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I am doing an interactive that needs to have a looping audio always on in the backround. The intereractive is a selection of slides activated by buttons (keystrokes) How do I program the audio file to stay always on? Further, if I have say 10 buttons of which any could be pressed in whatever sequence the user decides. Is there any easy way to allow switching between slide images / videos without having to wait for the home screen to come back up? Thanks
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    RokuLyndon


    Does the audio need to be playing when videos are playing as well? If so, then a custom script will be the best way to do this. If you're just using images and audio then you can have audio playing in the video or images zone, and then create an images only  zone for the image files.
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    Hanna


    Great the zones work as you said. Next challenge is the move from one image to another without a return to the main menu first?
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    RokuLyndon


    Does each button only activate/play one file? And, you want to play that one file no matter which file is playing?
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    Hanna


    Yes currently only one file / slide being launch by each button. We would like (if possible) to have next file launched immediately on a button press even if a file is currently being displayed. Each file will have a timeout assigned with a return to main screen at the end. The timeouts will be variable because text content on the slides is not the same so we will assign a reasonable amount of time to each for reading.

    Now if a user launches a file and does not want to read the whole thing they will invariably press another button. If they don't get a response then the thinking is they'll loose interest and walk away. So it's important that they can redirect to another selection.

    The reason for the 48 buttons is that each button is a physical tactile artifact that the user engages with when they launch the slide. In the future we hope to be able to change the content to video or slide show files instead of slides but thats down the road as the video content developement is a ways off yet. The individual slides are a starting point for now.

    Again, music in backround always on, or launches as a loop to timeout event.
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    RokuLyndon


    Ok, this can be done using a script....and that would allow us to do the audio in the background, and convert the images to video files for faster load times.
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    Hanna


    Great Lyndon, Needless to say i'll need some assistance with said script. Hope you can help.
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