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Audio over multiple slides in Storyline
I know that in Articulate Storyline you have to break up your audio by slide. I have some music I'd like to play over multiple slides. When I break up the music by slide though there seems to be a half second delay between slides which makes the music sound choppy, Is there any fix for this? I welcome any and all ideas 
Hi everyone!
I have some great news to share. We just released another update for Storyline 360. In Update 74, we've included important fixes and new features.
One of the new features we've included is:
- Create immersive experiences with continuous background audio that sets the tone and keeps learners engaged.
Launch the Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer to take advantage of this update, and click the Update button next to Storyline 360. You'll find our step-by-step instructions here.
Please let me know if you have questions!
Thanks for popping in to share Jackson :)
Instead of using multiple slides - could you convert your slides to layers, and have the music playing on base layer?
Another good thought Jeff - and you'll just want to ensure you set the layer properties to work with the base layer (i.e. not pausing the base layer, etc). You can read more about the layer properties here.
That's a solution I hadn't heard before for the background audio in Storyline - I'm curious if you have an example to share of how this looks once set up so that others in the community could take a look. Does the background file include a long timeline to have the audio or the functionality to loop it by jumping to the same slide again and replaying?
Hi Ashley, i was preparing a sample with looping video background. But then projects bulked en masse. Will try to wrap that up and a audio one too soon.
Ashley, I was able to create a bg.story file at Math described and then set it to loop using a trigger to play media when the media ended. This permitted a nice fade out-fade in transition so it sounded seamless.
My question for Math is how do I set the bg.story so that the embedded HTML file fully fills the stage area?Hi Richard,
For audio... put your speakers so wide from eachother that your sure they cover any screen resolution... ;-) Just kidding on that one...
If you got images or video... make sure both bg.story and slides.story are the same size and big enough to cover the stage area. Another option might be using CSS to create a looping bg in the bg.story.Hi Richard,
Glad you were able to get something set up - you may also want to look at the player/browser settings as detailed here in terms of how the content will scale to fill the browser window and then also the story size that you're setting for both of the stories.
I am searching this topic, as I am about to present internally on my work-around for this. The course I was doing was short - an animated video of sorts. So, rather than putting the content on different slides, I made one slide with all the content on it. This way I could run one audio file in the background. Make for an 'intense' Timeline - but it worked. I was able to use the other features of Storyline that programs like GoAnimate did not accommodate and have audio playing throughout.
This portion of my course ended up being 159 seconds long.
I was thinking to try this approach too for a while. One big advantage to your approach is, you can tween pages into each other any way your imagination wants. You all know those kinetic typographic animations... well with Linda's onepage-approach ( let's give it a name ) you can rotate, tween scaleup and down anything you want with the complete content and thus achieve cool looking transitions.
To illustrate what comes to my mind... something like this...and when your on page 1 and click next..or anything else...your complete pageset will change/rotate whatever.
Hi Linda!
Articulate Storyline doesn’t support background music or audio that spans across multiple slides. When you import a PowerPoint presentation into Storyline that includes Articulate Presenter playlists, the playlists won't be imported.
Not sure if you are looking for community feedback or just popping in to share the status of your project.
I'm sure the community would love to check it out if you could share :)
Thanks. I was popping in to make sure the functionality hadn't change since I worked on this project. (didn't want my presentation to be obsolete). :)
Thank you!
Linda
