Play/Pause multiple audio tracks along a timeline

[Daniel]

@mhermes

<audio class="audio" width="400" controls="controls" preload="auto">
<source src="${resourcesFolderName}/canCan.mp3" type="audio/mpeg">

you need a closing </audio> tag. This has more info: <audio>: The Embed Audio element - HTML: HyperText Markup Language | MDN

@mhermes

In the shape tag, is the "class" the same as the "ElementID" I'm defining in the JS function you mentioned?

No. A class is inside of class="X" and an id would be within id="x"

Sharing a document with these tests sertup would be great so we can see exactly what you're doing.

@mhermes

• In the following scene, I define an "On Scene Load" event of starting my background audio track, which loops throughout all the remaining scenes.

This should work as long as you don't have any scene transitions (instant transition only).

@mhermes

If I just place a play sound action on a subsequent timeline but don't have an initial On Scene Load > Play Sound at some point in my scenes, those actions will not trigger without a button click.

You're 'engaging in media' so the browser is thinking 'hey, this guy really wants to play sound'. Chrome calls this the Media Engagement Index. But you may see different behavior in different browsers when it comes to this. Sometimes this engagement is linked to what you do on a domain.

@mhermes

Can this behavior be replicated by manually triggering an audio file via a JS function or is Hype doing something internally different when triggering an action on the timeline?

You can probably play quiet static as an on scene load action until the browser algorithms become self aware