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Hi Peter, I have also noticed this inconsistent behaviour. There is another point I would like to stress in this respect: whether in Slide List or Timeline mode one should _always_ have the option of closing or leaving the time gap. Recently I was doing some refining work on a 200 slide project for which I had carefully edited a soundtrack. At a certain moment I decided to delete a slide in order to have some more time for a special effect in the previous slide. To make a long story short: I ended up with a closed time gap and all my carefully synchronised points following the deleted slide were gone! Luckily I had made a project backup...

OK.... I decided to stop investigating... It took me a couple af hours, but I have re-assembled the soundtrack from scratch and the problem is gone... Many thanks to all responders for all the tips, I have learned a lot!

Thanks for the input Brian, it is appreciated. I indeed constructed the track by opening the various mp3files in Audacity, cutting the desired fragment, adding some fade-in/fade-out affects where needed, and finally stitching everything together with cut & paste. I have also added "silence bits" to make sure there were no disconinuities. ( when i zoom in with audacity, I cannot see any gaps as the one you posted) Anyway, I did some thinking last night... To check whether there is some kind of weird mp3 problem directly related to the specific point in time where the music unexpectedly stops, I copied the apparently offending piece of sound ( plus 30 seconds before and after the point where the problem occurs ) to a new file, and used that to play the show. Guess what? the music did not stop, it worked... Yet another experiment: I converted the (failing) mp3 to wav-format. As you know, wav only contains only raw waveform data, there is no more mp3 compression or other hanky-panky. Guess what? The music stopped at exactly the same point as with the mp3... HELP!! :( :(

Hi Lin, I guess you're absolutely right! The problem occurs at the point where a previous piece of music fades out and a new piece is fading in, I really should have mentioned this earlier. Something must be wrong at that point, but what? Note that the sound track _was_ edited and exported to mp3 with Audacity. When I export to mp3, Audacity prompts me with the choice to export as "most flexible" or as "most compatible". Until now I have always chosen most flexible, I will give "most compatible" a try. However, a few things keep bugging me: - why does the problem not occur in miniviewer mode? - why does the soundtrack behaves normally with Audacity and Windows Media Player?

Yes it runs perfectly Ken, but without music...

Thanks for the tips Brian, but... The problem remains; (I've tried both the methods you suggested.) I've also tried a version without slide 96 and now the musics stops at the next slide. Assuming all was saved correctly, it keeps me puzzled why previewing in the mini-viewer works perfectly but going into fullscreen mode (or testing a generated exe) fails??? I have rechecked all slide settings again: -There is 1 reference to a soundtrack of 9:15 minutes in Project Options>Music, -There are 2 references to short sound effects attached directly to 2 slides (not anywhere near the point where the music stops) - I have 142 slides - Compiled exe size is +/- 170 MByte. I'm at loss here and am suspecting a serious bug in P2E v5.5...

Hi Ken, Thanks for the fast reply. "Synchronize music and slides" is _not_ checked in Project Options. However, it _may_ have been checked in the past when I was experimenting. In the .pte- file, I see the following section: opt_autosynch=0 opt_synchpermitcontrol=0 opt_synch_count=142 opt_synchpos1=4000 opt_synchpos2=8000 opt_synchpos3=11300 opt_synchpos4=15433 opt_synchpos5=20000 opt_synchpos6=24000 opt_synchpos7=28000 opt_synchpos8=32000 ..... opt_synchpos94=362900 opt_synchpos95=366333 opt_synchpos96=370200 <== music stops here opt_synchpos97=374333 opt_synchpos98=377967 .... opt_synchpos137=532333 opt_synchpos138=536667 opt_synchpos139=540667 opt_synchpos140=544534 opt_synchpos141=551733 opt_synchpos142=556667 opt_synchpos143=563833 opt_synch_pointscount=143 opt_syncmode=0 ======= This is what is in the pte-file for slides 95-96-97. As mentioned above the problem occurs at slide 96; [slide95] ShowPic=1 Picture=D:\data\foto\REIZEN\Bulgarije\Plovdiv\jpg\DSC_8768-01.jpg Sound=@ UsePersonal=1 Pers_Fon=0 Pers_RunApp=0 Pers_Effect=1 Pers_CompressKeypoints=0 RunAppFN= Pers_EndAction= bstyle=1 bname=0 bcolor1=16711680 bcolor2=0 bcolorStyle=1 bsize=20 Effect_Class=2 Effect_Type=1 EffectTime=1500 EffectUseSmoothline=0 EffectSmoothline=350 EffectCenterX=50 EffectCenterY=50 EffectRollVariants=1 EffectRollDiameter=400 EffectRollUseBackColor=0 EffectRollBackColor=12632256 EffectBroomOffset=20 MusicAction=1 MusicCount=0 object DSC_8768-01:MainImage GUID={05F8CF91-9762-4E3A-A894-7A6AA7FE757F} FitMode=PlaceInto PosMode=Percent CenterMode=Percent DeltaTime1=0 DeltaTime2=0 TranspForClick=0 PerspectiveCorrection=0 ShadowEnable=0 ShadowSize=16 ShadowColor=0,0,0 ShadowOpacity=59 ShadowDistance=1.5 ShadowAngle=45 ShadowSpreadIndex=0 Action= PanSpeed=2;196500;199436;1;0;1;0;1;0;1; RotateSpeed=2;196500;199436;1;0;1;0;1;0;1; ZoomSpeed=2;196500;199436;1;0;1;0;1;0;1; Antialiased=1 SimpleBlure=0 MipLevels=0 Filtering=Default ImageName=D:\data\foto\REIZEN\Bulgarije\Plovdiv\jpg\DSC_8768-01.jpg object KeyPoint1:KeyPoint Time=0 Origin=SlideBegin Opacity=100 Angle=0 ScaleX=162.05603 ScaleY=162.05603 Position=38.4375,-11.71875 CenterPos=0,0 end object KeyPoint2:KeyPoint Time=2936 Origin=SlideBegin Opacity=100 Angle=0 ScaleX=119.672134 ScaleY=119.672134 Position=19.375,0 CenterPos=0,0 end end [slide96] <== music stops here=== ShowPic=1 Picture=D:\data\foto\REIZEN\Bulgarije\Plovdiv\jpg\sheep_scape.jpg Sound=@ UsePersonal=1 Pers_Fon=0 Pers_RunApp=0 Pers_Effect=1 Pers_CompressKeypoints=0 RunAppFN= Pers_EndAction= bstyle=1 bname=0 bcolor1=16711680 bcolor2=0 bcolorStyle=1 bsize=20 Effect_Class=2 Effect_Type=1 EffectTime=1500 EffectUseSmoothline=0 EffectSmoothline=350 EffectCenterX=50 EffectCenterY=50 EffectRollVariants=1 EffectRollDiameter=400 EffectRollUseBackColor=0 EffectRollBackColor=12632256 EffectBroomOffset=20 MusicAction=1 MusicCount=0 object sheep_scape:MainImage GUID={856C3CA6-37A9-4AEC-8B9F-77576B879316} ImageName=D:\data\foto\REIZEN\Bulgarije\Plovdiv\jpg\sheep_scape.jpg object KeyPoint1:KeyPoint end end [slide97] ShowPic=1 Picture=D:\data\foto\REIZEN\Bulgarije\Boottocht\jpg\DSC_8843-01.jpg Sound=@ UsePersonal=1 Pers_Fon=0 Pers_RunApp=0 Pers_Effect=1 Pers_CompressKeypoints=0 RunAppFN= Pers_EndAction= bstyle=1 bname=0 bcolor1=16711680 bcolor2=0 bcolorStyle=1 bsize=20 Effect_Class=2 Effect_Type=1 EffectTime=1500 EffectUseSmoothline=0 EffectSmoothline=350 EffectCenterX=50 EffectCenterY=50 EffectRollVariants=1 EffectRollDiameter=400 EffectRollUseBackColor=0 EffectRollBackColor=12632256 EffectBroomOffset=20 MusicAction=1 MusicCount=0 object DSC_8843-01:MainImage GUID={73745A9C-AC6A-4415-B17D-DF8B1C3B6ADC} FitMode=PlaceInto PosMode=Percent CenterMode=Percent DeltaTime1=0 DeltaTime2=0 TranspForClick=0 PerspectiveCorrection=0 ShadowEnable=0 ShadowSize=16 ShadowColor=0,0,0 ShadowOpacity=59 ShadowDistance=1.5 ShadowAngle=45 ShadowSpreadIndex=0 Action= PanSpeed=1;371667;0;0;1; RotateSpeed=1;371667;0;0;1; ZoomSpeed=1;371667;0;0;1; Antialiased=1 SimpleBlure=0 MipLevels=0 Filtering=Default ImageName=D:\data\foto\REIZEN\Bulgarije\Boottocht\jpg\DSC_8843-01.jpg object KeyPoint1:KeyPoint Time=0 Origin=SlideBegin Opacity=100 Angle=0 ScaleX=120.785217 ScaleY=120.785217 Position=20.625,0 CenterPos=0,0 end end

Hi all, I am using P2E v5.5 for a few weeks now and am very pleased with the tremendous possibilities! However, suddenly a problem has surfaced: in full screen preview mode the music stops at a certain point. After saving the project > doing Create, the created exe also shows the problem at the same point in time. But when previewing in the mini-viewer, all is OK from beginning to end?? - The problem occurs at the exact point where I yesterday deleted a slide, and inserted a new one. - I am using just one soundtrack, which is showing correctly in the project options> music tab with a correct length of 9:15 minutes. - I have checked that the newly inserted slide does not contain any references to music files, and that "play new music here" is not checked. I'm baffled... any ideas?? Thanks - Dirk