I have seen this same behavior on Ubuntu 8.10. I searched Pidgin's bug tracker and have found that this issue has also been reported there: http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/7567
** Changed in: pidgin (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed ** Also affects: pidgin via http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/7567 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- Pidgin stops playing sounds after a while https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/298040 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs