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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 Wilson,
Emily's original code does not work in SL3/360 based on changes made to the publishing engine, but you may want to take a look at the example shared by Owen earlier to use the Javascript. I linked back to one of his examples here.
Thanks for the update.
Original requests for this feature go back 5 years. A couple years ago Emily finally comes up with a work around to make up for Articulate's lack of development of desired features. Then you break the work around with the new release? Frankly, someone over there isn't thinking.
Just give us the damn feature already.
Agreed. I see more emails about this topic than any other.
This is great! Thank you for sharing.
Hi
This works great locally but when I upload it to Tempshare for testing the music is gone.
Does anyone have any ideas why it wouldn't work? Thanks
Hi Phil,
I haven't heard that the music goes missing in Tempshare - does the rest of the course play normally? How did you publish it, with HTML5 included or not?
Hi Emily, this was so helpful! I do know html and js but I dont know how to deal with this storyline. So thank you so much. For reference, if you cant make it to work in chrome try it in microsoft edge or IE cause chrome doesnt work to me either. Cheers!
Thanks Flor for that update - glad you found this resource helpful!
This is awesome!! Worked perfectly for a system video demo I built. We decided against voice over and simply wanted instructions on the screen and background music this was an excellent work around! Thank you so much for the post!
I haven't been able to find a work around this issue. I'll post this as a feature request and I recommend anyone needing this in their work do the same.
I tried the JS solution, but found it too cumbersome and worried about support for SCORM and our LMS. So, my solutions so far are to 1) use Storyline 360 and build everything in 1 slide with an imported audio file and then develop all the content in a TON of layers, or 2) use different product like Captivate or Camtasia.
I've used the JS solution on Sl1, SL2, and SL3 without any issue when publishing to web or using scorm on our lms. I don't find it to be cumbersome at all.
What would be cumbersome to me would be building an entire course on one slide!
I was able to have it work in my project. The issue that I encounter was that the audio narrations added on each slides are not playing. Would you happen to have a workaround on this?
