Getting background audio to play across entire EPUB document (specifically iBook)

I can't seem to get this working, perhaps it's not possible, but I'm trying to get a background audio track that the user can play/pause from any page they're currently viewing. I've got the audio and buttons working—with it all setup on a master page—but it restarts with every page turn.
Any ideas? I'm hoping it's just a matter of setting it up the right way, and not that it's impossible currently.

I don't think that that is possible. I think audio is page-specific. This is also true in PDF files and SWF files as well.

Similar Messages

Stumped! Can't Get Some Audio To Play.

I have some files that I converted with Visual Hub and I used their Apple TV 5.1 encoding. I have my Apple TV hooked up to my TV through HDMI. I recently moved and now no mater what I can't get the audio to play for those files. I have audio when I go through the menus and if I listen to music or podcasts. But these files that have DD 5.1 all of a sudden don't play. I've tried everything I could think of. Can anyone help?

Same TV?
t
Not all process DD5.1, but if they don't there's often a second stereo rack in files which will play.
Is DD out enabled in settings on AppleTV?
AC

Captivate 7 HTML5 background audio not playing

The issue seems to be related to a slide with background audio that plays after a Random Question slide. I can see the playhead moving but the audio is muted. It seems to be a bug with Captivate 7.
To duplicate the issue, create a new Captivate 7 project, insert 2 Blank slides, each with Background Audio. Create a question pool with 2 multiple choice questions and insert a Random Question slide between the 2 previously created Blank slides. When playing in HTML5 from the start (F11), the second background audio does play (is muted).
I'm using Chrome in Windows 7.

Sreekanth,
I think I've found a workaround for this issue. I’m finding when audio is placed on each question slide in the pool, the audio on subsequent slides play. The audio on the question slides has to be different from audio used on non-question slides (but all the question slides can use the same audio). Also, the question slide audio can be a very short and silent piece of audio, so nothing is heard on the question slide itself.
Bruce

I can't get background audio to work in garage band 1.3 ios6.1 .also no options in settings to turn it on?

I can't get background audio to work in garage band 1.3 iOS 6.1 also no option in settings to turn on or off?

I had the same problem, try this:
In your home directory, go to Library/Caches/
(make sure you are in the library in your home directory, not the library at the root level of the hard disk).
and remove this file: com.apple.audiounits.cache
You can drag it to your desktop if you like or throw it away.
Then relaunch garage band, it will rescan all audio units.
If you have the Kontakt audio unit installed in YourHardDiskName/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components it should recognize it and include it in your list. You can toss that cache file any time you want Garage Band to rescan your audio units.
I had a problem with Kontakt on an upgrade that broke it, GarageBand saw it and put Kontakt on its list of broken Audio Units, it would never load it after that... after a new rescan, it was fine.
Good luck

Cant get background audio on menu to work right...

Hi Ya'll,
First I really appreciater all the help I've been getting here, my project is near complete, and I couldnt have done it without your help.. THANK-YOU!
ok, last thing I need to do before I render out my DVD project..
I've got several menus, each with several buttons. On each menu what I WANT to happen is when the menu is displayed,
a background audio plays until a button is hit, which sends the user to the destination linked to that button.
What I did, was, on the menu in question's properties/motion page I linked the audio "curly thing" to the .wav file I want used as a menu background audio... works fine....until you roll over one of the buttons, ( using the mouse, in the preview Mode) at which timethe audio starts all over from the beginning. It does this everytime you roll the mouse over any of the buttons...
Will this happen everytime a user uses the remote to go from one button to another?
Is there any way to just have the background audio play constant until a button is actually selected/"pushed"?
Thanks
CB

on the menu in question's properties/motion page I linked the audio "curly thing" to the .wav file
Tip for the day: the curly thing is called a "pick whip." Mylenium, was that original to adobe and specifically to after effects?

How to get flash audio to play when published to godaddy

I'm trying to move all my iWeb websites to Godaddy, but can't get flash audio to work playing my mp3 on the site. With iDisk it's easy, just install the flash player in there, but how do I get it to my godaddy server and write the iDisk address into the widget code. How do I do it when using godaddy as the new host?

Download the folder of assets for your flash player from iDisk. Get there from the Finder Go menu - iDisk/My iDisk/Web/Sites.
Drag the folder onto your desktop and then upload it to the server using an FTP app like the freeware Cyberduck or your hosting service's file manager.
Enter the new URLs to the files in snippet code.

Background Audio not playing in Captivate 4

I imported a background audio track to my Adobe Captivate project, and I can see it in the background audio menu, however, when I preview or publish the project, it does not play. When I am in the import menu, it plays, but only there. I have done this many times before without issue. Any ideas?

Hi there
I am not sure if I understood the problem correctly. I tried to add a background audio to a test project and it worked fine for me in preview and publish.
When you say "I can see it in the background audio menu" are you meaning the following?
Audio->Background Audio... ==> Audio Background Dialog opens up and the audio track is shown properly. In library, the use count of this audio is non-zero and when you right click on the audio and select usage, "Project" is listed as one of the users.
When you say "When I am in the import menu, it plays, but only there", which import menu are you taking about?
Can't the audio be played from the library preview or from audio properties dialog or from Audio Background dialog?
Do you have this problem with any project that you are creating or is the problem happening in one particular project only? If it is only a particular project, can you share the CP project?
Cheers
Siva

[Solved] Difficulty getting digital audio to play in all applications

This is probably a noobish question...
My motherboard supports digital audio out via S/PDIF cable (optical), as well as standard analog audio. I have a stereo receiver that I've plugged my optical cable into.
When I go to systemsettings > Multimedia > Phonon > Audio Playback, I put the "HDA Intel S/PDIF Digital" device on top and clicked Test. I could hear the test tone (playback source is PCM).
However, if I go to play an MP3 or whatever, I have to go into the settings for each application and tell it to use that particular device. Some applications (such as Firefox) do not have obvious settings for audio playback. Is there a way to solve the problem once and for all (tell the audio system "send everything through the digital device all the time")?
(I read the relevant section of the wiki, but it is focused on getting sound out of your digital device, not making it the default.)
Any other advice or gotchas about using digital audio would also be appreciated.
Thanks!
Last edited by nathanb (2012-01-25 20:58:42)

Bah, I did a system update and rebooted and now digital out doesn't work at all!
[nathanb@nathanb-box ~] aplay -L
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
front:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, AD198x Analog
Front speakers
surround40:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, AD198x Analog
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, AD198x Analog
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, AD198x Analog
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, AD198x Analog
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, AD198x Analog
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, AD198x Digital
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
Devices don't seem to have changed...
[root@nathanb-box nathanb]# amixer | grep IEC -A 8
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
Capabilities: pvolume cvolume pswitch pswitch-joined cswitch cswitch-joined penum
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 39 Capture 0 - 31
Front Left: Playback 39 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] Capture 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [on]
Front Right: Playback 39 [100%] [0.00dB] [on] Capture 31 [100%] [12.00dB] [on]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Default PCM',0
Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
Playback channels: Mono
Mono: Playback [on]
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Playback Source',0
Capabilities: enum
Items: 'PCM' 'ADC1' 'ADC2' 'ADC3'
Item0: 'PCM'
Channels still seem to be there...
My .asoundrc looks the same as above. But just for fun, I also tried removing it and restarting alsa, with no change.
I'm testing output by going to systemsettings > Multimedia > Phonon and clicking the Test button with "HDA Intel (AD198x Digital)" selected. Nothing comes out through SPDIF, though it does play through analog (I have two separate pairs of headphones plugged in, one to the analog jack and one to a headphone amp plugged through the digital port) so I can tell which port the audio is coming from).
I've checked the hardware volume, and it appears to be in order. The amp is not reporting any audio signal on the optical port. I tried switching out the cable just to be paranoid, and still nothing. I believe this is a software problem.
Any ideas?

Stoping audio from playing across frames

hey ive got a site at www.trad-guitartuning.com, im playing a
series of mp3s one after another using an array and a function
which calls the member of the array "notes" out one after another
and plays them. The audio is loaded in externally using loadsound.
So basically there is a page with a movie clip on it containing a
bunch of buttons that each load a differnent set of mp3s in to the
array and then a movie clip opens up which has a play button to
play the array of mp3s just loaded. MY PROBLEM is that while the
array is playing, if you chose to move to another page or select
another set of mp3s to play then notes just keep repeating over and
over, ive tried clearInterval and stopallsounds() but they doesnt
seem to work. Any ideas ive attached the code or at least the
simpliest version of it below or you could check out the site.
Thanks in advance

I am using AS3.
If I place my audio into a MC and then place the MC into my
main
Timeline, how would I then get it to do what I need?
Thanks!!!!!
funkysoul wrote:
> if you using AS2, you can stop the sound using:
> stopAllSounds();
>
> Normally you shouldn't insert the sound into the
timeline, rather a better
> usage is to load it from the library and place it in a
movieclip which you can
> control more accurately.
>

How do I get XLR audio to play in two channels?

Hi
I have recently captured audio via an XLR port on my camera and was aware that it is was only on one channel but was hoping to copy the clip into another channel in FCE so it played back on both channels. For the life of me I cant work out hoe to do it because it shows up as two channels (one with silence) and wont let me seperate them.
Can anyone help?
Many Thanks
Adrian

You can do the following:
o - select the clip in the timeline
o - cmd-L to unlink video and audio
o - alt-L to separate the 2 stereo channels
o - select the empty audio channel and delete it
o - open the good audio channel in the viewer
o - change the Pan control to 0 (from -1 or 1)
o - now you can link back the audio and the video: select them both and cmd-L
Piero

Background audio that plays over multiple menus continously

How do i make a song for example, play in the background of the title menu and continue on even when a button is activated to go to another menu...
More specifically is this possible with a layered menu...

Welcome to the boards
It is not really possible, there will be a break in the music when moving from one menu to another and layered menus will not work for this either as a workaround.
You can try buttons over video, but even then music will not be smooth and you have no real way of "knowing" which point in the music is being jumped from/to.

I get no audio when playing Battlefield 3 on my HDTV

So I have my iMac connected to my Denon AVR-1910 via a Neet Mini Displayport to HDMI adapter the HDTV is connected to the AVR however when I try to play BF3 there's no sound. Where my AVR displays the current codex thats being used it says "MULTI IN".
Sound in windows worls (youtube etc) and even the test speakers function in the control panel works, I''ve configured speakers as 5.1 and the HDTV is ser as my main display.
Can anyone help me out with this?
Thanks
Michael

See:
* https://support.mozilla.org/kb/No+sound+in+Firefox
* https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Video+or+audio+does+not+play

Audio continues playing behind entire composition

I am trying to edit a single clip with multiple angles. I only want the audio that matches the current angle that's playing to be played, but the audio from the first angle plays behind every clip. How could I make it so that the only audio that can be heard is the audio of the current angle playing. I shortened each clip of each angle so that they aren't isn't displaying video behind each other (yet the audio continues).
I repeated myself a few times, so that I could hopefully word it where you guys could understand what I'm talking about here. This is only about my third time messing around in AE, sorry. =P

You could split the layer at each cut or you could set audio keyframes. It would be easiest if you used hold keyframes. Just press L to reveal the audio levels.
If it were me I'd do this kind of editing in Premiere Pro or FCP. You shouldn't use AE to manipulate or mix audio unless there's no other way.

HT4168 audio or video files in ePub document?

I'd like to know if we can insert audio or video files to Pages that will export to ePub format?
Thanks!

Here is me Googling for you:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4168
http://epubweekly.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/epub-using-apples-pages/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkcL9oq2IO4
http://www.macsage.com/how-to-produce-an-ebook-with-apples-pages-part-1/
http://www.macsage.com/how-to-produce-an-ebook-with-pages-%E2%80%93-part-2/
The last link is most pertinent.
Peter

Ipad background audio from video when multitasking

Hello.
This is a request if people can either feedback On their present experience or try this out themselves first and feedback.
I have an ipad 1. When ever i try to get background audio to play from video when multitasking in another app, eg safari, from any video app including plex, airvideo, vlc, and the original apple video app. All that occurs is that the icon changes to the ipod and a random song is played from my music library instead of the audio from the video i was watching. This does not matter if the video file is streamed or stored on the ipad itself.
There is one slight and occasional proviso to this, as at times if the video file is tagged in itunes as 'music' rather than 'movie' or 'tv show' etc then it does on occasions work, and on occasions youtube videos will play in the background. But most of the time these aspects also dont function int he background with the ipod icon instantly replacing which ever video app icon i tried to use in the background.
Now my sons iphone 4 manages to function correctly and always plays video in the background when multitasking.
I have asked this question before on this forum, with no response, so booked a visit to my local genius bar. Where they checked my ipad and agreed it wasnt working as ios should, then interestingly they attempted to do the same on an ipad 2 and it failed to work in exactly the same way. Their response was that this was obviously a fault of the ipad ios, possibly due to the ipad having a separate video app where as the iphone has video within its generic ipod app.
I did the usual by informing apple via of this bug through the feedback system, and requested that the genius bar do the same. But having thought about this, and failed to see any other users on this forum who are also puzzled at this lack of what i think is an important function, i wonder if this means that i am the only one who likes to listen to video when im browsing, so dont need it, or wether everyone elses ipads function as ios should do, and for some reason both my ipad, and the ipad 2 tested in the shop are at fault.
So can i request if others reading this can have a go to see if their ipad will play background audio from video when multitasking, or if the same problem occurs.
Thanks very much this is really appreciated.

Oops clicked the wrong button, I meant to click a 'helpful answer' as it hard to have a correct answer to such a question.
But thanks for the replies.
It looks like this is a bug in ios solely for the ipad, as it does work fine on the iphone although wonder which way the ipod touch will perform. interestingly it looks like i may also be in the minority of wishing to listen to video files as I browse:)
Which probably means apple may never get around to sorting it, as no one else uses the function.
Anyway thanks for the replies, if any one else wants to see the bug have a go and comment, i find it funny how I seem to be the only one to have found it to date.
R:)

Getting background audio to play across entire EPUB document (specifically iBook)

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for