Why is genymotion emulator not playing sound?

I am working on creating a flappy bird clone with the Libgdx framework -http://ift.tt/1mIByNU

I managed to launch the application on my google nexus 7 Genymotion emulator but I am not able to play any of the sound effects that I was able to hear when launching the desktop version of the game I tried turning the sound up

but even that didn't make a difference. Does anyone know what the issue is? I did some research and read up on here Genymotion emulator not detecting sound that a bug in the Windows(my machine) version of Genymotion prevents the emulator from detecting the sound but could you also imply that if it cannot detect a sound, it cannot play a sound? I wasn't so sure about that conditional statement.