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

YNSWLearning-Gu
Community Member
4 years ago
Hi Jackson and Staff. I'm currently working on Storyline 360 and have tried to add background music using your steps above but it doesn't seem to work for me. Is there an updated tutorial or do these steps still apply?

Would you also mind looking at my storyline file to see what I could be doing wrong? Thanks.
SalesandMarketi
Community Member
3 years ago
HI, I followed the instructions but audio in my course is running just for first slide. Kindly help
JessicaTurner
Community Member
3 years ago
Hi Jackson, Leslie, I have tried the above and it doesn't play the audio file. Am I doing something wrong - what should I check?

alexalberto

Community Member

3 years ago

Hello Jackson Hamner

Can the music playing in the background play automatically when the work is first turned on? When the page is opened for the first time, the mp3 does not play, it remains silent. The sound should play as soon as it is opened for my project. thanks.

RoyKim-da7931f2
Community Member
3 years ago
I always thought these were the most organic sounding recordings and have used them quite often to test out the sound and I like the bands as well. sonnerie gratuite: https://sonneriestelephone.com/
LynGentry
Community Member
3 years ago
I know there are numerous posts about playing music across your course, but has anyone gotten this to work? I have been trying for a couple days now on and off taking breathers because I'm so frustrated. This is the YouTube video I watched. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLjbm4Qgunk
AnamariaLaFonta
Community Member
3 years ago
Has anyone figured out how to attach volume adjustments to the player? I'm pretty sure we need to be able to adjust it in the player for our LMS team to accept it.
- JoseTansengco
  Staff
  3 years ago
  Hi Anamaria,
  
  Storyline 360's player has a built-in feature that lets you adjust the volume of the audio in the course.
  
  You can add this feature by enabling it in Storyline 360's Player settings. Let me know if you have any questions!
KellyAuner
Staff
2 years ago
Hi Bar,

Thanks for reaching out!

Are you able to share your file with us here or privately in a support case? We'll be happy to test your file to see what's going on!
YonathanDebrets
Community Member
5 months ago
Hello Jackson, its not working for me. tho I carefully tried to do it again and again. I also tried it in LMS, but doesn't work.
- EricSantos
  Staff
  5 months ago
  Hello Yonathan,
  
  Thanks for reaching out. This thread is a bit dated, and Jackson may no longer be subscribed to this discussion. Would you be comfortable sharing more details of what you're experiencing? If a screenshot or screen recording would make it easier to explain the behavior, I'd appreciate it if you could also share those.
  
  If you prefer to work with us privately in a support case, you're welcome to do so. In that case, our Support Engineers will work with you one-on-one. Either way, we'd be happy to look into this issue for you!