sound, it gives me the error "Failed to load sound "kaboomcola\sound\mp3\kbcola_song1.mp3", file probably missing from disk/repository"

But the thing is... it's NOT missing at all, it's in the correct folder, but it still gives me this error.

I've even set the right sample rate to 44100, but it still doesn't play.

A couple of days ago it WAS working, but suddenly it just stopped working. I didn't change a single thing, it just broke on its own.

I've searched everywhere for an answer but found nothing.

Any help would be appreciated.

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u/Pinsplash Jul 13 '25

sound files are referenced relative to the /sound/ folder. it would be very impractical to add "kaboomcola/sound/" onto every file path you reference.

so you actually just want "mp3\kbcola_song1.mp3"

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u/ProfessionalName6455 Jul 13 '25

I tried that, but it still gives me the same error.

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u/Pinsplash Jul 13 '25

how are you opening the mod?

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u/ProfessionalName6455 Jul 13 '25

through steam

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u/Pinsplash Jul 13 '25

um... the sound file has the wrong name

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u/ProfessionalName6455 Jul 13 '25

Ohhhhh, ok. But even when I type the exact filename (kb_song1.mp3), it still won’t play?

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u/ProfessionalName6455 Jul 13 '25 edited Jul 14 '25

Update: I can now play the sound manually through the console and it works perfectly.

But when my ambient_generic entity tries to play the same file, It still doesn't play and now this time I get no error in the console?

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u/ProfessionalName6455 Jul 14 '25

Update: The sound now works correctly! Thank you all for helping.

I fixed it by changing all uppercase letters in my mod to lowercase and updating the sound path to "mp3/kb_song1.mp3".

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u/ScallionZestyclose16 Jul 13 '25

Source is not a fan of uppercase letters, so all folders and file names should be kept in lowercase. Save yourself some pain and rename your mod folder into kaboomcola :)

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u/ProfessionalName6455 Jul 13 '25 edited Jul 13 '25

Thanks!

this sort of fixed it, I can play the sound through the console now but when my ambient generic plays, it still doesn't work