audio across slides
May 31, 2018
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Hi everyone!
I have some great news to share. We just released another update for Storyline 360. In Update 74, we've included important fixes and new features.
One of the new features we've included is:
- Create immersive experiences with continuous background audio that sets the tone and keeps learners engaged.
Launch the Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer to take advantage of this update, and click the Update button next to Storyline 360. You'll find our step-by-step instructions here.
Please let me know if you have questions!
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Hello, Iffaf. Great question! Although the ability to have audio play across all slides is not a feature in Storyline at this time, I wanted to share some resources that may help you accomplish what you're looking to do:
Additionally, would you mind telling me a little more about why this function would come in handy for you? I've attached your thread to this feature request's report, and would love to share any further insights with our product team – feel free to also share any other thoughts you have here ☺️
I have the same problem. Just recently subscribed and having this issue is really disappointing. I tried all the previous posts about the coding solution but to no avail. I'm doing a self-progressing course and need to have an audio background to make it more alive.
Hope someone could help.
I am experiencing a similar problem. I added a background music clip to the base layer and added voice over to each layer of an introduction slide. Problem is that the music clip is a few seconds short, and I'm looking for a way to loop the music so that it plays throughout the entire slide. I've used the trigger when media ends on the base layer approach as others have suggested, but I still can't get it to work.
Help please, and thank you!
To loop an audio file successfully, I had to NOT place the audio file manually on the timeline. Rather, I had to create a trigger to PLAY MEDIA WHEN TIMELINE STARTS and that trigger allowed me to select the audio file from the computer.
Then I added the PLAY MEDIA WHEN MEDIA COMPLETES and select the audio chosen in the first trigger. This loop method works for me.
Hi, Jerry.
I agree and that is mostly what I now do but it really depends on the audio. Sometimes I have to cut into the audio I am using in order to just use the intro or the chorus so that it doesn't sound skippy. OR, if there is a screen where the user is doing a little more reading, I will have my longer audio.
Have a great day.
Another solution I use when I have an audio clip I need to shorten or lengthen so the music concludes at specific points on my timelines is a free audio tool called AUDACITY.
It's free, a little daunting at first, but trust me, it's worth the day or two investment to get familiar because now it's easy-peasy for me to take any standard background file and duplicate a few measures of music here and there in the middle to lengthen, or remove a few measure to get the nice clean "ending" where I want it.
The FadeIN and FadeOUT "effects" allow me to take any unedited music, select the number of seconds of audio I want, then fade the ends nicely. I love this tool, obviously. A perfect pairing with Storyline, IMO.
I'd also like the ability to add a song to the background and have the option to loop it for the entire module or slides that I select that are organized next to each other.
This is a long overdue feature.
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Thanks Jerry, this worked well for me. I only wanted the music to appear in a certain scene, so I applied it to the master that I used for the entire scene and voila!
Question for your or anyone else...I have some of the slides in this scene where I have a clickable screen capture as well, and the audio is not audible on those slides. Any thoughts on how to make this trigger work for them?
Not off the top of my head. If you want to post the .story I'll be happy to take a look.
This is a huge need for me and my team. Are there any plans on making this a feature in Storyline 360.
Hi Sandi,
We still do not have any new updates on this Feature Request, but you can check out our Articulate 360 roadmap to see which new features are being worked on. We'll let everyone subscribed to this thread know if there are any updates on this request.
In the mean time, you can checkout some of the workarounds shared by my colleague Katie. This one in particular has received some good feedback from the community.
Hey guys. I had a client request this feature and couldn't find an elegant solution anywhere. I managed to come up with my own solution that allows Storyline to pull the audio files from the resources section. You can view a sample here... https://360.articulate.com/review/content/d2fa518a-c4fc-456b-afaf-e8e21a544242/review
I had to create my own custom javascript, but I put together a video and a blog with all the javascript you'd need to recreate this effect on your own. https://digitallearning.studio/universal-audio_sl360/
Hope this helps! And happy Storylining!
-DG
Hi everyone!
I have some great news to share. We just released another update for Storyline 360. In Update 74, we've included important fixes and new features.
One of the new features we've included is:
Launch the Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer to take advantage of this update, and click the Update button next to Storyline 360. You'll find our step-by-step instructions here.
Please let me know if you have questions!