Playing specific sounds on a slide

I'm new to Keynote 08, but familiar with PowerPoint where I can insert sounds (mainly language samples) on a slide and play each one manually by clicking on its icon. This is important if audience members ask to hear one sound again, or hear it compared to another. Is there a way to 'click and play' like this, free of the build order, in Keynote? I've looked, but not found.

Thanks, Brian. It's good to know not to waste more time trying to find how to achieve it. But it's a serious omission in Keynote, and I'll add my voice to no doubt lots of others at the Apple feedback page.

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Playing audio sound when slide is clicked

I have a button on my first slide which links to the third slide, and I want to play a sound as soon as the third slide is opened. How do I do this?

Drag the sound file to the third slide. Select the speaker icon for it, and in the Build Inspector, set its Build In to "Start Audio". Click the More Options button to show the Build Order drawer, and use the dropdown menu to set the build to start "Automatically after transition".

Sound Effects DURING Slide Transitions?

Essentially, is there a way to add a sound clip to play between slides, during the transition?
I'm creating a Keynote presentation that will be exported into Quicktime with hyperlink-activated transitions, and would like a specific sound to play during the 'Magic Move' transition. When the sound is imported into the first slide, once the transition begins, it fades out and stops. Yet if I drag and drop the sound file between the slides, it just creates a blank slide with the sound effect icon in the middle.
Any ideas?

Nope, unless you have a soundtrack on your show, there's no other way to have sound during a transition.

Problem, trying to play many sound files

hello,
I did not find a specific answer to my question in most of the archives and so I am posting here.
my problem is that I have to play a sound when mouse moves over an object and another sound when the same object is clicked.
there are many such items on the screen and so it is expected that when the mouse entered from the mouse listener is fired, the sound must play.
but what really happens is that when the mouse moves over the first object the sound plays all right. but there is no sound played when the mouse click happens.
I have properly loaded the sound files and I am sure that the code is right.
infact the major thing that has frustrated me is that if I move the mouse on an opject (an icon) the sound is properly played. and if I wait for a long time and then move the mouse on another icon the other sound is played as well. but if I move the mouse quickly from one object to another no sound is played for the second object. or if I click the mouse on an icon after a long holt even the click sound playes.
what could be the problem. why is it that sound only play when the actions are done after long haults?
is it an issue of java performance. should I try to do the sound playing stuff in different threads for each icon's mouse events?
I also tried to stop the file on the mouse exit method to make sure that there is no sound left playing.
this game is depending a lot on mouse movements with sounds and so I have to get the sounds playing at the same time mouse moves over the objects.
I use the audioClip to load my sounds with the method in the applet class.
I really don't know abt the latest java media api and will like to know if that is what I must use for my task or audioClip is ok with me.
thanks
Krishnakant.

I dont know exactly, but I dont know if applets support various files at one time.
Have your tried to do that with javax.media or with javax.sound.sampled?
Or could your post the code?
R. Hollenstein

Is there a way to play a song for several slides within a larger keynote presentation?

is there a way to play a song for several slides within a larger keynote presentation?

Place the sound file on the slide and use Builds to change the images during the sound files duration.
Inspector > Builds > choose an effect
Delivery: by paragraph
more options > start build manually or,
use automatically; and select a delay (the amount of time the slides show). For example; if you have a 30 second sound file and 10 images, enter a 3 second delay.

Mail app no longer plays QuickTime sound files.

Before upgrading to Mountain Lion, I was able to play sound files attached to mail within the app.
In other words, if someone sent me a sound file, it would appear as a QuickTime sound within the body of the email and I could play it.
That was a very nice feature.
Now sound files will not play within the mail window. Instead, I need an external player such as QuickTime Player or iTunes.
How can I get that feature back?

What specific sound file types will not play as Mail attachments in Mountain Lion?
I just sent an .m4r (ringtone), mp3, and .m4a (iTunes aac music) files as Mail attachments. The first appeared as an icon that played via QuickLook from within Mail. The second two appeared as black, QuickTime styled, embedded music play bar attachments. They played back flawlessly.
Have you installed any application recently that may have hi-jacked the default QuickTime audio playback? It would have done so silently, or popped up a dialog requesting to perform the hi-jack on a list of music file formats.
You may have to select each particular audio file format in Finder Get Info and restore QuickTime in the Open with section on that panel.

I placed my ipad on top of my CPU with a music playing,i heard a crack on the sound and when i checked it,i can no longer hear a sound playing on my ipad.i tried to check place a headphone its still playing a sound but when i pull it out,wont play at all.

i placed my ipad on top of my CPU with a music playing,i heard a crack on the sound and when i checked it,i can no longer hear a sound playing on my ipad.i tried to check place a headphone its still playing a sound but when i pull it out,wont play at all.

I don't know if this will work but it's worth a try. I wonder if somehow you ended up with a short inside of your iPad. Give the things below are trying to see if that helps. Good luck.
Try a Restart.
Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button for a few seconds until the red "slide to power off" slider appears, and then slide the slider. Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button until the Apple logo appears.
Resetting your settings
You can also try resetting all settings. Settings>General>Reset>Reset All Settings. You will have to enter all of your device settings again.... All of the settings in the settings app will have to be re-entered. You won't lose any data, but it takes time to enter all of the settings again.
Resetting your device
Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button together for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears. Apple recommends this only if you are unable to restart it.
Or if this doesn't work and nobody else on the blog doesn't have a better idea you can contact Apple.
Here is a link to their contacts with most of the information below.
http://www.apple.com/contact/

Javascript doesn't play() embedded sound

This is a question about the PDF specification regarding how to use the javascript API
to play a sound object.
Specifically, why in my basic example is the javascript able to see the sound,
but can't play() it?
I have a test PDF illustrating my problem at
http://www.affexion.net/test/PDF/test-scriptsound.pdf
This is a stripped down example.
The sound is referenced from a simple annotation
on the left. Double-clicking it plays the sound as expected.
On the right is a button which when activated is supposed to
execute a javascript.
<< /S /JavaScript /JS ( console.show(); try {this.sounds[0].play(); } catch(e) { console.println(e.toString()); } console.println(this.sounds[0].name); ) >>
I see the console open up, and I see it print the name of the sound "mySound",
but I don't get the sound played.
Do I need to do something in my javascript before I call this.sounds[0].play?
Is there some other mistake in the way I have the sound object embedded and referenced?
Thanks very much for any help.

In followup, I have been able to accomplish what I wanted:
use an embedded javascript to play an embedded sound
For future readers, my example is (temporarily) at:
http://www.affexion.net/test/PDF/sound-by-script.pddf
How I did it:
interaction of 2 components, the script and the (named) sound
The script object looks like:
<< /S /JavaScript
/JS ( console.show\(\); var s=this.getSound\("mySound"\); s.play\(\); )
>>
The named sound "mySound"
The catalog needs an entry pointing to a name dictionary, like:
1 0 obj << /Type /Catalog /Names XX 0 R >> endobj
The name dictionary has an entry /Sound like
XX 0 obj << /Sound XY 0 R >> endobj
Then the actual name mapping:
XY 0 obj << /Names [ (0xFEFFmySound) XZ 0 R ] >> endobj
With the sound object at:
XZ 0 obj << /Type /Sound /Length NNNNN >> stream...endstream endobj
Key point: the string object (0xFEFFmySound) needs to be unicode-16 encoded
with the first 2 bytes being FEFF.
That was a real pitfall for me.
Now that whole setup actually works.
Sadly, though - I looked all through the PDF specification and
in section 7.7.4 Name Dictionary, I don't see any Sound key.
If anyone could explain how that sequence of Name dictionary to
sound name is described in the specification, I'd appreciate it.

Specify audio file to play on sound events...

How about add an option to let us specify exactly which audio file to play on sound events?

but i want to be able to use a sound event specific to lightroom and i dont want to change my windows sound scheme to do that

Game pauses upon playing a sound

I have a class in my flash project called "Resource" which I have designated to contain all the external files outside the flash documnent. When I play a sonud from this class, it seems that my program pauses until the sound is fully loaded, and then every time it plays after that it doesn't lag at all. Would there be a way to load the sound at a different time, i.e. at the beginning of the program, rather than on the fly? Here is the code for Resource.as and how I play the sound.
Class "Resource" (I cut out unimportant stuff)
[code]
package {
    public final class Resource
        [Embed (source="/Resources/Sound.mp3" )]
        public static const Sound:Class;
        public function Resource()
[/code]
And this is how I call the sound and play it:
[code]
private var soundCoin:Sound = new Sound();
public function User() {
soundCoin = new Resource.Sound;
[/code]
And, obviously, I play the sound using soundCoin.play();
I might just not have the right setup, because I sort of improvised what I was doing. If this method is inefficient, I would love for people to give suggestions.
Thanks

How are you using this or even getting this to happen? My experience is that any Symbol that references a Sound where you don't check "Embed on Frame N" (where n is the default embedding frame in your Publish settings) will give the error "Not a valid sound." Sorry, I don't have the specific error number, as I have that box checked whenever I need an embedded sound .
The only way I can think that this could possibly happen is if your Symbol that references the Class is before the frame specified in your publish settings (or is the Main document Class). But my experience is that Classes that load before the N frame will embed everything they need on that frame regardless of settings.
Can you provide more details on what you did? Honestly, I'd love to be able to do on purpose what you did by accident. Having sounds that don't play immediately would be a small price to pay to have more flexibility about where the definition is embedded for the project I'm working on.
In case it wasn't clear from the above, I thought I'd restate: what you are seeing shouldn't be happening. The file should be compiled on whatever frame is the default compile frame in your swf, and should play immediately when you call play. That it doesn't says that somehow you've stumbled into an edge case.
FWIW, I find that using the Embed metadata as you have with Flash Pro is extremely unreliable--often part of the sound will not get compiled into the swf, so the sound will cut off early. You will probably find yourself switching to making a swc from embedded library sounds in the end because of this problem (which is what I'm doing).
Update:
I just recreated the error you should be seeing with that box unchecked:
ArgumentError: Error #2068: Invalid sound.
at flash.media::Sound/play()
You can do a web search for more information on this issue.

How to add a sound on some slides?

How to add a sound on some slides? Not only one slide and not all the slideshow?
Is it possible? It must be!

Keynote is not Powerpoint and vice versa. The way music is currently handled in Keynote has been explained. If you wish music to play across only a few contiguous slides, you make them a seperate file and hyperlink to them using an object for the hyperlink.
Once built, and properly used, the transition from one set of slides to the next set is smooth and the audience will not know (or care) if there is one, two or fifty hyperlinked files behind the curtain. What they see is the content, the message and the effective use of a visuals to backup your actual live presentation. The files you create are not the presentation, you and all you bring to the audience are the presentation. You are simply using a tool to assist youself to help your audience better understand your message.
Using Keynote is found by many presenters to be an easier application to use. If you find Powerpoint easier, by all means use it. Your message will be basically the same to your audience, if done properly.
Feedback is a good way to ask for changes but given the rate of change, learning those few simple workarounds and using them effectively will help you use Keynote (or Powerpoint - yes there are limitations there too) to easily put your point across. Your audience will sense your frustrations as a distraction so it is better to accept the few limitations and make your presentation shine in spite of them.
Good luck.

How to add sound in each slide of powerpoint 2013

Hi,
I want to add sound in each slide of my powerpoint presentations in 2013.Please let us know how to do these things.
Regards
Pradeep

Hi Pradeep,
I would like to confirm that how exactly you want PowerPoint 2013 to play a sound. For example, add sound to your PowerPoint slide transitions, add background music, or play a sound during an Animation.
To play a sound during a transition, go to the Transitions tab on the ribbon, apply a transition, then click the drop-down for
Sound, and choose one from the list.
To add audio in the background, you can go to the Insert tab on the ribbon and click the
Audio button, choosing Online Audio... to search a clip media on Office.com or select a sound from your computer by selecting
Audio on My PC...
To add sound effects to an animation, you can refer to this article:https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Add-sound-effects-to-an-animation-7d0e2d70-caca-495e-a738-a8257474605e
Hope it helps.
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Since updating to iOS7.0.4, my iPhone 4S rarely plays text sounds or in-app sounds. Also volume control is no longer functioning using side buttons. When can we expect a fix Apple?

Have done recovery, reset settings, reset content and settings. Nothing changes the fact that its 7.0.4.
Ringtone sound works. Can adjust ringtone sound in settings but it wont play text sounds from in settings. Definitely appears to be a firmware bug.
Can someone from Apple ackowledge this issue please and advise how long till it is fixed? I am missing important texts that i need to be recieving.

Hi mgoksoy,
Cheers for your reply.
It doesn't appear to affect every 4S. I don't know if theres specific batches it affects or maybe its location based, but i have a friend who has the same phone as me and theirs did exactly the same thing only after doing the firmware update. I'm pretty confident it is a bug. Looking around on google, it seems like its happening to a lot of other 4S users.
I have done a settings reset, didn't fix it. Did a settings and content reset, didn't fix it. Did a full recovery back to the backup i did when i first purchased it, didn't fix it. None of these things changes the firmware.
I am pretty appalled that apple would release a firmware upgrade with such an obvious problem for 4S users. Did they not test it first? Now i am finding multiple texts from people asking me things hours after they messaged me because the sounds don't work. Not impressed.

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Is this using a specific app or apps? Not all apps support video out over AirPlay, the option is up to the app developer.

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Not sure if this is the right category. My Ipad speaker seems to not be playing certain sounds, for instance on the song Norwegian Wood the sitar is near silent. Have to put my ear right against the speaker to even hear it. I've tried a few different versions of the songs on different sites and in different apps but it's always the same, and it appears to be like this on other songs. Any help? Is there something I can adjust or is it in need of repairs? It's still under warranty. Thanks

Assuming that you are playing the songs in the Music app and not some third party app, you should probably have the iPad evaluated at an Apple Store. But before you do that, try this. Then see what happens.
Quit the music app completely and reboot the iPad. Go to the home screen first by tapping the home button. Double tap the home button and the recents tray will appear with all of your recent apps displayed at the bottom. Tap and hold down on any app icon until it begins to wiggle. Tap the minus sign in the upper left corner of the app that you want to close. Tap the home button or anywhere above the task bar.
Reboot the iPad by holding down on the sleep and home buttons at the same time for about 10-15 seconds until the Apple Logo appears - ignore the red slider if it appears on the screen - let go of the buttons. Let the iPad start up.

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