Is the PlaySound() function incompatible with MQL5, or are the developers just thick?

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Sorry, but why are the simplest of things just impossible. The fact that there are other posts on here saying the same thing - with equally unclear responses - speaks volumes. 

The `PlaySound()` method - seriously?

The file path `C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\MetaQuotes\Terminal\Sounds` is where the sound file is located.

Lets see what the documentation says, shall we?

`The file must be located in terminal_directory\Sounds or its sub-directory. Only WAV files are played.`

`Terminal\Sounds`

Clue is in the directory path, right?

My data is correct, yet MQL5 seems to thing otherwise:

if(!PlaySound("//Sounds//error_sound.wav")){
                  
            Print("Sound file not found");
         
         };


#result
2026.01.30 11:08:50.778 2026.26.1.3 (GBPJPY,H1) Sound file not found


Oh look at that, it's a .wav file, and - well - blow me down with a feather, it's in the correct directory. 

I am so tired of ripping my hair out over unclear documentation, I am so tired of these programmes not doing as they're told. This should have taken a few minutes to implement.

Bu oh no, because that would be way to simple, wouldn't it? Why allow your users to spend 3 minutes when you can make them spend 5,000 years only to see the same pointless error message.

I literally don't know why I bother with this POS sometimes, I really don't.

Either the documentation is unclear or wrong, or the developers at Metaquotes Language forgot to implement the backend of the `PlaySound()` method, which is it?.

WHY
DOES
MQL5
NOT
FIND
THE
SOUND
FILE?!

 
why use "//" not "\\" ?
 
One slash is correct. “\\” is one backslash. “//“ is two forward slashes.
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