Continuous background music (mp3 audio) in e-pub (indesign)

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February 20, 2018
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I'm working on an ePub (fixed layout) and I want to add music that will start at the first page and continue through all of the ebook pages (and loop allover again) - can it be done? how?

I tried to add "media" at the fist page - check the "play on load" and "loop" (didn't checked the ""stop on page turn) but the music stops after the page turn...

Please Help

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jillianrmartin

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Hi there, was this ever figured out. I am looking to do the same thing ans have the same issues but in online dgital publishing.

James Gifford—NitroPress

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This is almost entirely a reader-dependent idea; audio is very irregularly supported in EPUB and multifunction readers and a generic 'EPUB' solution isn't likely to work across any large number of them.

And not to second guess anyone's design, but I can't imagine wanting to/tolerating an audio loop playing across even a few pages of a brochure. Not sure this is a... thought-out design element or need.

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jillianrmartin

Participating Frequently

In my case the music element is important as the slideshow acts almost as a film trailer. - This feature doesnt seem to be supported though via Adobe digital publishing. I was hoping maybe if I added the music track to a master page it would work but that also doesn't seem to be the case.

JonathanArias

Legend

Audio restarts as you change pages. So you can just stay in one page, and design the ePub so there is an internal navigation that allows you to go forward in you pages/slides (MSO).

How about that?

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sarah-janef72658543

Participant

Thanks - I'm not sure that would work for my current project but something to consider in future. Thanks again 🙂

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sarah-janef72658543

Participant

Heh, did you ever get a reply? I would like to do the same

rayek.elfin

Legend

It is possible to play continuous audio in the background of an epub. Either by manual coding, or by using a third-party product. Aside from CircularFLO, another alternative is PubCoder.

PubCoder imports the FXL epub from InDesign, and in the project settings an option is available to have an audio file playing across the entire book. Works in the Apple readers, as well as Thorium (Win, Mac, Linux).

PubCoder is great, but has one caveat that it will not support InDesign's animation or interactivity features. The workflow is different: create your static FXL book in InDesign, import in PubCoder, add the animations and interactivity, export. Works very, very well. Unlike CircularFLO it is available for Windows and Mac. And very affordable.