Sound files exist but won't play

 

After carefully editing my GPX files just the way I want them to play particular proximity sound alerts, I went on a trip and my Nuvi 755 would only play its default built-in double beep for each and every one.

After staring right at the problem for the longest time I discovered that even though the sound files are in the Nuvi POI directory, they were not in the directory on my PC where I pointed the Garmin POI loader utility, so it dutifully ignored them.

I wouldn't have expected this behavior, but I moved the sound files to the same directory as the GPX files and it magically played the sounds that I wanted.

Originally they were all in the same directory, but I had created a subdirectory to hold a small subset of GPX files for this trip without moving the sound files. Silly me! Live and learn.

Hopefully this will save others the same nonsense that I went through.