I'm working on a game in UE5 with some other people and I'm the team lead. One of the guys on my team had just made a bunch of audio files in WWise and they all look good, but Unreal isn't recognizing them in the editor. We're using WWise 2022.1.3.8179.2621 for this project and we're integrating them into an Unreal Engine 5.0.3 project. I've integrated the audio files in the Audiokinetic Launcher following the documentation, and all of the audio files show up in Unreal as expected. I can even play each audio file in the Waapi Picker window as normal. But when I drag those files into the editor itself, they don't play. Playing the files from the content browser or from a blueprint instead prints the following error:
LogAkAudio: Warning: Failed to post AkAudioEvent: Data for 'FireFly' wasn't found. Make sure the GeneratedSoundBanks folder (C:/Users/MY PATH/Working Files/Soundbank/Through the Woods/GeneratedSoundBanks/) exists and is properly set in the project settings.
I've gone into the Integration Settings tab in the project settings and set the "Generated Sound Banks Folder" to the correct folder (the exact one that is in the error message). I did the same in the User Settings tab by setting the Generated Sound Banks Folder User Override to that folder. I also set Auto Connect to WAAPI to true while I was there. None of these fixes worked. I've also generated the soundbank from Unreal countless times at this point and no errors are reported. That is, except for the files that I had pulled out of the Waapi Picker window and into Unreal. For each one of these sounds, Unreal prints the following message:
LogWwiseResourceCooker: Warning: GetEventCookedData (9DB36A1541004444A2A3F2530AF065A0 677099000 FireFly): No ref found
I've now created three new projects to try and isolate the issue. In one project, I tried seeing if integrating the WWise project into a brand new Unreal project would change anything. It didn't. In the other project, I tried integrating another WWise project into the Unreal project to see if that would change anything. It also didn't. And just in case it was an issue with the Launcher's integration, I created another project and installed the WWise Unreal Integration plugin as an Engine Plug-In following the documentation. I set up all the paths again, generated the soundbanks, and I got the exact same errors. I can't seem to get past them no matter what I do. I've gone into the GeneratedSoundBanks folder and have double and triple checked that all the files that should be there are there. And as far as I can tell, they are. I've deleted these files and regenerated them multiple times to ensure that they're all fresh but I still end up with the same errors.
I should mention that I have no experience with WWise or sound design whatsoever. I work primarily in Unreal and I've never done anything in WWise until now. But at this point I feel like I have a workable grasp of what's going on just because of all the different pages of documentation that I've had to sort through to figure out what's happening. But I can't figure it out. Does anyone here know of any other fixes I could try? And if other error/log messages would help, I can post them here too. Any help would be greatly appreciated.