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October 29, 2015
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How to make background music place for certain slides (continuously)

  • October 29, 2015
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Version: Captivate 8

Type: ELearning

Slides: 40

Issue: Background music plays on all slides instead of just slides 10-35

Things I've tried: Assigning music to an invisible object (Doesn't work because music gets cut off when the slide pauses for user input)

Thanks to everyone for your help in advance. To get to the problem, I've created an interactive game within a module of other various slides where the user needs to make choices, those choices will take users to a different branch of the slide depending on that choice. This section of the lesson is all grouped together. It would be so easy to add background music using the native tools in captivate but there is no way to tell captivate which slides to play the music on.

Assigning the music to an invisible object causes the music to cut off when waiting for user input and will sound choppy when users need to go back and forth between menus.

Is there some way to do this? I was thinking there could be a way to get a timestamp from the last slide and use that in a script to tell which part of the music file to start playing, but that seems like more work than what's actually needed (plus i'm not that good at javascript)

Is there somehow a way to tell captivate simply when to start playing a sound and when to stop, no matter which slide is navigated to?

If anyone has figured this out, I would greatly appreciate the help.

Please let me know if any additional information is needed

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Correct answer Lilybiri

The only control that exists for background music is to stop it on certain slides. Maybe this will be the easiest work flow: insert background music, set it to loop and mark all slides where it should not play?

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Lilybiri
LilybiriCorrect answer
Legend
October 29, 2015

The only control that exists for background music is to stop it on certain slides. Maybe this will be the easiest work flow: insert background music, set it to loop and mark all slides where it should not play?

Participant
October 29, 2015

Thanks, I wasn't aware that was a feature. I looked around but couldn't find it. Would you mind telling me where it's located?

Lilybiri
Legend
October 29, 2015

You cannot do it for a bunch of slides, you have to do it for each slide where it has to be stopped: