Menu background music

NiftyNev41

Newbie Location: Esperance, Western Australia Joined: Nov 13, 2012 22:07 Messages: 7 Offline

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Dec 07, 2015 03:04

Is there any way to stop the menu background music from annoyingly repeating everytime you navigate through the number of "pages" in the Chapters Menu? I have a number of pages with four chapters (dance item thumbnails) on each page. When switching from page to page the background music stops and repeats on opening each page. It would be so good if the music started at the Root Menu and continued unbroken towards its maximum 99 seconds duration until such time as you navigated to the item you wished to play. But I guess that is just wishful thinking!!!

Anja the Dane

Contributor Location: Denmark (North of Copenhagen) Joined: Mar 03, 2011 15:02 Messages: 347 Offline

Dec 07, 2015 04:30

Hi Nifty,

I think the only way to have no background music everytime you navigate through the number of "pages" in the Chapters Menu is to create the menu with no music at all.

At least I can't find a way to to let the music continued unbroken and and repeat on opening each page turn - sorry.

Cheers, Anja PDR 14.0.4207.0 / Windows 10 64-bit / Asus / Intel i7-4790 3.60 GHz / 16GB RAM / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 / DirectX 12

ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Dec 07, 2015 05:39

Anja -

The reason you can't think of a way to do that is... there is no way to do that in PDR.

We're stuck with it, I'm afraid. In PDR's menus, when you navigate to a new page the assigned music for that page restarts.

So NiftyNev from W.A. - the options are:

Create a menu with no music at all

Use nebulous "looping" kind of music that doesn't jar when it restarts - & maybe use fade in/out to soften the blow! I've made a series of these about 15 seconds long (which fits with PDR's menu structure) - an example attached

Assign different music to each page - maybe in a similar style - so it disguises the restart. Here's how to do that... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeIN84Xnyrk

Yep - wishful thinking

Cheers - Tony (from the east)

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tomasc

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 25, 2011 12:33 Messages: 6464 Offline

Dec 07, 2015 11:08

As Tony has shown in the YT link, you can also choose music in the root page and no music in the scenes pages in the menu structure. I like to reduce the volume of any music that I choose to apply to menus.

NiftyNev41

Newbie Location: Esperance, Western Australia Joined: Nov 13, 2012 22:07 Messages: 7 Offline

Dec 08, 2015 06:47

Thanks everyone for your kind and prompt response to my query. Your suggestions have now been acted upon and have shown to be a very worthwhile option. Smart thinking, guys!!