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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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We tried the steps using SToryline 3, we didn't get the same results. Can anyone help?
As far as I can see, the JavaScript solution still works in SL3. See the attached SL3 .story file and the zip of the published content. The .story file has 2 song choices on slide 1 and 2 on slide 2 as well as a volume control dial (found on the slide master). Unzip the file and double click the story_html5.html file.
Hi Owen,
Thank you for posting your example and source files. I used your codes to create an SL file with music that spanning multiple scenes. I also used some of Jason Hamner's codes (https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/background-music-demo?page=3) to auto play a designated music file at the beginning of the scene and stopped at a designated scene. I was also able to go backward in the timeline and the music would auto-restart at the designated scene.
Your volume control button was also very fancy and works wonderfully. However, my course was designed to show the default player volume control. Is there any way to control the background music using the built-in volume control?
Thank you,
Dan
Hi Rovie,
Due to some changes in the published output based on Storyline 3 and 360's shift to allow for HTML5 first/only publishing it changed the way this workaround behaved. I haven't seen an example that someone's created for the latest versions of Storyline - but we'll keep you posted if we see it and link back to this discussion.
Hi Matthew,
Do you have a fix for this?
Thanks:)
see my fix above.
Is this the right thing? It isnt working for me... document is attached.
this is not working in storyline 360.
Hi Nitesh,
Due to some changes in the published output based on Storyline 3 and 360's shift to allow for HTML5 first/only publishing it changed the way this workaround behaved. Owen shared an example that worked for him in Storyline 3 - is that the one you were using?
It seems with all the interest in having a feature like this that the developers would be working to add it to 360.
Hey Daniel - I'm sure that Owen is probably still subscribed to the thread here, but 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 Andrea,
Try making the changes in the published output folder once it's finished publishing in Storyline and don't close down the Publish successful window in Storyline - using the zip button there often works better than manually zipping it.
I cant get this to work in Storyline 3 for some reason. Worded fine in Storyline 2.
