Embedding Sound : The Sound File Control

Newb here. Please bear with me.
I am embedding sound files into an e-book, floating controls every 15 minutes reading time. The use may read and listen and the same time.
It looks like I do not have much to chose concerning the sound player controls: the start/stop, beginning/end, and the position slider are really small, there are gray bars above and below, and everithing is sorrounded by a thick black border even though I select "no border" in the appearence option.
Please advise. Thank you very much.

You might try posting the the Acrobat ebooks forum: http://forums.adobe.com/community/acrobat/acrobat_ebooks

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Post Author: bhaveshbusa
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Attached is what it looks like for me (Firefox on Mac). And it looks that way in Safari as well.
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Im here with a stupid question.
I have an application which has a component.
Both have Buttons.
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in both places?
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Well best practice as to coding may influenced by the
architecture in this case.
It may be expedient if this sound file is a one time use and
will only be in a component, to put it there and leave it.
If it may be used by multiple components, then you could
consider passing it as a var to each. However your component then
is limited because it cannot be contained in a new component
without the new component also exposing this variable to get the
data down to its children. Thus the problem with passing data down
a composition pattern. Add to that the need to get another variable
to a component that is now deep in a composition pattern.
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