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Twine Version: 2
Story Format: Harlowe 3.1
Dear members,
I am a new member. I’m sure I can learn a lot from you and some day return the favor of helping others. I’m an English instructor (ESL) and I’d like to use Twine 2 to make interactive learning activities for my students.
My question is this: I have a 3 minute sound file. It works in Twine.
However, I do not want it to all play at once. I’d like to make 15 second portions for each new Twine ‘page’.
How can I set the url to play 15 second portions? I do not want to split up the mp3 file itself.
Thank you, in advance, for any help you might offer.
I do this in my WIP - the main theme is about seven minutes long, and I have three excerpts from it as different files that play when I want a specific section of it.
So this won’t work for you, but realize you can also include the entire track as a separate file for when you want the whole thing to play as above.
If you can play it using JS, audio objects have a currentTime property that allows you to specify where to start playing. To stop at a certain point you can use setTimeout().
Audio libraries such as Howler make this easier (search for “audio sprites” or “sound sprites”).
Thank you very much for your advice. To say the least, Twine and programming is very overwhelming. I need to learn it within a month, however. If you don’t mind, can you suggest any introductory books or websites? I’m watching videos on youtube. Thank you. -Gavin
I’m finding Chris Klimas’s Chapbook Twine format incredibly inviting and creator-friendly with most of the stuff you want to do built in and explained thoroughly: Introduction