adding sounds to pdf

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December 11, 2021
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I would like to add sounds to a pdf - to be played by clicking on a button. I can do this following the help instructions. However, it appears that these files need to be in wav format if I use the simple add sound procedure (which does not take mp3 sounds). Is there any way to add mp3 sounds (without video)? And is there any way to stop the sound once it has started to play?

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JR Boulay

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Thanks to you I see that there are still no control buttons when a MP sound is played...

Well done Adobe!

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JR Boulay

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Like other real PDF readers, Acrobat has to support backward compatibility with old PDFs.

The WAV and AIFF sounds come to us from the 90s and the first steps of the PDF format, they are useless today as the PDF format only supports NOT compressed WAV and AIFF sounds, which quickly takes up a lot of space in the document.

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Terence22201975o8blAuthor

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I can understand the back compatibility requirements.
So the way things are: to insert an mp3 sound I have to use the "Insert
sound" technique in Rich Media.
As far as I can see this uses a video display window while playing the
sound. I am afraid this appears (to me) a little tacky.
I can cover up the video display before it plays with a "poster" - say an
image of a speaker.
But then the display still turns to an empty black video screen when the
sound is played.

What I would like is to enable the reader to play a sound file when
clicking on or hovering over an invisible window over the title of what
would be played.
I can do this using the button technique - but this only uses wav files and
my pdf will rapidly grow to gigabyte size.

Terry

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JR Boulay

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A picture is worth 1000 words:

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Terence22201975o8blAuthor

Participant

Many thanks. I am a neophyte in these things.
What you say works - I shall need to set up a poster image to use with the
sound. In the advanced options I can set the sound to turn off when the
page is turned
I also found the following video which inserts a (wav) sound with a button.
This allows me to set up the button (border and fill) within Adobe. Its
suggestion is to turn off the sound by playing a silence wav file.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj1QXl3SEd0

Terry

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Terence22201975o8blAuthor

Participant

I have tried using the "add sound" procedure.
It seems basically designed for videos rather than for sounds. When the
sound is on the activation area becomes an empty black (video) screen. I
have tried various things to hide it to no avail - I cannot put an image on
top of it since the rich media appears to be at the front of everything.
So I think I am going back to the button - play sound technique. The only
problem is that this requires wav format sounds which will make the pdf
file very large. Why cannot adobe support mp3 sounds in this procedure?
Any other advice would be appreciated.

Terry

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