2009/9/16 Dave Barton <[email protected]> > Yes, I know this one has been asked a million times before, but the > solutions are always somewhat "hit & miss". > > Another user contacted me asking for advice about playing audio > throughout an entire Impress presentation with version 3.1.1. I referred > him to the relevant section of the current Impress User Guide, namely: > Chapter 9, pages 11-12, where it says it is possible to play a sound > throughout the presentation by: > > <Q> > 1.Select the slide where you want the sound to start and go to the > Slide Transition pane. > > 2. In the Modify transition section, select the entry "Other Sound" > from the Sound drop-down menu. > > 3. Select the "Loop until next sound" checkbox if you want the sound > to restart once it is finished. > > Cautionary Note: Do not click the Apply to all button, otherwise > your selected sound will restart at every slide > </Q> > > The other user followed the instructions to the letter and could not get > the audio to play continuously throughout the entire presentation. Being > unsure as to the cause of his issue, I tested this with 3.1.1 on 2 > different OS, on 6 different machines, with both existing and newly > created presentations. Each time the result was exactly the same, in > that the audio (regardless of length) played to it's conclusion, but did > not loop until the end of the presentation. > > Can anyone point me to an example of presentation where this works? > Unless I am completely overlooking something here (not impossible), I > propose to file a 3.1.1 bug report and request the Authors Project to > add a note to the user guide that point 3 (loop checkbox) above does not > work. > > Please cc. any replies to: [email protected] > > TIA > > Dave > > Could it be that "Loop until next sound" coupled with the fact that there is no *next* sound is causing the behaviour you are seeing? What happens if you have a [dummy] last slide with a short & quiet tone "attached" to it?
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