How do I stop the audio from playing when slide opens?

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January 5, 2018
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I am trying to get a slide to open, with an icon in the right hand corner that you click, and only when you click it plays audio. I have tried it a number of ways but the audio keeps starting as soon as the slide opens. My latest attempt I used a clickbox and recorded information direct to the clickbox. I rightclicked on the clickbox and hit - audio - record - save and sure enough the audio still plays immediately the slide opens.

Please help - doing my head in!

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Correct answer RodWard

Your first screen shot indicates you indeed have the Play Audio action set up to play Recording 14.wav file when the Click Box is clicked.

However, your second screen shot indicates that you ALSO have the same audio file attached to the Click Box as Object Audio, which means the audio would play as soon as the Click Box entered the timeline.

I suggest you need to remove the Object Audio from the Click Box.

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carolh12157853Author

Participant

Thank you for responding.

I have the action; On Success - Play audio - already embedded into the click box. Please see screen shots of properties. Hope you can see what I've done wrong. Thanks a lot.

RodWard

Correct answer

Community Expert

Your first screen shot indicates you indeed have the Play Audio action set up to play Recording 14.wav file when the Click Box is clicked.

However, your second screen shot indicates that you ALSO have the same audio file attached to the Click Box as Object Audio, which means the audio would play as soon as the Click Box entered the timeline.

I suggest you need to remove the Object Audio from the Click Box.

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carolh12157853Author

Participant

Thanks Rod, that's great. It's now working the way I want it to. Because I'm new to Captivate, I'm often ticking things without knowing what I'm ticking, but it's becoming clearer.

Thanks again

Lilybiri

Legend

Apparently you don't need CC, because using the built in CC feature requires slide audio and that starts playing when the slide starts unless you Pause it with the On Enter event.

If youwant object audio, you have to know that such audio starts playing when the object is visible on the slide, which is what happened with the click box.

You can use a button with the command 'Play Audio' triggered byt its Success event. That is the easiest way.

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