Pausing slide audio

[stephenw30516810]

Dear all, I am a complete newbie to this and am creating some very basic slides with audio narration on them.  I have made a back button and a next button with a third button for repeat.  The repeat button replays the audio (narration). I want the ability for the user to pause the narration and then resume.  I have tried putting in a button to pause and a button for resume.  When I tried that the audio started from the begining again.  So I tried making the skin visible with the play pause button and all this does is restart the audio from the begining again.  I am lost on this, does anyone have any ideas?  I must stress I am a beginner of beginners with this.  Best 

[Lilybiri]

I created an example. Have a look, if this is what you want, will write out a blog:

https://www.lilybiri.com/published/PlayAudio/index.html

FYI: I used a shared action with 2 parameters.  It will not be that hard to attach it to shape buttons, and you don't have to check the option to pause the slide audio in Options which saves time. Here is a link to the blog:

http://blog.lilybiri.com/combining-slide-audio-and-play-audio

[nikolausm82011740]

This is exactly what I meant!

Thank you very much, This will indeed be a great blog post!

[Lilybiri · Accepted solution]

Blog post is already online (my personal blog). It will also appear in the eLearning community, but is (as usual) waiting for moderation. As if I would post spam...

http://blog.lilybiri.com/combining-slide-audio-and-play-audio

You'll see that I needed a second shared action with one parameter to cope with all situations.

[nikolausm82011740]

I read it. So, basically delaying the audio by length of each file, correct? Thanks so much! 

Good solution but they should really build that feature into the next version. It's a no-brainer....

[Lilybiri]

Hope you read the whole blog, because you need also preserve the pausing by the buttons at the end. It is a good example of using the Timeline and micro-navigation.

[nikolausm82011740]

It is very useful, thank you and happy holidays. 

[Lilybiri]

Thanks, enjoy the holidays as well!