New in Storyline 360: Background Audio
Apr 04, 2023
We’ve got news that we think will be music to your ears—you can now add background audio to your Storyline 360 courses! Thanks to this highly requested feature you can set the right tone for your training and keep learners engaged by adding a list of audio tracks that play in the background. And to give learners control over the experience and ensure it’s optimal for everyone, they can toggle background audio on and off as needed. Check out this article to learn more about this new feature: Storyline 360: Background Audio.
If you’re an Articulate 360 subscriber, you can access this new feature immediately by updating Storyline 360 via the desktop app. And if you don’t have Articulate 360 but want to try out this feature, you can start a free 30-day trial.
Once you’ve given it a try we’d love to hear what you think! Please share any feedback or suggestions in the comments below. We’ll be working on enhancements for this feature and want to know if there are areas for improvement or additional functionality that you’d like to see. We’re looking forward to your feedback!
~The Storyline 360 Team
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Thanks for this new feature.
We have been waiting for it for so long. However, the background audio has one limitation: it has only ONE playlist for the whole course. It would be better if we could create multiple playlists and choose which playlist applies to different selected slides/scenes. That would be great!
These are some examples from iSpring that you can use as a reference.
Once again, thank you all for the new feature. We're really looking forward to new improvements in the future.
Hi TKDG OES!
Great suggestion! Thanks for sharing feedback on the flexibility you'd like to see when using 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.
Vanessa - It might, yes, but ultimately, when sending the course up the ladder for multiple executives to review, the less instruction I have to impart about how to operate the course, the better. Being able to tell them just hit play and pause is much more direct.
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That is happening to me too. Did you ever get a response?
I found a workaround for the background audio bug, where the background audio doesn't duck, if you jump to the next slide when current slide audio is playing. Hopefully, there will be a fix soon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNQlWD84AT8
Hi Robert,
If you enable "accessibility settings" on the player, the learner can toggle the background music on and off if they'd like.
I hope this helps!
I'm currently experiencing this exact same issue. Hope there's a fix!!
Hello Vanessa,
Do you know if there is a variable we can use to toggle background audio as the shortcut ?
Hello Grégoire,
There is currently no way to toggle the background audio using triggers or variables, but we'll be sure to let you know when this feature makes it to our roadmap for Storyline 360!
I need this too. I want looping audio throughout, don't have any narration, but there is no way to adjust the audio. It's so loud that I can't use it. Surely, there will be an option to adjust overall volume of overall background audio? I'm not using the player but buttons for manual user movement for slides.
Hi Dusti!
Thanks for sharing how you'd like to use background audio in your course!
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.
Like others I really need a way to manually control when the background audio is off/on or at least adjust it's volume myself. The auto reduction in volume is nice however i've got some MP4s that contain no audio and I'd like the background audio not to auto adjust when it encounters these silent videos. I've encoded these videos with no audio track... is the player simply adjusting because it detects a video file period? Any tips on how I can have a video not trigger this auto adjustment in volume? Thanks.
Hi Dusti,
I'm not sure how helpful this will be, but I have been using another program to lower the volume level of the music file itself (I use Camtasia, but there are many other programs that can add an audio compression effect to media), so when I add the edited music file to my Storyline file, it's at a suitable volume level for use as course-wide background music. I suppose it will depend on personal preference and the volume the music file was originally at, but I use a 40–50% audio compression and then adjust the background music setting (to lower volume during narration) on Storyline to 85%.
Hi there, I am using the background music for a step-by-step explanation which I finally want to embedded in Rise. The problem: On my last slide the background music in Rise doesn't stop. It goes on and on.... Any ideas please how to stop this? Thanks
Hi Karl!
It sounds like you were trying to customize the controls for background audio in your Storyline 360 imported Rise course. I'd be happy to share some insight!
At the moment, that type of functionality is not available in Rise 360. However, we currently have a Feature Request logged which would allow you to add custom triggers to control background audio in your Storyline 360 course. I've included your voice, and if that feature makes it on our feature roadmap we'll be sure to update this thread!
Once that feature becomes implemented, you would need to set up custom triggers within your Storyline 360 course first and then reimport it to your Rise 360 lesson.
Please let me know if you have any more questions!
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I think you need to disable the option to lower the music when narration is playing. Or use the old-school workaround and add the music to each slide and add triggers to play and loop the music.
Many thanks Steven, that was exactly what I was looking for. A trigger in Storyline where I can set up when the music has to stop / start / fade. And then import it into Rise360. Looking forward that this hopefulls will come soon. Thanks.
Hi Karl!
Thanks for the feedback and sharing how this exciting new feature will benefit you and your courses!
We'll be sure to update this thread if this feature makes it onto our feature roadmap so you can be notified right away!
Have a great week and happy authoring!
I am having this same issue. Have you gotten a response?
Hi Christine!
Sorry to hear you have also run into the issue where background audio is not playing in your published course!
Currently some course elements like background audio will not appear in a published video.
Not to worry! We already have this logged as a feature request so I will go ahead and add your voice! We’ll update this discussion if this feature makes it on our feature roadmap.
Thanks Team for adding this feature, It will be great if we can control the Background music through triggers too.