I am redoing the audio for an older Unity project made in 2009. I am fairly new to Unity and my understanding thus far has been that if I name the files EXACTLY the same, the scripts should pick up and use the new audio file I put in. However, when I replace the file, no sound plays. I used the “find references in scene” option to see what the original files are attached to and then did the same to my new audio files and found they weren’t attached to anything.
Try opening your sounds folder (if you dont have one either make one or just do them each individually) up outside of unity, you can do this by right clicking the folder and then clicking “Show In Explorer”
Then Drag in your new sound effects and name them to be the same as the old files. It should prompt you to replace the new files, do it. Then when you open up unity it should recognize the change and swap out all the files for you!
This worked! Thank you very much! You saved me a lot of time and frustration!