With all the hullabaloo surrounding Minecraft, I decided to check it out.  But as I'm walking around, hitting rocks with my polygonal hand or whatever, there doesn't seem to be any sound.  The sound options say it's all the way up, but there's nothing playing. 
 
Anyone else encounter this?  Or can you somehow explain it? 

sound is broken for the moment

I didn't get any sound initially until after restarting my computer.

" With all the hullabaloo surrounding Minecraft, I decided to check it out.  But as I'm walking around, hitting rocks with my polygonal hand or whatever, there doesn't seem to be any sound.  The sound options say it's all the way up, but there's nothing playing.  Anyone else encounter this?  Or can you somehow explain it?  "

Thanks folks.  I realize it's in alpha so I just wanted to confirm that other people were experiencing it or had experienced it.

" @king0fprussia said:

" With all the hullabaloo surrounding Minecraft, I decided to check it out.  But as I'm walking around, hitting rocks with my polygonal hand or whatever, there doesn't seem to be any sound.  The sound options say it's all the way up, but there's nothing playing.  Anyone else encounter this?  Or can you somehow explain it?  "

That's because Notch had to dramatically decrease the load on the servers, so he unabled sound for new users of Minecraft. Basically, you are not downloading the sound files, as they are not in the server. The webpage is up again, so you should try redownloading the latest version of the exe and running the update again. "

I think it's because your a new user.  There can't be anything wrong with minecraft, it's perfect!!!

Hmm..I've tried redownloading, offline play, and restarting.  None have worked yet.  So I'm just assuming sound is being withheld for server concerns.  Sound also doesn't work when I play in browser.

" Hmm..I've tried redownloading, offline play, and restarting.  None have worked yet.  So I'm just assuming sound is being withheld for server concerns.  Sound also doesn't work when I play in browser. "