Multiple mp3's on an InDesign page?

Question

I use InDesign 5.5. I created a page, placed five mp3 songs on it, exported the page as PDF. Got a file whose size indicates that the audio files are all embedded. Yay!

If I open the PDF in Acrobat Reader, clicking on the preview starts every song correctly. That's great, but clicking again, or clicking another song doesn't stop the old song from continuing. Oops! Once started, a MP3 plays to the very end no matter what I do short of closing Reader. If a user clicks several MP3's they all play resulting in a major sonic cacophony... hmm.

Is there an elegant solution to having a handful of songs on a book page? Thank you.

BobLevine · Accepted Answer

Best advice I can give you is to give this up. You'll never get an acceptable result with multimedia in a PDF. This is especially true using a 13 year old version of InDesign which will probably let you do a bunch of things that aren't even supported anymore.

george_8017 · Answer

Original poster here... here is the final result: a free PDF book about Puna, Hawaii with 12 Easter Egg songs: https://tinyurl.com/3kpbufj5 It's 300 Megs, because it has 250 color pictures too. You're correct, for the music to work right, Acrobat Reader is needed, the web browsers don't always play along. Now I just have to figure out the best way to hand this first book of mine out free, as Amazon would charge me $1 for every $0 "sale"... hmm.

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