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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!
I have to admit that I'm disappointed. I don't understand why, when this is clearly a feature requested by so many users, the ability to play sound files across slides has not been addressed by Articulate. I've requested it, as I'm sure many others have, but this discussion was started over four years ago, and the capability still doesn't exist even in the new Storyline 360. Same goes for printing and emailing from slides... all this good stuff requires a work-around which is time consuming and arduous. Are these requests ever going to be addressed?
Hi Laura,
There are a few things such as printing and emailing that rely on the browser and email client and therefore we haven't implemented those within Articulate tools as we didn't feel that it was something guaranteed to work consistently. As for the audio across multiple slides, that feature isn't in Storyline but is an option in Studio (Presenter specifically). One of my colleagues did create a method for how to accomplish this in Storyline 2.
Is there a fix for this in Storyline 360?
Hi Joan,
Are you talking about the background audio feature? It's not something that has been included in Storyline yet - but with Articulate 360 you'd have access to Presenter which does include a playlist feature.
If you have questions about other features you’d like to see or know are coming, just let me know. I’m happy to share what I know!
Hello,
Is this a feature included in Storyline 3?
Yep, I'm talking about background audio. There isn't an option to import anything from Presenter to Storyline, is there?
Thanks so much for responding to my question! It will be really cool when this feature is incorporated into Storyline.
Hi Joan,
You can import from Presenter into Storyline as shown here. There are certain features like playlists which won't be imported.
Hello Andrea - I'm not sure if Math is still subscribed here. You are certainly welcome to reach out to the user directly via the 'Contact Me' option on the user profile if you do not hear back soon.
Hi Jaclyn,
Background audio and playlists are not yet a feature of Storyline 3.
Thanks for checking in on this feature!
This was 2 years ago, how about now, keen to achieve the same thing?
Hey Alastair - I know that Emily shared a cool audio trick here if you'd like to check it out. Not sure what version of Storyline you are using.
Any updates on this? I'm a new user and very surprised there is not an easy, built in solution for playing audio over multiple slides - possible selecting slides from "storyview" for audio file.
