Background Music Demo
Mar 24, 2015
I made a demo featuring background music that goes through the whole course (doesn't change from slide to slide). The user can chose from four songs to listen to and can adjust the volume, and the song continues playing through every slide and loops when it completes. I've also added instructions on how to make this work to the module.
I don't know whether someone else has already posted something like this (I couldn't find anything), but hey if so here's one more!
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I've put together a second demo that shows a different way to do this. This second version performs the same actions as the first one, but without needing to edit the output files every time you publish! It saves a lot of headaches when you need to edit something in the course because now you don't have to drop the music files into the output folder and you dont have to edit the html file every time you publish!
I've also attached the second version .story file. Its called Background_Music_Version_2.story.
If anyone needs help getting either versions of this to work I'm more than happy to assist :)
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PLEASE HELP! I cannot get this background music to work.
It's not worth pursuing. Browser security around audio is a lot tighter than when this was first done. If you get it to work, its likely another update is going to break it in the future.
Can you please tell me how to view this story html file for adding the background audio line of script? I am only able to view the manifest file and I do not see any <body> or <script> tags.
Going by recent replies to this thread, I take that this solution no longer works with Google Chrome v66 or higher? I can't get it to work. Has anyone figured out another workaround?
Does anyone know if this simple feature will ever get added to Storyline? Are there any workarounds that work regardless of browser security restrictions?
Hi Jackson and Staff. I'm currently working on Storyline 360 and have tried to add background music using your steps above but it doesn't seem to work for me. Is there an updated tutorial or do these steps still apply?
Would you also mind looking at my storyline file to see what I could be doing wrong? Thanks.
HI, I followed the instructions but audio in my course is running just for first slide. Kindly help
Hi Jackson, Leslie, I have tried the above and it doesn't play the audio file. Am I doing something wrong - what should I check?
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I know there are numerous posts about playing music across your course, but has anyone gotten this to work? I have been trying for a couple days now on and off taking breathers because I'm so frustrated. This is the YouTube video I watched. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLjbm4Qgunk
Has anyone figured out how to attach volume adjustments to the player? I'm pretty sure we need to be able to adjust it in the player for our LMS team to accept it.
Hi Anamaria,
Storyline 360's player has a built-in feature that lets you adjust the volume of the audio in the course.
You can add this feature by enabling it in Storyline 360's Player settings. Let me know if you have any questions!
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Thanks a lot; you are very helpful. I follow you, and I am learning a lot!
I am no programmer, and I followed exactly your directions, but whenever I try to publish it to Review 360, I do not hear my music. Can you maybe see why?
Hi Bar,
Thanks for reaching out!
Are you able to share your file with us here or privately in a support case? We'll be happy to test your file to see what's going on!