<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">In the events editor, you will see an event<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>"When the world starts, do world.my first method"</div><div><br></div><div>Replace the call to my first method with a DoTogether block. Drag the call to "world.my first method” into this DoTogether block, and then drag in a “play sound” tile (choosing the sound file that you want to play as background) into the same DoTogether.</div><div><br></div><div>See the attached screen shot…</div><div><br></div><div>Let us know if you have any other questions…</div><div><br></div><div>All the best,</div><div>Don Slater</div><div><br></div><div><img apple-inline="yes" id="6BAFDD53-AC91-4995-8F8C-93406E5FB766" height="366" width="830" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:DFA30A38-8A57-41AA-89E1-03C22692E3DE@wv.cc.cmu.edu"></div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 17, 2013, at 10:28 AM, Laurie Solomon Cohen <<a href="mailto:lscohen613@aol.com">lscohen613@aol.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><font size="2" face="Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
<div> <font size="2">So now we've imported sounds and/or only .wav files, and they are working!<br>
However, how do you set the sound file so it plays throughout the entire Alice story, like background music? I understand that the music has to be the same length as the movie video, or it will error.<br>
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From: Wendy Evans <<a href="mailto:wendy_evans@cvsd.k12.pa.us">wendy_evans@cvsd.k12.pa.us</a>><br>
To: 'Alice educators' <<a href="mailto:alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu">alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu</a>><br>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:">I have found that the .wav works the best in Alice2.x. I too have not had much luck importing .mp3 files. We use Audacity and export them to .wav and then import into Alice.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"> alice-teachers-bounces+wendy_evans=<a href="mailto:cvsd.k12.pa.us@lists.andrew.cmu.edu">cvsd.k12.pa.us@lists.andrew.cmu.edu</a> [<a href="mailto:alice-teachers-bounces+wendy_evans=cvsd.k12.pa.us@lists.andrew.cmu.edu?">mailto:alice-teachers-bounces+wendy_evans=cvsd.k12.pa.us@lists.andrew.cmu.edu</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Laurie Solomon Cohen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 16, 2013 11:48 PM<br>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:">My students have imported sounds into their Alice stories. </span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:">But today a student downloaded several sound effects .mp3 files and then imported them into her Alice story, but couldn't hear them. Then she imported a .wav file and it worked. Do only .wav files work?</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:">I wanted to send the actual Alice file, but forgot to save it from the school network today, to send out tonight. If the answer to this requires seeing the code, I can send it tomorrow.</span></div>
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