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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!
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Hi Silvia!
This is our documentation on the issue, but you are welcome to use the community suggestions if needed.
Hi There,
creating a soundtrack over multiple slides - is this possible yet? I think adding audio to a scene would be great... Can't find any way of doing this, it's self pacing so not something I would like to split up audio for.
James
Hi James!
No update on this feature.
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.
James,
Here's a demo I created of a workaround for this in storyline 2. I called it background music, but its just a way to play an audio track across multiple slides. I think the demo is pretty much what Steve was suggesting but using the <audio> tag instead of a soundmanager plugin.
Hope this helps!
WOW!! WOWW!!
This is SO great - thank you for sharing!!
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.
The way i do this ( not only for audio, but also continuously animated backgrounds and video ) is preparing 2 separate Storyline files.
- 1) bg.story. your background file..a 1 page file with seamless audio, video or animations
-2) slides.story. Your actual storyline slides with several pages..
-3) publish your slides.story to html when ready
-4) import your published html as webobject into the bg.story
now you have seamless background audio or video, with a nice flexible setup
Hi Math,
I am trying your steps and have a question, what is the "web address" that I would enter in the web object screen?
Here is what I did that didn't work: I published slides file, then right-clicked on published slides html file and selected open with Internet Explorer. Next, I copied that web address and inserted it into the web object and when I test link it stated to enter a valid web address.
The web address I entered was just the folder path. Do I need to publish the file into our LMS then use that web address?
Thanks,
Dana
Hi, thanks for the suggestion, I tried this with a 3-scene .story, ended up with a 4th scene with music and none on the other scenes. Don't know what I did wrong!
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.
