Audio over multiple slides in Storyline

I was thinking to try this approach too for a while. One big advantage to your approach is, you can tween pages into each other any way your imagination wants. You all know those kinetic typographic animations... well with Linda's onepage-approach ( let's give it a name ) you can rotate, tween scaleup and down anything you want with the complete content and thus achieve cool looking transitions.

To illustrate what comes to my mind... something like this...and when your on page 1 and click next..or anything else...your complete pageset will change/rotate whatever.

Since any of you might think this is helpful, I will add that I created each of my "segments" or "scenes" on its own slide, grouped the elements and then moved the group to the 'main' slide. Then I deleted my development slide.

This helped me stay sane. Must label/name groups and use the 'show/hide' function a LOT!

Hi Kendra,

There is solution for this. Either you place the audio by using it as a source  in html using the <audio> tag or  you can insert the audio in all the slides. I hope this will work for you.

Thanks for popping in to share Priyanka! Kendra's last response to this thread was a while back, but you are welcome to reach out to her directly via the 'Contact Me' option on her profile if you wish to assist her directly.

Hi Math,

I am trying your steps and have a question, what is the "web address" that I would enter in the web object screen?  

Here is what I did that didn't work: I published slides file, then right-clicked on published slides html file and selected open with Internet Explorer.  Next, I copied that web address and inserted it into the web object and when I test link it stated to enter a valid web address. 

The web address I entered was just the folder path.  Do I need to publish the file into our LMS then use that web address?

Thanks,

Dana

Hi Dana,

I'm not sure if Math is still subscribed to this thread, so you may want to message him directly using the "contact me" button on his profile to see if he's able to share more steps with you here. 

ok thanks Ashley.

Quick question, however I am afraid I know the answer.  Have there been any product updates on this feature that do not include needing Articulate Presenter or needing to know JS & HTML? This discussion has been going on for over 3 years.  Captivate could do this as a standard feature in 2011 (Cap 5), PowerPoint (2007 et al.) can do this.

Any updates?

Hi Brian,

There isn't a change to this behavior in Storyline, so you'd still need to use the Javascript methods or look to using Studio'13 and the Presenter playlist feature. 

Aanything new on this topic?  I am looking to add audio across all of my slides.

Thanks!

Hey Shelby! 

Have you seen this little gem shared by Emily here?

WOW!!  WOWW!!  

This is SO great - thank you for sharing!!

Glad you found some helpful information here as well Teri :) Thanks for popping in to share. I need to see that kind of enthusiasm first thing. 

One way I dealt with this was to use layers to have multiple "slides" all on one slide. It definitely can get tricky and requires the use of way more triggers, but it did the trick.

Here's a point-and-click exploration I created that gives you an idea. I only used three actual slides, with a looping audio file for each:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/585945439/Bettis%20Family%20Cemetery/Bettis%20Family%20Cemetery%20-%20Storyline%20output/story.html

Thanks for popping in to share your findings as well Wade :)

I just had the same issue and I realized background sound will break when moving to the next slide. Hope Articulate team considers that for future improvement in updates.

Hi Roland,

You may want to take a look at this forum discussion with a really great trick on adding Background audio within Storyline. 

I have to admit that I'm disappointed. I don't understand why, when this is clearly a feature requested by so many users, the ability to play sound files across slides has not been addressed by Articulate. I've requested it, as I'm sure many others have, but this discussion was started over four years ago, and the capability still doesn't exist even in the new Storyline 360. Same goes for printing and emailing from slides... all this good stuff requires a work-around which is time consuming and arduous. Are these requests ever going to be addressed?

Hi Laura,

There are a few things such as printing and emailing that rely on the browser and email client and therefore we haven't implemented those within Articulate tools as we didn't feel that it was something guaranteed to work consistently. As for the audio across multiple slides, that feature isn't in Storyline but is an option in Studio (Presenter specifically). One of my colleagues did create a method for how to accomplish this in Storyline 2. 

Is there a fix for this in Storyline 360?

Hi Joan,

Are you talking about the background audio feature?  It's not something that has been included in Storyline yet - but with Articulate 360 you'd have access to Presenter which does include a playlist feature. 

If you have questions about other features you’d like to see or know are coming, just let me know. I’m happy to share what I know!

Yep, I'm talking about background audio. There isn't an option to import anything from Presenter to Storyline, is there? 

Thanks so much for responding to my question! It will be really cool when this feature is incorporated into Storyline.

Hi Joan,

You can import from Presenter into Storyline as shown here. There are certain features like playlists which won't be imported. 

Hi, thanks for the suggestion, I tried this with a 3-scene .story, ended up with a 4th scene with music and none on the other scenes. Don't know what I did wrong!