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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 Brian,
There isn't a change to this behavior in Storyline, so you'd still need to use the Javascript methods or look to using Studio'13 and the Presenter playlist feature.
Aanything new on this topic? I am looking to add audio across all of my slides.
Thanks!
Hey Shelby!
Have you seen this little gem shared by Emily here?
Glad you found some helpful information here as well Teri :) Thanks for popping in to share. I need to see that kind of enthusiasm first thing.
One way I dealt with this was to use layers to have multiple "slides" all on one slide. It definitely can get tricky and requires the use of way more triggers, but it did the trick.
Here's a point-and-click exploration I created that gives you an idea. I only used three actual slides, with a looping audio file for each:
Thanks for popping in to share your findings as well Wade :)
I just had the same issue and I realized background sound will break when moving to the next slide. Hope Articulate team considers that for future improvement in updates.
Hi Roland,
You may want to take a look at this forum discussion with a really great trick on adding Background audio within Storyline.
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?
