# Difficulty getting sound to play on Psychopy all of a sudden

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**Category:** Builder\
**Created:** [August 10, 2018, 4:47pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/difficulty-getting-sound-to-play-on-psychopy-all-of-a-sudden/5049 "2018-08-10T16:47:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 4:47pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/difficulty-getting-sound-to-play-on-psychopy-all-of-a-sudden/5049/1 "2018-08-10T16:47:45Z")

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**OS** : Ubuntu 14.04.5  
**PsychoPy version** : 1.85.3  
\*\*Standard Standalone? yes  
\*\*What are you trying to achieve?:  
In Builder, I coded an experiment where a word stimuli and a beep is presented on each trial. To make the beep, I specified only the letter ‘A’ in the Sound section of the Sound stimuli component. It was working perfectly fine for a period of time, and then all of a sudden stopped working yesterday. I don’t know of any updates to the computer I’m using to run this experiment, and why it would all of a sudden stop playing a sound.  
Thanks so much for your help with troubleshooting this!