I cannot get a sound to play on arrival of new mail, default or custom.

I am running on a Linux box under CentOS 5.10. If I select a .wav file in a file browser screen it plays just fine. The same file is silent when used as a custom mail arrival sound. The default sound also does not play. As far as I know I have set up the sound selection in the General tab correctly. In an earlier version of Thunderbird the sound worked fine. My current version of T'bird is 24.7.0. How do I fix this problem?

"was it the same sound file...."
No. I picked another .wav file that sounds like the horn used for horse races.
"Thunderbird has a limit on the sample rate. is 16khz"
I have no idea how to determine this for the .wav file I selected. I know that the file plays when I select the file in the file manager screen, so I know that the default audio player handles it; similarly, if I open noatun and specify that .wav file to be played, it plays fine.
"Using KDE? Is the file the KDE default mail sound?"
No. I am running gnome, I believe, though the KDE programs that I invoke (such as games) run well also. I really do not know what the default mail sound is, as it has never played on this computer despite my efforts to get SOME kind of audible indication that email has arrived. On an older machine with an older kernel and an older Thunderbird I was able to get the default sound and substitute one I liked better.

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