Defining the music track

## Introduction

The Music properties dialog allows you to specify the music track:
This dialog is called by double-clicking the music zone of slides in the timeline of the main window.

## Description of the dialog

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### The upper part of the dialog

#### Functional Principles

The main functional principle for music tracks is that as long as you do not change the settings, the previous settings apply.
So, if:

- Slide 1 - Defines a play list
- Slide 2 - Contains no settings
- Slide 3 - Contains no settings
- Slide 4 - Defines a play list
- Slide 5 - Contains no settings

Then:

- Slide 2 and 3 continue to play the play list defined in slide 1
- Slide 5 continues to play the play list define in slide 4

#### Settings for the music track

Continue current playlist | Continues to play the play list define by a previous slide :
Normal | No specific settings
Change sound level | Specifies that from now on, the sound volume is reduced. This option is particularly useful, for example, to reduce the sound of the music during the play of a video. Remark : This volume reduction is defined only for this slide.
Set to pause | Pauses the current play list. Remark : This pause is defined only for this slide.
Start a new playlist | Allows you to create a new playlist. If a list defined in a previous slide, is still playing, it is stopped with a fade-out effect (progressive decline of the sound volume up to complete stop).

### The playlist (bottom part of the dialog)

This playlist section consists of two parts:

- The toolbar containing controls for the playlist
- The list of the music files composing the playlist

#### The toolbar

| Adds a file to the playlist A file selection dialog appears, allowing you to select a file.
| Removes the current selected file from the playlist.
| Changes the order in which the music files will be played. Moves the currently selected file one step up.
| Changes the order in which the music files will be played. Moves the currently selected file one step down.

#### The playlist

The music files are listed in the order in which they will be played, from top to bottom.
The Volume column defines the " Master volume " for the file. This volume is independent of any reductions in the volume that you define in the upper part of the dialog.

## Remark

The fade in/out effects and the increase/decrease of volume take place during the entering slide transitions. Consequently:

- They occupy the same time as the entering transition.
- If a slide has a entering transition set to "No transition", the sound effect is not progressive but instantaneous.

## See also

- Index of the ffDiaporama WIKI
- How ffDiaporama works
- The timeline
- Defining slide transitions

ffDiaporama 1.0