Is there a way to have the seekbar cover the entire slide and layer timeline?

Hi Darlene,

If you don't allow seeking on the layer, the timeline/seekbar overall time is for the base slide and the layers - but it's not going to restart when visiting the layers or add the additional time for the layer(s). 

Hi Tricia,

The seekbar is for the entire slide, not just each piece of audio. You could look at having each audio element on it's own slide or slide layer. If you're using the slide layers you'll want to enable seeking on the layer than too and then you'd see the seekbar restart. 

Let me know if that helps!

Hi, Ashley. 

I want to keep the one slide/layer approach that I currently have. I think I found another workaround (by reading this thread (https://community.articulate.com/discussions/building-better-courses/how-to-combine-and-play-audio-files-in-succession). I set a trigger on the 2nd audio clip to play the media (audio 2) when media (audio 1) completes. I think this works. Going to test it on other slides/layers. 

SCRATCH THAT ^: The workaround above did not restart the seekbar for each new audio clip. It seems adding a new layer for each audio clip may be what I need to do. Thanks for suggestion. 

Hi Tricia,

Correct - the seekbar will be for the entire slide as it plays through, so indicating that a media clip should play at a set time won't restart the seekbar. 

Perhaps a custom seekbar would work for you? Look at some of the ideas here if you're looking for something more customized than the layer set up:

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