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KG-TMI
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June 6, 2021
Question

Pause "Play Audio" Command...HELP!

  • June 6, 2021
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I was an auditor for a company that had a need for training.  I took on the roll without any LMS experience.  I have learned Captivate with the help of the online community, mostly Paul Wilson (Your YouTube channel saved me a lot of frustration).  Fast forward a year and now I have complex interactions with audio and music.  I have one issue that I cannot resolve...and it drives me crazy.

 

I need a way to pause the course regardless of the audio type.  My learners need to be able to pause since they are taking these courses during work.  These are desktop only courses and learner engagement is important to us, so I do not want to get rid of my interactions.  The audio is "Play Audio" in Advanced Actions.  I need the audio to pause with the course and resume when unpaused.  I am willing to build buttons or use java script; however, I would need someone to give me the script as I have no idea how to write script just used it here and there by copying someone else's script.  Stop Triggered Audio will not work as it will not resume or pause the entire course as well.  Please help.  I feel like Adobe should have the built in play bar pause the entire course, regardless of the audio type.   

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Paul Wilson CTDP
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 7, 2021

Using slide audio would solve this easily. Can you tell me why you are not using slide audio in favour of triggered audio?

Paul Wilson, CTDP
KG-TMI
KG-TMIAuthor
Participant
June 7, 2021
Narration audio is tied to carousels, click to reveal and play once conditions.

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Lilybiri
Legend
June 7, 2021

Can you please check out this blog post?

Pausing Timeline and Audio clips - eLearning (adobe.com)

 

You'll see that you have chosen the type of audio which cannot be paused and resumed in Captivate. Slide audio can easily be done, Object audio is already more tricky but could be the solution in this case. There is no 'Pause Triggered Audio' in Captivate, those audio clips triggered with 'Play Audio' are out of controll except for stopping them. Stop occurse not only with 'Stop triggered audio' but also when starting another Audio clip with 'Play audio' when a first one is still playing.