I don't know what went wrong, but a couple of versions back (1024), the sounds were working perfectly.

Now, they don't.

 

I call the sounds like this:

worldObj.playSoundAtEntity(player, "realmoffera:coinBag.pickUp", 0.1F, 0.5F * ((UtilRF.RANDOM.nextFloat() - UtilRF.RANDOM.nextFloat()) * 0.7F + 1.8F));

 

I get this in the console:

[10:58:31] [Client thread/WARN]: Unable to play unknown soundEvent: realmoffera:coinBag.pickUp

 

Here are my folders:

 

Finally, here's my sounds.json file:

{
"mob.mummy.say": {
	"category": "hostile",
	"sounds": [
		"name": "mob/mummy/say"
	]
},
"mob.mummy.death": {
	"category": "hostile",
	"sounds": [
		"name": "mob/mummy/death"
	]
},
"mob.mummy.hurt": {
	"category": "hostile",
	"sounds": [
		"name": "mob/mummy/hurt"
	]
},
"mob.paladin.death": {
	"category": "hostile",
	"sounds": [
		"name": "mob/paladin/death"
	]
},
"mob.paladin.hurt": {
	"category": "hostile",
	"sounds": [
		"name": "mob/paladin/hurt"
	]
},
"coinBag.pickUp": {
	"category": "player",
	"sounds": [
		"name": "coinBag/pickUp1", "coinBag/pickUp2", "coinBag/pickUp3"
	]
}
}

I was just scrolling through my console, and I found this:

[11:16:42] [Client thread/WARN]: Invalid sounds.json
com.google.gson.JsonSyntaxException: com.google.gson.stream.MalformedJsonException: Unterminated array at line 5 column 11
at com.google.gson.internal.Streams.parse(Streams.java:56) ~[streams.class:?]
at com.google.gson.TreeTypeAdapter.read(TreeTypeAdapter.java:54) ~[TreeTypeAdapter.class:?]
at com.google.gson.internal.bind.TypeAdapterRuntimeTypeWrapper.read(TypeAdapterRuntimeTypeWrapper.java:40) ~[TypeAdapterRuntimeTypeWrapper.class:?]
at com.google.gson.internal.bind.MapTypeAdapterFactory$Adapter.read(MapTypeAdapterFactory.java:187) ~[MapTypeAdapterFactory$Adapter.class:?]
at com.google.gson.internal.bind.MapTypeAdapterFactory$Adapter.read(MapTypeAdapterFactory.java:145) ~[MapTypeAdapterFactory$Adapter.class:?]
at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:803) ~[Gson.class:?]
at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:768) ~[Gson.class:?]
at net.minecraft.client.audio.SoundHandler.onResourceManagerReload(SoundHandler.java:83) [soundHandler.class:?]
at net.minecraft.client.resources.SimpleReloadableResourceManager.registerReloadListener(SimpleReloadableResourceManager.java:124) [simpleReloadableResourceManager.class:?]
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.startGame(Minecraft.java:527) [Minecraft.class:?]
at net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run(Minecraft.java:892) [Minecraft.class:?]
at net.minecraft.client.main.Main.main(Main.java:112) [Main.class:?]
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) ~[?:1.7.0_51]
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) ~[?:1.7.0_51]
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) ~[?:1.7.0_51]
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) ~[?:1.7.0_51]
at net.minecraft.launchwrapper.Launch.launch(Launch.java:134) [launchwrapper-1.9.jar:?]
at net.minecraft.launchwrapper.Launch.main(Launch.java:28) [launchwrapper-1.9.jar:?]
Caused by: com.google.gson.stream.MalformedJsonException: Unterminated array at line 5 column 11
at com.google.gson.stream.JsonReader.syntaxError(JsonReader.java:1505) ~[JsonReader.class:?]
at com.google.gson.stream.JsonReader.doPeek(JsonReader.java:465) ~[JsonReader.class:?]
at com.google.gson.stream.JsonReader.hasNext(JsonReader.java:403) ~[JsonReader.class:?]
at com.google.gson.internal.bind.TypeAdapters$25.read(TypeAdapters.java:658) ~[TypeAdapters$25.class:?]
at com.google.gson.internal.bind.TypeAdapters$25.read(TypeAdapters.java:667) ~[TypeAdapters$25.class:?]
at com.google.gson.internal.bind.TypeAdapters$25.read(TypeAdapters.java:642) ~[TypeAdapters$25.class:?]
at com.google.gson.internal.Streams.parse(Streams.java:44) ~[streams.class:?]
... 17 more

 

I know something is wrong with line 5 at column 11 (I don't know how to count columns?), but it doesn't seem like anything is wrong.

Rows and column :

http://www.gitta.info/DataCompress/en/image/column_row.jpg

So that would be the 11th symbol/character on that line

 

Aka. re-check the file,

try a different file/simpler one to check that it's the file and not something else

I don't think a name : value is allowed inside an array.

{"name1": "value", "name2": 3} <- is object form

["value1", "value2", "value3"]  <- is array form

 

[{"name": "value here"}, {"name": "another value"}] <- objects inside array are allowed

Mazetar: Does a tab count as a character?

 

sequituri: Nope,

 

{ 
"mob.mummy.say": {
	"category": "hostile",
	"sounds": [{
	"mob/mummy/say"
	}]
},
"mob.mummy.death": {
	"category": "hostile",
	"sounds": [{
		"name": "mob/mummy/death"
	}]
},
"mob.mummy.hurt": {
	"category": "hostile",
	"sounds": [{
		"name": "mob/mummy/hurt"
	}]
},
"mob.paladin.death": {
	"category": "hostile",
	"sounds": [{
		"name": "mob/paladin/death"
	}]
},
"mob.paladin.hurt": {
	"category": "hostile",
	"sounds": [{
		"name": "mob/paladin/hurt"
	}]
},
"coinBag.pickUp": {
	"category": "player",
	"sounds": [{
		"name": "coinBag/pickUp1", "coinBag/pickUp2", "coinBag/pickUp3"
	}]
}
}

 

Edit: I got it to work, but I had to cut the amout of sounds in 1 name to 1.

 

{ 
"mob.mummy.say": {
  "category": "hostile",
  "sounds": [{
  "name": "mob/mummy/say"
  }]
},
"mob.mummy.death": {
  "category": "hostile",
  "sounds": [{
   "name": "mob/mummy/death"
  }]
},
"mob.mummy.hurt": {
  "category": "hostile",
  "sounds": [{
   "name": "mob/mummy/hurt"
  }]
},
"mob.paladin.death": {
  "category": "hostile",
  "sounds": [{
   "name": "mob/paladin/death"
  }]
},
"mob.paladin.hurt": {
  "category": "hostile",
  "sounds": [{
   "name": "mob/paladin/hurt"
  }]
},
"coinBag.pickUp": {
  "category": "player",
  "sounds": [{
   "name": "coinBag/pickUp1"
  }]
}
}

You shouldn't need to cut the number of sounds down to one; try removing "name", as that may be setting some flag that indicates there is only one sound.

 

EDIT: Curly brackets within the array brackets is neither required nor correct:

[ -sounds- ] is just fine, [{ -sounds- }] breaks the json file format for multiple sound names, though it seemingly works for single sounds.

 

Here is what part of my sounds.json file looks like:

"break_jar": {"category": "block","sounds":["block/ceramic1","block/ceramic2","block/ceramic3","block/ceramic4"]},
"hit_peg": {"category": "block","sounds":["block/hit_peg1","block/hit_peg2","block/hit_peg3","block/hit_peg4"]},
"hit_rusty": {"category": "block","sounds":["block/hit_rusty1","block/hit_rusty2","block/hit_rusty3"]},
"lock_chest": {"category": "block","sounds":["block/lock_chest"]},
"lock_door": {"category": "block","sounds":["block/lock_door"]},
etc.