http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32378
--- Comment #10 from Rob rclocher3@yahoo.com 2012-12-17 22:28:47 CST --- I decided to do a sanity check, so I downloaded a tiny Windows program PlaySound.exe from http://www.virtualobjectives.com.au/utilitiesprogs/playsound.htm that plays WAV files. I ran it in Wine to play a WAV file, and lo and behold, it ran perfectly! I double-checked, but unfortunately the "Test Sound" button in winecfg still doesn't work. More importantly to me, the sound doesn't work either in the Windows program that I'd really like to run in Wine.
But that's useful information, yeah? The sound works for one program, but not for another. By the way, I did some regression testing. I tried all three programs (PlaySound.exe, the "Test Sound" button in winecfg, and my Windows program) in wine-1.4.1 and in wine-1.5.19. In wine-1.5.19 I tried both the Pulse and ALSA drivers. The results were the same for both Wine versions and with both drivers: PlaySound.exe worked perfectly, the other programs didn't. I did notice that the "Test Sound" button often made a tic noise when the button was pushed repeatedly with the Pulse driver, but not with the ALSA driver.