Stopping looping audio

Karen,

One way to fix this is to make a duplicate of "Slide A" without the audio.  Once the user makes the first choice, you can use the Slide Properties in Presenter to send them to the "Duplicate Slide A" instead of the real one.  Using the Menu editor, you can hide the "Duplicate Slide A" on the menu panel and it is transparent to the learner that you've sent them to another slide.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm using Storyline so I'm not sure if the answer translates and how it would affect the conditions and variables all ready built into Slide A. 

You can create a variable to track whether or not it is the user's first visit to the slide. And then create a trigger that will pause the audio if it is not the first visit. Something like this......

I created a new variable called "RepeatVisit" with a default value of False. Then added a trigger to the slide to adjust the variable to True when the timeline starts (so basically, after the first visit the variable will be set to True already).

I then added a trigger to the slide to pause the audio if the variable is equal to true (to prevent the audio from playing on repeat visits).

A couple tips to note - You'll want the pause media trigger listed first before the variable adjustment so it doesn't pause the media on your first visit like so....

You'll also want to make sure that your audio is not right at zero on the timeline (so it starts at a fraction of a second in....I've found at zero it will not always pause the media).

Hope that is helpful.

Thank you so much for the explanation and screen shots.  It seems exactly what I want it to do.  I knew it had to be a true/false variable but with a deadline looming, I didnt have time for exploration.

Thanks again.

Hi Karen! Glad that Cristina was able to assist you here and thanks for popping back in with an update.

Looks like I don't have something right. 

Here are the items I've set.

So I set the triggers as shown

And

And ended up with

I seem to match what Cristina did but it's not working. And I did move my audio over .25 seconds as suggested.

Any suggestions?

Looks like you might need to edit the trigger that is setting repeat visit to True. From your last screenshot, it appears as though there is a condition on there to set it to true IF it is equal to true. You'd want to remove that condition....

If you'd be willing to post your .story file, I'd be happy to take a look at it.

Thanks, I will give that a try.  I saw that line when I was trying to figure it out but it didn't register. 

Glad that Cristina was able to assist you here Karen

Yes, the solution work and in the way of all e-learning, the SME now wants to drop the audio on that slide sequence.

Thanks Karen for the update.

Seems I spoke too soon or messed something up that I'm not seeing

In the attached file are two scenes.  In scene one I get audio issue to work plus a counting loop. 

 In the second scene is my actual file.  The counting loop works but I can't get the audio to work. 

I'[d appreiate any help.  Thanks

Hi Karen,

I see you also posted this here, and Michael has offered you a solution. 

In reference to the above.  I've gotten the initial audio to stop when the user goes back to Slide A to make another suggestion (thanks to everyone for their help).

Now I'd like to add a second audio that says "Make another selection" when the user does loop back.  I've tried setting different conditions and can get other things to work or not work but cant quite get this right.  Any help is appreciated.

Hi Karen,

You may want to share the updated file here with the conditions that you've set up - but I'm betting it's going to depend on a variable that checks whether or not this is the second view before playing the audio.