Audio timeline bars in articulate storyline

Hi Jeanette,

Thank for the quick response, I have a attached a image below.  As you can see I have a audio file on the bottom left with a play and pause buttons for its interactivity.

But, what I would prefer is that I would click a button and it would open the audio file and the seekbar would be inside the project and not on the outside in the player.

Ben,

One solution would be to convert the audio file into a video format (SWF, FLV, MP4, etc.) and then show the video controls.

I've attached an example.  I've simply taken an mp3 file, converted to SWF, inserted into the movie via (insert video), and then selected show video controls.

Mike

Hi Ben - I'm sorry, currently the only way to include a seekbar is on the player itself; there's not an option to add a seekbar to the actual slide, although that would make a great feature request!

Ooh, nice idea Mike!

PERFECT!  great idea thank you both for your help

Ben,

The only catch is that if you wish to play it on the iPad, then the swf will be a problem.  Thus, I'd convert it to MP4 instead.  But the same process should work.

Mike

Hi Mike two questions:

1.- How convert mp3 to mp4? and 2.- How convert mp3 to swf? to work in articulate storyline.

Thanks and regards

Sergio,

You can use a free tool   such as Format Factory.

Mike

Does the player control scrubber work in HTML5?

Hi Jason,

I saw your other post here, and I would suggest that you submit a Support case so that they can take a look at your file. 

In general though, do you know if the player's default control bar/scrubber works with HTML5?

Hi Jason - yes, the seekbar does work with HTML5. 

Hi,

The conversion method from Mike worked a treat with my project! I have no player bar with my project, and this solutions works perfectly...!

Thank you for the top tip!

Tracey

Can I take that to mean that it works on iPad?

Hi Jason,

You are correct. Here is a listing of all the features indicating what works for Flash, HTML5 and the Articulate Mobile Player for iPad. You'll see the seekbar towards the bottom in Player features.

Hi Guys,

I have 60 audio files to convert, and I love this solution, however FormatFactory does not allow you to convert an MP3 file to an MP4.

MP3 files are not a valid file format for input when converting to video.

I know I can do this manually by importing and exporting in Adobe Premier, but I'm really hoping there is a quicker way. Any suggestions?

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I feel so silly, but I'll leave this here in case anyone else wants the fix. 

Just change the file extension from .mp3 to .mp4 - it works.

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Thanks,

Cal. 

Hi Cal,

Just wanted to thank you for leaving both the issue and the solution here. That may be very helpful to anyone else that runs into the same issue in the future.

Thanks again and have a great day!

Actually - it didn't work :(

Changing the file extension was OK for

Windows. It'll play as a video in Windows Media Player. In PowerPoint it will do a conversion on import and then play with the timeline bar, but Storyline is way too clever, and just tells me its not a valid Video file. (It won't be tricked )

I tried putting it into Powerpoint, then importing it into Storyline, but Storyline is too clever for that too.

So, does anyone have a quick way of converting 60 audio files from MP3 to MP4 without placing each one into Premier (or something similar) and then exporting them again?

So yes does anyone one know of any way to best convert .mp3 files to .mp4? I have iMovie, GarageBand, FreeMake Video Converter, and Any Video Converter programs and none of them seem to work. I am also wanting to have controls and a slide bar on my audio files in my course and knowing how best to convert these audio files would be really awesome blossom if anyone can help?!!!!

I'm also looking for an option to add audio controls that are associated with an audio clip rather than the player. Mike's solution illustrated in the Ben.story file is perfect, but I can't get it to work. I run into the same problem as Cal. Storyline 2 seems to reject .mp3 files that have been converted to .mp4s. Has anyone found a solution?

Hi, Jodi -- Thanks for reaching out and sorry to hear you are having difficulties! As this thread is somewhat older, you are welcome to contact participants directly using the 'Contact Me' link provided on their individual profile pages. You would also be welcome to share your files if you'd like us to take a closer look for you. 

Hi Jodi

are you using SL 1 or SL2?

I have done this successfully using Articulate Replay what are you using to do the conversion? and once converted is the MP4 playing outside SL?

Hi Mike,

I realise it's an older thread, however Articulate 2 does not allow me to  import an MP4 as a valid media. Have you come across a workaround for this? I am really am trying to avoid creating a million different buttons due to time constrictions.

Hi Amra,

What message do you see when trying to import the MP4? You may want to look at converting it to a different profile or codec, using a tool such as Handbrake or Format factory. You can see here the different file types that are supported, how to import them and MP4s are supported in Storyline 2.