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Background Audio Cool Trick
Hi All,
Just wanted to share a way to add audio across all slides in Storyline 2 There are a few posts on here about this, and I found this method to be super simple.
**Please note that this is just a cool trick, and not a built in feature of Storyline 2.
Publish your course, open the story.html file with Notepad, scroll to the bottom and add this code
<audio src="YOURAUDIOHERE.mp3" preload="auto" autoplay loop></audio> with a space before the </body> and place your audio file into the published output folder and there you go. That is it.
Here is an example, http://bit.ly/1sy5dkV and the output folder is attached.
Have fun!
Hello, Everyone! ✨
I'm happy to share that we have released a new update for Storyline 360 (Build 3.79.30834.0).
In this update, we have an enhancement where:
- Background audio is now supported in the published video output.
As a first step, I recommend updating Storyline 360 to the latest version. Here's how:
If you have any questions, please let us know in this thread or privately in a support case.
Have a great day!
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Hi Milene! You are uploading the content to the server and viewing from that location as your learner would? Viewing locally after uploading may cause issue. I would check out Ashley's solution above as well.
Basically, I am publishing the content to my local drive, adding in the music script, etc. I then place the published folder in our public network drive (S:drive) for our IT folks to upload to our Intranet web server. When clicking the story.html file from the S:drive, it doesn't play the music. For kicks and grins, I placed the music code in the sotry_html5.html folder and when I click on that, it plays. We tried linking to that file on the web server but all it does is play the music and we get a blank display.
You can adjust the volume by using Audacity before you embed file.
Just bring open the audio file adjust volume down and save. (MAKE A BACKUP FIRST)
Hi William, I'm not sure your response was for me, but the volume is not the issue. The music doesn't play altogether once transferred to the web server. Any other ideas out there? Thanks very much.
This is AWESOME! Thanks so much for sharing Emily, what a fantastic workaround!!!
Hi Tom,
Glad to see this is helping so many people :)
Absolutely! The other ways I was thinking to do this weren't exactly elegant. This worked perfectly and took no time to do. Plus, you've made it so anyone can do it – even if you know diddly-squat about HTML coding (like me). Thanks again!
Tom,
I don't know much about coding either, trying to learn, so when I see a simple way to do things, absolutely need to share!
That works great! thanks
This has been a popular one Anna :) Glad it was able to assist you as well and welcome to E-Learning Heroes!
Wondering how to add the code in HTML and .mp3 file when publishing from Storyline 360 to manually upload to Articulate Online. I have the publish settings ready in SL360, but when I try to open the HTML file I get nonsense, and Word won't even open the SL1 file. There is also no folder or anywhere to drop the .mp3 for upload... any help?
