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Hello, Karl,

I have no idea if X3 is capable of doing the following, and quite likely I am (yet again) trying to do the impossible with X3  :upside_down:.

I wish to use the Audio Player Plugin on one of my X3 sites.  I note your recommendation to:

Only include audio if you really need to. Audio on websites is not considered good practice and will hog the bandwidth of your visitors.

I will have a warning to the users, before they enter that gallery (folder), that it contains audio and that they might wish to turn their volume down, or mute their speakers if the audio will disturb other people around them  :slight_smile:.

The audio file that I wish to use is just over 18-minutes long, and I wish to use it on only 1 of my galleries HERE and its sub-galleries (WARNING TO YOU: Lower your speakers  :sunglasses:), not on my entire X3 site.

While experimenting, when I place that MP3 file in the /custom/audio folder, I can navigate to & from all the sub-galleries and that audio file continues to play continously with no interruptions, which is exactly how I wish the audio to play.

But again, I wish for that audio file to play only when users end up in that 1 specific gallery & all of its sub-galleries, and not when the user is outside of that 1 specific gallery.

Looking at this:

You can also upload mp3 files directly into your pages, in which case they will play when the specific page is visited.

...when I disable that audio file in the /custom/audio folder and instead have it located in that 1 specific gallery that I want it to play from, the audio file plays fine, but only while I'm in that 1 actual gallery... when I go into any of the sub-galleries (folders) in that gallery with the audio file, the audio stops, which is exact the way X3 says it works:

in which case they will play when the specific page is visited.

So it would seem that in order for this to work for me, I would need that MP3 file to be located in X3's default /custom/audio folder, but somehow tell X3 to play that audio file only when the user is in that 1 specific gallery and/or any of its sub-galleries, and nowhere else.

Am I (yet again) wishing for X3 to do the impossible, or would there be a simple way of accomplishing this?

Thank you in advance & have yourself a great day.

Regards,
John

Hello, Karl, thanks for getting back to me.

2.  Global audio DISABLED, can be enabled on a per-folder basis.

This is what I will go with.

upload audio to /custom/audio, keep it disabled by default (from Settings > Audio)

I've disabled (unchecked) the audio in global Settings > Plugins > Audio Player

and then enable the audio for each folder where you want the audio to play. This isn't too complicated, as you simply need to enable the audio for each page (subfolder) where you want it enabled.

This is where I'm having a problem, even before I initially created this post, as I can't see any place within individual pages (subfolders) where I can enable audio:


Unless you mean for me to enable the audio on the individual folders using a different method?

Thanks in advance.

Completely understood, no problem.

I ended up just placing an obvious (to visitors) label on that gallery, allowing them to click the label to listen to the audio.

Have yourself a great day.

pinkrabbit1357 wrote: I have some pages that contain videos only and each video has its own track so I can not have audio in these video pages. I tried to disable the audio in the page JSON but didnt work so I found a workaround: download a 1 second "no sound" mp3 then upload it to your page gallery, that way this "no sound" mp3 overwrites the default sample mp3 and does not interfere with my video tracks. hope this helps.

If I understand you correctly, you have some pages that contain videos, but you do not want those pages to have any audio when those videos are playing, is that correct?

If so, there is a product that I use called VideoProc, with which you can open video files, and then extract only the video to a new video file without any audio.  The result is an identical video, but with no audio at all  :relaxed:.  Although I have the paid version of VideoProc, I believe that their free version can remove the audio as well.

Don't know if that product is of any use to you.

Regards,
John

pinkrabbit1357 wrote: My dilemma was that: I did not want to disable audio globally because I only wanted to disable the default audio in my video pages when videos are playing as I have my own audio in the video clips. Since I could not find a way to disable the default audio per folder/page, I used the workaround mentioned above. maybe this workaround could help someone who has the same dilemma as I did. 

Understood.  Nice work-arfound... I'll have to try to remember your trick in case in the future I need to do the same.