How to Autoplay Audio in Course to run on IPad
July 24, 2013 12:00 AM
does anyone know how to autoplay audio so that it will run automatically on an IPad?
I viewed the recorded podcast on adding audio, but the user has to click on something to get the audio to play.
We don't want that. We want the audio to play as soon as the screen loads. We have audio on every screen of our
course and that would be annoying to have to have the user click to hear it each time.
I had a thought about hiding the play code on my 'Next' arrow button that the user clicks to go to the next screen, but,
the audio file only plays on the screen you insert it into and since I am triggering the audio from the previous screen (by hiding it on the "next" arrow) but as it goes to the next screen it does not play the audio because the file was on the previous screen and not the current one... does that make sense?
Frustrating...
Discussion (7)
So far I haven't had to develop any courses for mobile apple products that have audio... so this may or may not be helpful... but if the audio plays when a user clicks a button, can you just put an action on the page that triggers On Show? That way when the page loads, the action to play the audio is triggered, thus removing the need to set the audio file itself to autoplay?
You will need to insert the audo into the page. from the properties ribbon of the audio select auto start. we hide the audio bar and hide the next button until the audio has completed. in order to do that we have added an action "OnDOneShow" "Next button" to the audio file. You also need to make sure the audio file is mp3 or mp4.
@mak95500 51309 wrote:
You will need to insert the audo into the page. from the properties ribbon of the audio select auto start. we hide the audio bar and hide the next button until the audio has completed. in order to do that we have added an action "OnDOneShow" "Next button" to the audio file. You also need to make sure the audio file is mp3 or mp4.
Way to miss the point of the whole conversation.
The answer is no on an iPad, unless someone has learned something new lately.
@krixquet 52318 wrote:
The answer is no on an iPad, unless someone has learned something new lately.
To make this possible, Lectora has to make significant adjustment to its architecture. E.g. Articulate Storyline can autoplay sound on iPad (you only have to hit "Play" once, before the course) through clever javascript magic.
I wonder if this code to turn on the volume of the sounds would work? This code plays an empty sound and therefore turns on the sounds so that the user doesn't have to click each time to turn them on?
Would I put this code in a run javascript action on an initial "Begin" button inside my course? Anyone think this could work?
here is the link to the code:
http://paulbakaus.com/tutorials/html5/web-audio-on-ios/
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