Music while playing slideshow

[Zedd8888]

Hi all,

i'd like to play a complete music-file while displaying a slideshow...but the moment the page changes, the music stops :(
Is there a way to do it??

Best ,
Zedd

[FATALES]

In Nyx probably not.

Powerpoint - YES :D

[Zedd8888]

And TeaseMe?

[philo]

And TeaseMe?

I don't think so for TeaseMe as the music would stop on change of page.
GuideMe it is possible, you would need a single page that played the music file and use java script and a timer to change the image.

[Zedd8888]

Thanx philo!

Javascript is too complicated for me.... so i'll try to change my tease

Best,
Zedd

[Shattered]

Not ideal, but you could request that the user open a link to your music. That's about as good as it gets.

[Ambossli]

you can use teasme and let's say start the audio on the first page for 30 sec and then on the next page the audio starts at 30 sec and so on

is not optimal but should work

GuideMe it is possible, you would need a single page that played the music file and use java script and a timer to change the image.

That should 1 or 2 lines maybe someone can provide it

[PlayfulGuy]

Hi all,

i'd like to play a complete music-file while displaying a slideshow...but the moment the page changes, the music stops :(
Is there a way to do it??

Best ,
Zedd

This idea intrigued me so I threw together this working sample for Guideme that does exactly what you want. It includes a simple random slideshow with background music, and another example showing sequential images with background music. I've made it easy enough to customize and (hopefully) put in enough comments for you to figure it out.

The zip file was too big to attach, so here's a Mega link.
Slideshow With Music.zip

In the XML file you'll find three pages defined. The first is named "start" and just provides you with a description and a couple buttons you can use to choose the slideshow you want to see. The other two are the slideshow pages.

Something I thought of after uploading it:

If you look at the code for the SlideshowWithMusic page the first few lines of it look like this:

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    <Page id="SlideshowWithMusic">
      <!-- In the following Audio element the target="start" attribute makes Guideme go back
            to the start page when the music ends -->
      <Audio id="Music/*.mp3" target="start" />

In the last line there if you change target="start" to target="SlideshowWithMusic" you will get a page that just keeps looping, starting another random song and playing the random slideshow until you click the End button.

The same can be done with the sequential images one of course.

Enjoy!

PG

[Zedd8888]

Cool - i'll try it ASAP!!

[Pseudonym]

Thanks PlayfulGuy! This looks very useful.

I have a question. Do you think it's possible to break the loop and go to different page after x repetitions rather than using a button?

[philo]

Simplified version of the play a random picture
The main difference is the timer is set as xml not javascript
It play a random audio file then changes the image every 5 to 11 seconds
When the audio finishes it loops back to the same page and plays another random audio file
In the folder where the xml file is you need a slideshow folder and within that an audio folder and an images folder.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Tease id="37050" scriptVersion="v0.1">
	<MediaDirectory>slideshow</MediaDirectory>
	<Pages>
		<Page id="start">
			<Text></Text>
			<Image id="images/*" />
			<Audio id="audio/*" target="start"/>
			<Timer seconds="5" imageId="images/*" onTriggered="timer1()" id="imgchng"/>
		  <javascript><![CDATA[
			function timer1() {
				guide.resetTimer("imgchng", "(5..11)");
			}
			]]></javascript>	
		</Page>
	</Pages>
</Tease>