Nothing has changed in this respect for many, many months... And working just fine for me.
- Check that you are using FMOD as the audio backend (OpenAL cannot announce music info).
- Check that Preferences -> Notifications -> Do not echo/log notify tips in chat is *not* checked.
If this fails, try wiping your settings (simply rename the settings file so to be able to reuse it later if it's not the problem) and if this fails as well, please, follow the usual procedure (logs, repro steps, etc).