So I went back to version 1.2.5, to see how the game was back then, and I wasn't getting any sound. I naturally tried checking various things, but something that stuck out to me were these errors:
it repeats with (as far as I can tell) all of the sound files. Now, before you tell me to fix my firewall, I made sure that the javaw that the program's running off of is let through. The other tipoff is what you get when you go there yourself:
This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
So I went back to version 1.2.5, to see how the game was back then, and I wasn't getting any sound. I naturally tried checking various things, but something that stuck out to me were these errors:
java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 403 for URL: http://s3.amazonaws.com/MinecraftResources/newsound/ambient/cave/cave1.ogg
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream0(HttpURLConnection.java:1838)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1439)
at java.net.URL.openStream(URL.java:1038)
at ck.a(SourceFile:104)
at ck.a(SourceFile:93)
at ck.run(SourceFile:42)
it repeats with (as far as I can tell) all of the sound files. Now, before you tell me to fix my firewall, I made sure that the javaw that the program's running off of is let through. The other tipoff is what you get when you go there yourself:
This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
<Error>
<Code>AccessDenied</Code>
<Message>Access Denied</Message>
<RequestId>8DC89935B21EA456</RequestId>
<HostId>
7EcdrabyP3JXmERlGNdRK+yK5AP+PLswra9672+7M1JoTRCYOOj0x0M0DogL/aaWDkEe5QjL4GU=
</HostId>
</Error>
Is this just me, or are the sound files no longer obtainable for older versions?
For anyone looking at this post in the future, I fixed it by following this youtube video: