Audio behind lightbox

Hi Helene! That's a great question, and currently, the way lightboxes work, there isn't a way to make the audio of the original slide play continuously when another slide is lightboxed overtop of it. What you could do instead, however, is mimic the effect by using slide layers instead of lightboxed slides. 

Attached is an example. I used a partially transparent rectangle on each slide layer to make it look like a lightbox effect. Then I added a button on the layer which allows learners to close the layer and go back to the base layer of the slide.

Great minds think alike!

That's exactly what i did between the time i posted the question and now.

i just got done and it works well.

...12 layers later!

i'm chalking it up to a learning experience

Cool! Glad to hear you got it working the way you want.

Hi Jeanette,

I visited the example posted herein by you.

Is there any trick in Storyline to play an audio in loop?

You may play a long audio in slide but this asks an extra effort to create an audio for background music and even after it stops when it completes whereas in Studio'09 there was this nice feature of playing a background music endlessly.

Can you suggest me any idea regarding playing an audio in loop?

Thanks in advance.

Hi Mayank, have you tried using triggers to repeat your audio? You could create one trigger to play the audio when the timeline starts, and then add another trigger to (re)play the audio when the media completes. Here's how it could look in the triggers panel:

Hi Jeanette,

Thanks for your quick reply.

I was trying to use before and again as you told above. I am inserting that triggers screenshot herein:

But still this thing is not working. It is not even playing the audio. 

In timeline the respective audio seems like this (shown by red arrow):

This (second) audio is not even able to play in previewing the slide.

Can you pls give me any idea about this? Am i doing anything wrong?

Thanks.

Any chance you could attach the slide here so we can take a look?

Just glancing at it

Sorry cant type on ipad well.

If you just want sound 2 to play after sound 1 you could move it on the timeline where sound 1 completes I would think.  Jeanette's option was to loop a single sound rather than one after the other.  I had to take the trigger off the second sound I put in before I could move it on the timeline but then I could put it wherever I wanted and even overlap if wanted.

Tim

Okay. I mimicked the lightbox effect using a slide layer as suggested by Jeanette. It works. The dramatic music continues to play and doing it this way gives me even more control of the layout. Thank you so much. This forum is really helpful. 

So glad to see when the older forum discussions are still helping out users.

Thanks so much for chiming in to share Mike :)