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background music in Storyline
Hi everybody,
Is there any way to insert background music like in Presenter in Storyline?
Thank you
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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HI Widya, it is not possible to have a track play across all slides as in presenter. You can have a track play across a single slide
Hi Phil, thank you! Very unfortunate, I hope Storyline will have that feature in the near future.
6 years ago and this still hasn't been added. Sad.
- The best way to help urge that is to file a feature request for Articulate's consideration: http://www.articulate.com/support/contact/submit.php?form=feature
Widya Y said:
Hi Phil, thank you! Very unfortunate, I hope Storyline will have that feature in the near future.
What if you put the audio on the slide master? Would that work for playing music across slides in Storyline?
You could try but I think it would either not play or restart each time the slide master was called. In storyline the slide is destroyed each time you leave it
You could try either previewing or publishing the presentation, then screen capturing it live with something like Camtasia whilst playing the music in the background? It's fiddly, but it might just work!!
Hi. I'm also interested in adding background music to a slide with several layers. The layers are animated like a slideshow (with fade in/fade out animations), but I want the background music to continue across all layers. The only way I have been able to do this is to break the sound up and add it to each layer, but it's choppy... I'm very new to storyline so appreciate any hints if there is a way to make this more fluid.
Thanks!
Hey Sarah! I realize you posted this over a year ago, but I thought I'd chime in nonetheless (and hopefully you've figured this out by now!)
When you build a layer, you can click on the gear to the right of the layer name. This opens the properties menu for that layer. From here, you can de-select the option that says 'Pause Timeline of Base Layer.' This will allow your audio to continue to play as your user advances through the layers.
I hope this is helpful!
Step to add background music:
1. Publish your story first
2. In the output folder, open story.html with notepad and edit the HTML code as below:
2a. First, find the coding -
2b. Add new coding underneath as follows:
2c. Change the "yourmusicfile.mp3" to your mp3 file name
3. Save the story.html
Hey Kenny,
The solution works but the audio does not loop. What could possible be wrong? Please let me know. This is the bode I entered before </body>
<embed src="riding_a_bicycle21.mp3" autostart="true" loop="infinite" width="2" height="0">
</embed>
<noembed>
<bgsound src="riding_a_bicycle.mp3" loop="infinite">
</noembed>Thanks,
Hima
Erm...is there some example html code missing from your post Kenny?
This looks like the perfect solution to my problem however!
Hey Andy,
Sorry to jump in here. Just wanted to repost Kenny's code:
< embed src="yourmusicfile.mp3" autostart="true" loop="true" width="2" height="0" >
< /embed >
< noembed >
< bgsound src="yourmusicfile.mp3" loop="infinite" >
< /noembed >I had to add some additional spaces so it would show up properly.
I hope this helps :)
Christine
The only thing missing from your repost is where to put the code... I put right after the < /head > and it worked. Thanks Heroes!
