custom sounds say they're missing but aren't!

Around the 8th of this month valve finally got around to fixing soundscapes reading from improper soundcaches, but the custom sound play feature is still broken.

http://i.imgur.com/QFIn4RK.jpg

That is a screencap of my console as it complains endlessly that various ambient_generics within earshot on their own random timers are not playing when they are supposed to be because they are "missing from repository". You'd think one would only get this error if they made it so the map was trying to reference sounds that were not in the proper place or didn't exist at all but...

http://i.imgur.com/sJojews.jpg

That's a screencap of the exact folder where all the sounds are located and called from. ALL of these sounds worked prior to Scream Fortress 6, but broke along with the soundscapes which are now fixed thankfully.

The strange part is, SOME of these sounds will play, and SOME will not. It is very bizarre and annoying.
I had the folder titled with a capital M "Merasmustower" and noticed the console referencing it with a lowercase. I HIGHLY doubted that was the case but changed it to lowercase and tested the map again, same result.

The map has embedded custom content for soundscapes and custom sounds alike (as well as one custom texture too).
The sounds are NOT corrupted or anything. I played a few of the ones it said it had failed to load and they played and sounded perfectly fine in Windows Media Player.

Do I need to recompile it so it gets a fresh take on all the new garbage they have put into tf2 regarding sounds behavior? I can't imagine why that would help but it's all I can think of.

I am desperate. Any ideas to get ALL of my custom sounds working again?

Izotope said:

had the same issue before, some sounds playing and some "missing" while they're not.

I don't know what fixes this, but try moving your sounds to:
Team Fortress 2/tf/download/sound/merasmustower

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Didn't do diddly doo :crying:

I wouldn't by any chance have to change the path specified in hammer for all custom sounds for this to work, would I? That would require a recompile and me hunting down what is by now probably multiple months old work.

Izotope said:

iirc I had this issue on a map where I kept the custom sounds locally even though I packed them, and one day this error occurred. I think I deleted them locally and now it works.

If you've packed your sounds, then just move the local files to your desktop and see if the issue remains.

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That didn't seem to do it either. I noticed in the console it said <mapname>.cfg not found, not executing. I never noticed that before. Is that new? Do I need to make a cfg file for it to read that precaches the sounds or something?

I don't know what you mean by packed, unless you just mean embedded. I embedded them with pakrat I believe. Moving the entire merasmustower folder to my desktop and that just made ALL the sounds not be found. It's behaving as though the content isn't embedded at all.

Edit: Scratch that. Apparently they are not embedded in the version I am trying. I'll embed them now and see if that works, but that therefore means the issue is with all custom sounds, period. Not just custom sounds embedded in maps and also located in a sound folder directory :/

Edit 2: Nope. Embedded all the necessary files, custom sounds included WHILE the merasmustower folder was in its proper place in the tf sound directory, tested it, same result. Half worked, half didn't. Removed the folder and put it to my desktop with the map still having embedded content, still same thing.

Do I need to put the sounds in tf/download/sound/merasmustower and THEN embed them from there?

Edit 3: That did not do it either. Strangely enough, it still does the same thing. Some work and some do not. How can that be? embedded sounds still work when embedded from this path?
I even tried the same thing from here, removed the sound folder and kept the embedded content in the .bsp and tried it. Still the same thing of half working half not. This is infuriating.