Audio over multiple slides in Storyline

Hello,

Is this a feature included in Storyline 3?

Hi Jaclyn, 

Background audio and playlists are not yet a feature of Storyline 3. 

Thanks for checking in on this feature! 

This was 2 years ago, how about now, keen to achieve the same thing?

Hey Alastair - I know that Emily shared a cool audio trick here if you'd like to check it out. Not sure what version of Storyline you are using.

Any updates on this? I'm a new user and very surprised there is not an easy, built in solution for playing audio over multiple slides - possible selecting slides from "storyview" for audio file.

Hi Cristina! Welcome to the community. 😊 While there still isn't a way to add audio over multiple slides, we do realize it's a popular request! If we add this feature to Storyline in the future, we'll be sure to share the news here. 

You can keep up with all the new and exciting things we're adding to Storyline on our What's New page! 

Thank you!

Cristina Emberton
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Hey Cristina,

Glad that Alyssa was able to help you out here :)

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I tried Matt's solution and the audio plays over the whole story beautiful.

I have tried many things, but no matter what, my first page is black with a play button in the middle. I tried using states and layers with a picture, but the black screen is always first.  Is there anyway to change this when you want the embedded video to occupy the entire stage.  I am new to this, so I may be missing something simple. Attached is picture of the screen.

Rich T

Hi Rich,

That's expected to account for the changes in media autoplay policies by some of the popular browsers like Chrome and Safari. You can read a bit more about it here. 

I would love to hear if any enhancements have been made to accommodate background music being played over multiple slides.

Thanks for checking in, Elizabeth!  While there isn't a feature for adding audio over multiple slides, we do realize it's a popular request! If we add this feature to Storyline in the future, we'll be sure to share the news with you. 

You can keep up with all the new and exciting things we're adding to Storyline on our What's New page! 

Hi Alyssa Gomez,  I spent the last couple of days + overtime working on this problem.  The issue is that most of the javascripts/html solutions suggested here works beautifully on the PC and Android but not on the iPhone.  According to https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/wa-ioshtml5/ the iOS allows only a single audio at a time.   And the volume cannot be controled from Javascript.  In my testing I can get Javascript initiated from a lightbox but not inside an active slide with other audio activities :(.   This seems like a problem with Apple ... not something that Articulate can fix easily.  At any rate ... I got the best result by (1) using short looping audio in all slides (2) Using sox (Ubuntu) to normalize all *.wav and *.mp3 audios and ffmpeg (+sox)  to normalize all audios in mp4 files.  (3) Then use so to to generate a normalized - 18dB versions for the background sound.   

A simple alternative is to put your audio on the base layer and make your "multiple slides" in which the music plays simply a sequence of layers that are navigated through, either manually or via timing...

Hi - Checking in to see if this is a feature yet? If not, is there any idea of if/when this is on a product road map?

Hi Nicole and welcome to E-Learning Heroes :)

This is not a feature that has been released.

We've worked to prioritize some of the most popular feature requests. This is on our list based on user feedback here in the forums and feature request submissions, but I do not have any insight into any implementation.

This conversation is attached and you should now be subscribed, so we will share any updates here.

So this request/thread is over 5 years old now.  Any chance we can expect it to be resolved before another 5 years has passed? :-)  

I did see the one solution posted a while back that can put music across the entire project.  I would like to run some background music that continues across only 3 slides, so that solution unfortunately will not help me.  The slides are quiz questions and I would like 'quiz music' to play while on those slides.  The slides only progress forward based on user actions so I can't just split up the music.  It appears that my only choice at this time is to place the same music file on each slide - thus starting it over each time the user moves to the next slide.  

While this isn't the end of the world for my current needs, I can foresee the need to have a continuous music track (not necessarily for the entire course) on future slides.  

So... what's the status on this one?

Thanks!

I agree!

Voice-over sounds so much better with background music. Plus the choice of the music can really help set the tone for the content. (I.e. 'bright' for a 101 course or onboarding. 'Ominous' to start a hazard review.) I often have 3 or 4 slides in the beginning that I would like to have music running across. The only think I can do so far - is play those like a video, capture with Camtasia, add the music, and then put it all on one slide. Not optimum.

Thanks,

Jeff

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for letting us know that you're anticipating this feature.

I'm not sure which solution you took a look at, but it sounds like the use of different slide masters may work for the set-up you would like to see.

As I mentioned above, this feature was prioritized internally based on user feedback. I do not have a roadmap, but we will notify you here when we have information to share.

Hi Jeff, 

I appreciate you letting us know your thoughts and how you would use this feature as well. Thanks for sharing your idea too.

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This feature has been available in your main competition for ages, I cannot believe this has not been implemented in Storyline 360 when it's been asked for for over 5 years!  It's a no brainer!

Hi, I would like to add this as a feature request also. Just wondering how long requests take to implement for Articulate in general? This was requested over 5 years ago and prioritised over 2 years ago. Would this be a normal turn around time when requesting new functionality? 

Hi Darren,

Thank you for chiming in to share that this is a feature you would like to see as well.

We currently have a general guideline and the details about how we manage these feature requests may be helpful to take a peek at.

In addition, this site has been recently implemented to share what we're currently committed to working on: Articulate 360 Feature Roadmap

You can see all of the new features and fixes historically in our Storyline 360 Version History and we are working to make this entire process more seamless and transparent.

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 DG,

Your solution for the continuous music from one slide to the next is awesome. Thank you so much for sharing your solution and resources. 

db