I made a demo featuring background music that goes through the whole course (doesn't change from slide to slide). The user can chose from four songs to listen to and can adjust the volume, and the song continues playing through every slide and loops when it completes. I've also added instructions on how to make this work to the module. I don't know whether someone else has already posted something like this (I couldn't find anything), but hey if so here's one more! Demo ------- I've put together a second demo that shows a different way to do this. This second version performs the same actions as the first one, but without needing to edit the output files every time you publish! It saves a lot of headaches when you need to edit something in the course because now you don't have to drop the music files into the output folder and you dont have to edit the html file every time you publish! Demo 2 I've also attached the second version .story file. Its called Background_Music_Version_2.story. If anyone needs help getting either versions of this to work I'm more than happy to assist :)

Hi Marcee, Since opening the html document is causing you problems I would suggest going with the Version 2 option. 1. Create a variable in storyline called 'Location'2. Create a folder on your desktop, it can be called whatever you'd like. 3. Put all of the music files you want to play in your course in this folder4. create a new file in the folder called 'index.html'. This file can just be blank5. Back in your storyline, create a new slide that the learner will never see6. Create a web object in that slide and link it to the folder you just created with the blank index.html file in it. Make sure to set the web object to load automatically. 7. Publish your file (dont zip) and open the output folder8. Check under story_content/WebObjects folder and copy the name of the web object folder in there. It will be a series of random characters like 'W7auf51LmL'9. In storyline set default value of the 'Location' variable to the path whole path 'story_content/WebObjects/[web object name]'10. Create a trigger that executes javascript when your project starts. 11. paste this javascript into your trigger, it will edit the story.html file for you: //load the scripts dynamically into the head of the documentfunction add_line() { var line = document.createElement("audio"); var head=document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]; line.type = "audio/mp3"; line.src=""; line.id="bgSong" ; line.autoplay = true; line.loop = true; head.appendChild(line);}//but we only want to add these once!if(document.getElementById('bgSong')==null){ add_line();var audio = document.getElementById('bgSong');audio.volume = 0.5;} 12. Now you can play your songs with a trigger like this: var player = GetPlayer();this.Location= player.GetVar("location");var audio = document.getElementById('bgSong');audio.src= location + "SONG1.mp3";audio.load();audio.play(); remember to change 'SONG1.mp3' to whatever the music file you added was named. You can adjust the volume (for narration or sound effects or whathaveyou) with this trigger var audio = document.getElementById('bgSong');audio.volume = 0.6; That should get it working for you, let me know if you run into any more problems!

The reason I set up the audio.src="BrightlyFancy.mp3" was because I made this particular project have multiple songs that can be switch between. In my file I put that line into a JavaScript trigger in the .story file and used the "Execute JavaScript" trigger to switch between songs. If you have just one song you'd like to play, you can just add: <audio src="BrightlyFancy.mp3" id="bgSong" preload="auto" autoplay loop></audio> To your story.html file, where "BrightlyFancy.mp3" is the name of the audio file you'd like to play. Make sure it is located within the <Body> tags and outside of the <script> tags Don't forget to add your audio file to the root of your output folder or else your course wont be able to find your audio file. Hope this helps! If you need to add more control over the background music (more than just having it loop through the whole course) let me know and I can help you get it working! :)

Hi Jane, It is possible to stop the music and resume it while the video is playing. If you execute this javascript trigger it will mute the music: var audio = document.getElementById('bgSong');audio.volume = 0.0; and to resume the music: var audio = document.getElementById('bgSong');audio.volume = 1.0; The file you shared is actually the zipped output file, what I need is the test_background_music.story file. The file that you open in Storyline to edit the course is the file I need. I cannot open any zip files into Storyline.

If you want to stop the song you can run this trigger at the end of the scene or beginning of the next scene. var player = GetPlayer();this.Location= player.GetVar("location");var audio = document.getElementById('bgSong');audio.src = " ";audio.load();audio.play(); This will set the song to nothing, so it wont play anything. If you want to change the music use the same trigger and set audio.src to loctation + the name of your song. You can control when and what song is playing throughout the course. I hope this helps! Let me know if you need any assistance getting it to work :)

Hi Jane, sorry it took so long to respond: I had never considered the returning to course or jumping around the menu! I think that the easiest way to get around this is to drop the javascript triggers into the slide master so they run on every slide in the background. The problem with that though, is that if it runs on every slide then the song will restart every time the trigger fires. BUT I think there is a way around this! So firstly, any of the javascript triggers you are using should be pasted into every slide master main page that you use in the course. That way no matter where the learner jumps in the music should continue start playing. Secondly, we're going to need to edit the javascript so that it checks to see if there is already music playing before starting this song. This will help us avoid the problem of the song restarting every time the trigger runs. You'll want to change this: //load the scripts dynamically into the head of the documentfunction add_line() { var line = document.createElement("audio"); var head=document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]; line.type = "audio/mp3"; line.src=""; line.id="bgSong" ; line.autoplay = true; line.loop = true; head.appendChild(line);}//but we only want to add these once!if(document.getElementById('bgSong')==null){ add_line();var audio = document.getElementById('bgSong');audio.volume = 1.0;}var player = GetPlayer();this.Location= player.GetVar("location");var audio = document.getElementById('bgSong');audio.src=Location+"SONGNAMEHERE.mp3";audio.load();audio.play(); To this: //load the scripts dynamically into the head of the documentfunction add_line() { var line = document.createElement("audio"); var head=document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]; line.type = "audio/mp3"; line.src=""; line.id="bgSong" ; line.autoplay = true; line.loop = true; head.appendChild(line);}//but we only want to add these once!if(document.getElementById('bgSong')==null){ add_line();var audio = document.getElementById('bgSong');audio.volume = 1.0;}var player = GetPlayer();var audio = document.getElementById('bgSong');this.Location= player.GetVar("location");if (audio.duration > 0 && !audio.paused) {// If song is playing and not paused then do nothing}else {audio.src=Location+"Happy.mp3"; audio.load();audio.play();} This should check if the audio is playing or not, and if not then it will load the song again. I haven't tested this yet and unfortunately I can't get around to it until later this week probably, so this is just a theory so far. I hope that it works though! Let me know if there's any problems with this and I can try to help as much as I can.

Background Music Demo | Articulate

NadineHelm
Community Member
9 years ago
Hi

I really like the option to add the sound as Jackson suggests. I need some help though - I can make out whats required in as far as the code entry goes, but I have no idea how to access the component where I can edit and insert the story file...

Any help would really... well.. help!!!
LeslieMcKerchie
Staff
9 years ago
Hi Nadine! I cannot speak to Jackson's example here, but there is a second file shared above with instruction.

I did want to share another example where Emily shares a solution here.
KenManford-9b4e
Community Member
9 years ago
Jackson,

This doesn't seem to work if I am publishing my Storyline 360 story to Articulate Online.
LeslieMcKerchie
Staff
9 years ago
Hi Ken!

I cannot speak to Jackson's masterpiece creation here or assist with JavaScript, but I can say that I upgraded the project to 360 and published to Articulate Online and it seems to be working for me.

Can you try my link here?
02152016
Community Member
8 years ago
I have a question for the group: could anyone help me figure out how to play music across all the slides of just one scene? I just want music during the interactions (a series of slides with drag and drop interactions), and I have all those slides grouped in one scene. Any tips on how to get the music to start at the beginning of the scene and stop when you exit the scene would be greatly appreciated!
- WendyFarmer
  Super Hero
  8 years ago
  I have same requirement Fletcher so I am tagging onto your post
AlyssaGomez
Staff
8 years ago
Hello Fletcher and Wendy!

Although background music across a course is not a built in feature in Storyline, I wanted to share some resources to check out that may help you accomplish what you're looking to do:

How to Loop Audio or Video in Articulate Storyline

How can I make a background music play continuously across multiple slides/layers?

Background Music in Storyline

Background Audio Cool Trick

Hopefully other folks in the community who have tried this before can share their tips and tricks, as well!
AlexandriaLaird
Community Member
8 years ago
Hello Jackson and Others,

Previously I have had success with using the first method and adding background music to the final html output. However, I am running into issues with that method when using Storyline 360 so I decided to try and use the second method and put it directly into the project. Unfortunately I have now tried that a few times with now luck. I have uploaded the story.html output in hopes that one of you may be able to help.

Thanks in advanced!
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- AlexandriaLaird
  Community Member
  8 years ago
  I still am not sure about the second process, however I got the first one to work! I used to add the audio to the story.html output, however with 360 I added it to the story_flash.html output and it worked!
  
  Thanks!
LeslieMcKerchie
Staff
8 years ago
Glad that you were able to get that figured out Alexandria :) I cannot speak to either, but I love the collaboration here and thanks for popping in with an update as well. Hopefully the users in this thread will be able to chime in and further assist if needed.
GabrielFernndez
Community Member
8 years ago
Hi Jackson, I´d tried to see the demo you posted but it couldn't reach the url. I just have the same issue with the audio playing on different slides.
AshleyT-Pollard
Staff
8 years ago
Hey Gabriel,

I'm not sure if Jackson is still subscribed but you can message him directly to see if he's able to offer some help or ideas on this issue. Look for the contact me button on his profile to reach out.