Suggestion - not have audio begin automatically - layers

Hi Suzanne. Fortunately there's a straight-forward fix. If audio doesn't have a trigger determining when it plays, it'll rely on the timeline. To keep it from auto-playing, can I suggest a trigger for each layer/sound that indicates when it should start?

The audio doesn't need an actual button to begin then, but can wait for the trigger's condition to "fire," whether the audio should play because a variable changed, because an animation finished, or even because the timeline reached a certain point.

Your question about the slide master is a good one, but best I know would only apply to one specific audio file per trigger. I can see a few different possibilities, using a master slide trigger to change a variable that then activates a trigger on a slide containing a second trigger designed to play the audio when the variable changes, but the best implementation will probably depend on how many audio files you're anticipating as well as what's supposed to cause them to begin playing.