Background Music per Scene

Hi Michel!

Thanks for sharing feedback on the flexibility you’d like to see when working with background audio!

We currently have this logged as a feature request, so I’ll go ahead and include your voice! We’ll update this discussion if this feature makes it on our feature roadmap.

I've tried the same as you have (hiding a video in the slide, adding an audio file, lowering the volume of the background music). Nothing really worked for me in terms of getting the background audio to stop playing for certain scenes, having a different audio play for quiz slides, and restarting the background audio. Hopefully, future iterations of this feature will allow the flexibility to determine on which slides the background music plays. 

Hi Amanda!

Thanks for reaching out and sharing the feedback! It sounds like more flexibility with background audio would benefit your authoring in Storyline!

We currently have this logged as a feature request, so I’ll go ahead and include your voice as well! We’ll update this discussion if this feature makes it on our feature roadmap.

I have tried several times and trying out some javascript code but it still does not play a continuous background audio on specific slides and scenes. It either reset on each slide or stops halfway completely. Being able to control when and where the background audio plays is very useful in creating a professional e learning experience

use on every slide with background music the "on timeline start" trigger

if( !DS.courseAudio.enabled() ){
    DS.courseAudio.toggleEnabled();
}

use on every slide without background music the "on timeline start" trigger

if( DS.courseAudio.enabled() ){
    DS.courseAudio.toggleEnabled();
}

result (chapter 1 with music, chapter 2 without music):

https://360.articulate.com/review/content/58d38875-4f87-43e5-be46-7c8d6430a72d/review

Update: don't use these script - there are problems with Chrome/Edge (tested with Storyline 3.80)

Thanks for sharing a possible JavaScript solution, Jürgen!

Hyun, I added your voice to the feature request for the ability to disable or mute background audio in Storyline 360. Thank you for letting us know it would be helpful to you as well!

If you need help with anything else, please let us know here in the E-Learning Heroes Community or privately in a support case. We'll be happy to assist you!

Would this work on slides that do not have autoplay enabled? Currently my title slide is not auto play, the user has to click a play button layer. I would like to pause background audio until the play button is selected.

there are problems with Chrome/Edge*,  if the start slide has disabled background audio**

• the play buttons on start appears -> ok
• but in this session the background audio does not work at all -> error

=> don't use the JavaScript functions to disable background audio

* no problems with Firefox (Safari not tested)

** there are also problems on Chrome with resume on slides without background audio

Hi everyone!

Good news! I'm happy to share that we just released Storyline 360 (Build 3.81.31200.0), which includes a feature to control the background audio for each slide using triggers to play, pause, or stop the playlist.

This was highly requested, so we hope it serves you in your course creation! If you run into any snags, don't hesitate to contact our team in a support case.

I have a playlist for my background audio and i have the setting selected that the audio lowers by 90% when my current slide audio is playing, but the background audio still seems too loud. I still want the background audio to play, just not that loud so the user can still hear it faded in the back. I've updated it to 99% lowered and its still too loud.  I've tried it all, but nothing seems to work to make it less loud. I've tried 50% and that was WAY too loud. 

At this point, I am having to raise my slide audio volume so that its louder than the background.

Any suggestions?

Hello Julia!

It seems like all of the background audio is too loud and not just one specific audio file. Are you noticing this behavior while editing your course in Storyline 360 or in the published output too?

I've tested this on my end, but I am not having any issues with the volume of the background audio being too loud. Is it possible that you could share your .story file so I can better understand what you're experiencing? You can share it privately in a support case or in this discussion.

Hi can you provide specific instructions for what triggers/variables to set up to stop background music automatically playing on the first slide/scene to allow the music to only start on the second slide or when the user clicks a button.

What I do is have a trigger on the first slide to stop playing background
music when the timeline starts on the slide.
Then on the slide before the one I want the music to play I set up a
trigger to start playing background music when user clicks next. I do it
this so that there is no delay in the background music starting to play.
You can also set trigger"when timeline starts on slide start background
music " on the slide you want music to be heard.

Hope this helps.

Sincerely,

Mike Talbot
Technical Trainer
Phone: 204-661-8711 EXT 2320 | Cell: 204-782-1885 | Fax: 204-654-2503
mtalbot@versatile-ag.com | www.versatile-ag.com

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