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

iouliaKornbe475
Community Member
5 years ago
I know this is a VERY old post but I'm trying to do the same with no luck.

Please note that I don't know anything about coding, I'm just following instructions!

I am publishing to LMS using SCORM 1.2. I tried to add this Javascript (see bold)

</head>
<body style="background: #282828" class="cs-HTML theme-unified">
<audio src="NAMEOFFILE.wav" id="bgSong" preload="auto" autoplay loop></audio>

<script>!function

I'm still getting NO audio. Anyone have any thoughts?
iouliaKornbe475
Community Member
5 years ago
Hi Jackson,

I know this thread is old, but I followed all the steps using this page and also Mark Sperman's YouTube video which walks you through all of your steps above (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLjbm4Qgunk).

Unfortunately, it's still not working for me.

I am sharing my Storyline 360 source file here. Would you be able to take a look to see what is wrong?

Let me also ask if I was supposed to do anything different besides publish the course as normal to LMS using SCORM 1.2? I did that, but no audio plays when I preview it, or when I double-click story.html. I even published it to my LMS, and still nothing.
MEDICS_101_-_Test.story312.5 MB
DarleneBailey
Community Member
5 years ago
I have tried to get this to work today without any luck. I wish this was easier to do! :) I was working with a template I found on Articulate Hero for a quick Leader introduction. Any input would be helpful.
story.html11 KB
OanhHoang
Community Member
5 years ago
Hi there,

I have download your Background_Music_Version_2.story for a test and it worked perfectly well as Web or Scorm1.2. However, I followed carefully every step of yours but it didn't work for me. Could you please help me take a look at my file.

Thank you
Background_music_test.story3.3 MB
KatKlein-6aaf49
Community Member
4 years ago
I can't seem to get either version of these solutions to work :( I've attached my .story and .mp3 files. Any help is appreciated!
Test_Background_Music_Course.story5.3 MB
Aspiration_Background_Audio.mp34.5 MB
AlvaroAviles
Community Member
4 years ago
Hi! these Demos doesn´t work any more... any tip to set up Audio volume control?

Audio is working on my entire project, but it has a pretty high volumen...

Thank you!!
RenGomez
Staff
4 years ago
Hi Alvaro,

Thanks for reaching out, and I'm sorry you didn't get a response from Jackson! If you're able to share your file with our support team here, they'll be able to test your file and provide steps on adjusting your volume!

In the meantime, one quick tip is to check the quality settings when you're publishing the course. If the Optimize Audio Volume box is checked, it will normalize all of the audio. Uncheck that box, and let me know if that improves the experience!
BrettGrover-769
Community Member
4 years ago
PLEASE HELP! I cannot get this background music to work.
NEO_Leadership_Updated1BACKGROUND_MUSIC_TEST_FILE.story66.4 MB
NEO_Matrix_History_3.19.zip30.6 MB
- Will_Findlay
  Community Member
  4 years ago
  It's not worth pursuing. Browser security around audio is a lot tighter than when this was first done. If you get it to work, its likely another update is going to break it in the future.
MadhuBibikar
Community Member
4 years ago
Going by recent replies to this thread, I take that this solution no longer works with Google Chrome v66 or higher? I can't get it to work. Has anyone figured out another workaround?
MustafaAkpolad
Community Member
4 years ago
Does anyone know if this simple feature will ever get added to Storyline? Are there any workarounds that work regardless of browser security restrictions?