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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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Gotcha. My next suggestion was going to be to make sure you placed your audio file into the published output folder (this is where I goofed), but you said you've done that... hmmm...
Update. I got the audio to play in the HTML 5 output. Now, I am trying to figure out how to get the music to fade at certain points to allow for narration in the presentation. Any java code experts for this one?
Ooo, I gotta tap out here... :D lol I'm not the java script expert you're looking for! Good luck! Please post your results if you can, as I would love to know how you accomplish that!
Hi I have added the code in the story_html5 and uploaded onto our LMS (SuccessFactor). However, the BGM doesn't seem to be working. Apart from that, everything runs smoothly.
I have then remove the code and added in the index_lms_html5 and it worked. But it is not allowing the LMS to record completion. The system is unable to mark complete although all slides are visited. Any other solution on this?
Regards
Leslie
I'm able to save my file as html5, added the code for seamless audio in notepad, and can hear the audio. Once I upload the file to AWS, the audio is fine. Once I add the link to Canvas, the audio no longer plays. I'm working on Mac Parallels, not sure if that's part of the problem?
Appreciate any feedback, thanks -
Thanks for the sharing.
QQ: Is this code working fine in Storyline 3 as well. I find challenge to work it out in Storyline 3.
Attached is the HTML5 file.
Help!
hi
how insert background music in storyline3?
I use SL3 and I got this to work, but I had to struggle a bit to learn how to do it. Here's what I did:
Note that when I would publish it created a folder that contained many files, two of which we will focus on:
story.html
and
story_html5.html---
1. In your story.html file, open it with notepad (or your favorite html editor) BEFORE (NOT BETWEEN) the </body> and </html> tags, place this code snippet:<audio src="NAMEOFYOURAUDIOFILE.mp3" preload="auto" autoplay loop></audio>
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2. In your story_html5.html file, open it with notepad (or your favorite html editor) BETWEEN (NOT BEFORE) the </body> and </html> tags, place this code snippet:<audio src="NAMEOFYOURAUDIOFILE.mp3" preload="auto" autoplay loop></audio>
***I made sure to put a space and a hard return after the code snippet, as was instructed in the original post, and that appeared to help.
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3. Make sure to put the mp3 file in the folder at root level (meaning in the same folder as the story_html5.html file). Make sure the file name of the mp3 matches the name in the code precisely!
I've used this trick before, and it was very helpful. But recently it no longer works in Chrome. Still works in IE and Fire fox though.
It sounds like it's a result of a new decision by chrome to mute autoplay adds, and my embedded audio is getting caught up in it.
Has anyone else encountered this, and have a new work around?
Hello! I found this trick reaaaally cool and useful but I'd really need to solve this issue with Chrome too :(
Please please please Storyline developers add this feature to the next player upgrade!!!
I am unable to use any of these methods. Do we have an update on how to add music to run through all slides?
as long as you are not developing for the mobile player, the javascript solution still works great if you use some interaction to start it. The user has to interact with the page to get around the chrome updates.
