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Audio Issue (working on preview but does not play when published)
Hello PragyaSinha-c97,
Happy to help!
The behavior you're running into is a limitation of most modern browsers, which prevents audio from automatically playing unless a viewer interacts with the slide. This behavior is described in this official Google post. As a workaround, you can introduce a button on the very first slide of your course that requires learners to interact with the content to allow the audio on the second slide to play automatically. Here's an edited version of your course so you can see the workaround in action.
Hope this helps!
We're testing a course today and running into the same issue. Sometimes I have to completely close out of the course and restart it for the audio to play.
Hey RachelleSelvog,
I'm sorry to hear you're also running into this setback.
Are you seeing this behavior when testing the course in an LMS, or after it's been published to Review 360?
We're happy to take a closer look at the .story file that's giving you trouble. Do you mind uploading a copy here or through a support case?
Hi StevenBenassi,
We were seeing this occur in our staging LMS environment while testing the course. We decided to upload the course in our production environment and so far there's been one glitch of audio tracks overlapping during playback. Since it appears to be mostly an issue of our stage environment, we won't open a support case unless we start encountering more issues in production.
Hello RachelleSelvog,
Thanks for letting us know it's happening in your LMS environment. That's helpful!
- What LMS are you currently using?
- I'm curious, what publishing settings did you select when publishing your course?
As a troubleshooting step, I recommend checking to see if this behavior is isolated to your LMS by uploading your course in SCORM Cloud.
If you're still experiencing this within your LMS, our Support Engineers would be happy to take a closer look at your setup within a support case.
Thank you for the follow up! We use Meridian LMS and publish a SCORM 1.2 file.
It turns out that it may not be our LMS after all. When I was testing on Tuesday, I was in the office, so I was not on our VPN and that is when I tested in Production. Yesterday, I was working from home and when I continued testing in Production, the audio issues started again. My teammate noted that Monday and yesterday I was on the VPN when testing. So I disconnnected from the VPN and did not experience any audio problems. I'm working from home today so I'm going to continue testing while not connected to the VPN and see what happens.
