Adding Audio to rollover areas

I need to add an image to a question that when a student rests their mouse over will play a short mp3 file. I do not want the file to play automatically - I have added a roll over image and a roll over caption - both work sporadically - sometimes they play as soon as the question launches - sometimes I have to hover my mouse. When I go back into edit the slides - the rollover does not show an audio file on the ones that wait for the hovering mouse - but always does on those that do, I have no idea what I have done differently.... What is the proper path to follow to complete this type of interaction???? Any any idea what may have caused my plight?

Hi there
It's not exactly clear to me how exactly you assigned the audio.
In case it will help, I'll outline the process I might follow (which I've never seen fail) in the hopes it will help you.
Click Insert > Rollover (Image or Caption, it should make no difference).
When you do this, you see TWO objects on the slide. One is the area your user mouses over. The other is what appears when the user mouses over the other area.
Note that each of the two areas will allow you to attach Audio. And here is where many folks grow confused.
If you attach audio to the rollover area, you hear it when the rollover area appears. Often, this means when the slide loads up. But if you attach the audio to the object that appears when the rollover area is moused over by the user, the audio should only be heard when you mouse over.
All too often users get the two confused. They assign the audio to the rollover area and it needs to be the other way around.
Cheers... Rick
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Thanks for your answer but I need a bit more info.
I have six rollover buttons each should be assigned a different audio sound.
Each rollover is a symbol on the main timeline, so when I import the audio for lets say rollover_1 do I open the rollover one symbol and drag the audio on THAT timeline?
Or do I have to do this on the main timeline?
In the symbol timeline there is two lables (up and over)
the audio would need to play on the over state which is why I figure if I need to put the audio on the symbol timeline it would make sense.
Lets say this is true so on the symbol timeline the over state is exactly at 0.01
so would I use the following?
// Play an audio track
sym.$("rollover_1")[0.01].play(); ???????
THEN add the code you gave me?
sym.$("rollover_1")[0].currentTime = 0; ????????
sym.$("rollover_1")[0].play(); ???
If I'm inside the symbol timeline where is the current time and play times?
OR do I place the codes on the maintimeline?
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To those of us that are not as informed as you on the complexities of copyright music, we expect to be able to listen and use these songs on a personal basis WHEN WE PAY FOR THEM. The fact that you found this so laughable tells me enough about your character to know that I won't be needing any help from you in the future.

Adding Audio to previous Edge file in new Edge v3. Audio files don't appear?

Hi All,
Pretty exciting stuff that there is a new Edge Version out with Audio! So I gave it a go on a project I have made previously and had been using Buzz Audio, which I had working fine, but this new version looks like a much cleaner way to go (snaps to everyone on the Edge team).
However I have immediately encountered a problem when adding the Audio files to the library using the "+" symbol. I select the files to add which are .mp3 format and select Open. There is no error message, the Audio library flashes as though a new audio file has been added but then is back to it's original state showing no audio files are available (yes i've checked the Audio drop down arrow sever times ) ?
I then tried this using a new blank document and the audio files added fine as expected.
Can't seem to find why Audio wouldn't add to my previous project file which is about 1MB in total size and created with the previous version of Edge CC.
Thanks in advance for any ideas,
Cheers,
Jeff

Hi Darrell,
Thanks for your idea, I have given it a go with the following results:
Saved the previous file as a new file, in a new folder location.
Loaded up the file, no errors, all good.
Loaded up the audio files into the library and they appeared this time, excellent!
However upon loading up these audio files it immediately generated the following error message:
"An error occurred. Please save your work and restart Edge Animate."
This message now appears every time I try to open the Edge Animate file, presumably when it's now loading up the audio library where I first got this error.?
However, the audio does play and the file seems to work... despite the less than encouraging message i'm getting. I've tried this on a few different files now and I seem to get the same error message result when adding audio to other older tutorial created files also... could it be possible it's not just me with this issue?
Thanks again for your help, hopefully we/someone can make sense of the error message that is now hanging over?
Cheers,
Jeff

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Using Reflection White theme and having problems adding audio to opening menu. Been successful adding audio to submenus.
I would like to have audio when dvd is played and waiting for user to select submenus and also have same audio play when user returns to main menu (title)

Thanks for the reply.
Bit confused.
Where is the "audio well"? What does it look like?
When I select the music and click "apply" nothing
seems to happen. When I then click on 'Menu" the
duration is set to max - 3.31 and volume is set to
mid way.
I usually drag and drop audio clips from the iTunes
directory.
The audio well is that little rectangle that is just to the left of the 'Menu Volume' slider. Be sure you have iDVD back to your main menu screen. After you go to 'Media->Audio->iTunesLibrary and select the audio, click on 'Apply' You should begin to hear the music you selected. Go back to the 'Menu' tab and look at that audio well rectangle. You should now see a little icon of an audio file.
Is the any function that shows what is attached to a
submenu? I can see the movies and slideshows that I
have dropped onto the menu/submenu.
Yes, just under the main screen there are three circular buttons. The left one is for activating the sound in the menus. It should be blue when it is on.
The middle button is a 'play' button that allows you to play your movie from the iDVD menu.
The third button is the Map button. Click on this one to see a diagram/outline of the structure of your menus showing what is within each submenu.

Pointer when adding audio to clip

When adding audio/music to a clip (not background) it sits below the clip with a small arrow/pointer pointing to the clip. What does that pointer indicate? Why does it move? Can someone point me to resourcs that explain that in detail?
Thanks

I think you are right that the marker "stays". I don't have any special insight to how this was coded by Apple, but it appears to me that you initially attach the audio to a certain frame in a certain clip. Later you can drag the audio forward or backward, and it may remain attached to the initial frame, but be given an offset. For example, the audio is attached to frame five of clip three, but the audio actually begins at -30 or 30 frames to the left of the anchor frame.
I think if you experimented with it, you might find that if you delete the clip with the anchor frame, the audio is deleted, too, but I don't have time to test this right now.

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