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Hi, can anyone help please with the following:

play player "This Sound" works fine, but play player "This Sound another" on card 2 -- or next card, brings up a black box containing the name of the audio file (and no sound).

So: Anyone know the correct syntax please?

Hi gyroscope,

this is not possible!
You can only "start" a player that is on the current card!

The trick is to group all your players in a stack and place this group on every card where you need them.
OR put all your players on a card in an invisible stack that is always available/open.


Hope that helps.


Best

Klaus

Hi Klaus

this is not possible!

It's just clicked why: no one wants a player playing a video that you can't see! But some people (like me) would want audio which you could hear without seeing the neat nest of audio players on a different card... I wonder if the Rev team would consider that as a possibility at some time?

But in the meantime, I'll hide the stacked players on the card running them as you suggested.

Thank you for your help, Klaus.

You could make the player invisible or place it behind something else.

You can also just Playing sounds without a player only works for some file formats however.[/code]

Thank you for that info, Drachen.

Yup, I think I'll go with all of my players piled on top of each other and hidden behind an object (or make them all invisible); that should do the trick!