Playing Background music across all slides - Storyline 360

Hi Eric! While it is great to now have the background audio option, is there a way to select the slide where the audio should start? The issue we are having is that, since the first slide now has media, the black screen with the play arrow is what shows when we embed in Rise. We'd really like our "Start Game" first slide to show instead. Then, after selecting the Start button to go to next slide, the audio would start. 

Thanks for any ideas. 

OMG OMG OMG!   I get updates to this thread regularly and it's generally more of "this javascript didn't work".

And to open the thread this time after YEARS and see that Articulate finally made a way to put music across the project????  WOW!  I cannot TELL you how excited I am!  I just tested it and it was easy-peasy.

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you!

I tried option 3 with no luck. I don't understand why Storyline doesn't just have this without us having to resort to elaborate work arounds.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong but I cannot seem to get any of these methods to work, even after importing my course to my LMS.

Hey - did you get any feedback for storyline 360?

Execute JS at the start of those slides to pause the current audio.
The java script pause() method halts (pauses) the currently playing audio and is often used together with the play() method.

Hi Dawn,

I recently implemented Owen Holt's excellent technique (see 5 months ago above) and it works like a dream for me. I did originally have a couple of problems, but they turned out to be basic errors on my part and so your problem may be quite simple to solve.

Are you able to provide a bit more detail on your issue or, even better, post a copy of your file here, as that would be a big help in solving the problem?

Hi Dawn,

You are correct in your assumption that you don't need to have the audio file in your Resources tab, but it is a convenient option if you don't mind your users clicking on the Resources tab and having direct access to the audio files. The advantage is that the Resources tab is automatically set up in its own folder (external_files) whenever you publish your SL project to the web and so you don't have to remember to add in the extra folder if you have placed your audio elsewhere.

When you publish your SL project to the web, you should end up with a file structure like this:

If you don't have a Resources tab set up in your Player, you won't have an "external_files" folder.

Having looked at your file and, in particular, your JavaScript, it appears as if you have listed your audio source as the folder location and not the full path, including the file name (note that I don't use SharePoint and so may have missed something here). If that is the case, then you may just need to adjust this to include the full path of your audio.

If you still can't get it to work, what I suggest is to create a new folder in your story_content folder of your published project, such as "audio_files", and place your audio file in there. Then you will need to adjust your JavaScript to something like this:

audio.src="story_content/audio_files/my audio file name.mp3";

Hopefully one of the above options will work for you. If not, you may have to wait for assistance from elsewhere. Alternatively, if you want to try adding your audio to the Resources tab, I am happy to assist.

I agree with Ned's assessment that this is probably a URL &/or sharepoint issue. 
I would either use the resource method or the web object "briefcase" method. You can read more about using a web object to import music (or other files) here: LINK