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Re: managing multiple audio with one toggle button

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 03:14:16 GMT

Hi Marie,

This is a function that I use to stop all audio on the stage. You should be able to modify it to suit your need. What you have to watch-out for is that when you toggle (play) there is a chance for all the audio on the stage to play. Probably you will have to check the 'currentTime' property as well. Muting is not a solution as it will continue to play the sound silently.

function stopAllAudio(){

$.each(sym.$("audio"), function(index, value) {

if(!$(this)[0].paused){

$(this)[0].pause();

$(this)[0].currentTime = 0;

}

});

}

your solution would look something like this. You might require a global variable to record the playback status. Since you have multiple audios relying on its status may not be a good idea. You will have to tweak this.

var isPaused = false;

function toggleAllAudio(){

isPaused = !isPaused;

$.each(sym.$("audio"), function(index, value) {

if(isPaused && $(this)[0].paused){

$(this)[0].play();

else

$(this)[0].pause();

});

}

reference: HTML Audio/Video DOM Reference

Re: managing multiple audio with one toggle button

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 02:57:07 GMT

Hey Marie,

I tried approaching this from a few different angles and unfortunately couldn't get it to work Bumping to the top in case anyone smarter than me has a solution...

Sarah

Edit: HA! HAHAHA! Take that Javascript. I think I found an answer...

Try this:

myAud=document.getElementsByTagName("audio");

for(var i=0; i<myAud.length; i++)

myAud[i].muted=true;

This will get all of the documents audio elements and mute them - will setting up another button with muted=false work for the toggle?

Sarah

managing multiple audio with one toggle button

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 19:42:24 GMT

My turn today to ask a question.

I have a complicated animation in which i have several sound FX that start at different points on the timeline. I would like to have a toggle button for all sound FX. I created an array and I can stop all the sounds without any problem but I am not sure how I would then toggle all the sounds back so they could become playable again but without playing since I do not want to play them all at the same time.

I though about using the mute toggle also but it seems that you cannot mute a sound that is not playing if that makes sense.