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background music in Storyline
Hi everybody,
Is there any way to insert background music like in Presenter in Storyline?
Thank you
Hi everyone!
I have some great news to share. We just released another update for Storyline 360. In Update 74, we've included important fixes and new features.
One of the new features we've included is:
- Create immersive experiences with continuous background audio that sets the tone and keeps learners engaged.
Launch the Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer to take advantage of this update, and click the Update button next to Storyline 360. You'll find our step-by-step instructions here.
Please let me know if you have questions!
I have ran into this problem as well - I like the coding idea and will be trying that. But as of now, I slice my music to fit each slide. You know each slide length by the time line, so cutting the music to mach is easy. Now, if this is a presentation and is meant to play with no back button, then no issue. If there is a back button then the sound or audio will restart at the slice made for that slide. The question i have with the coding is if you click the back button for a slide will the music start over? I would think that it should play being it is coded as a loop.
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Martin Dumbrell, your solution worked for me like a charm (in Storyline v2), and I am sooo happy you posted the code!!!
Chuck
I am glad I could help, Chuck ! It was a life saver for me, too.
Thanks Kevin for sharing another example here!
Glad to hear it Elisa! Thanks for sharing :)
So is this still not a standard feature in SL2??
Hi Ashley,
It's not a feature in Storyline 2 - although you can always share your thoughts on features here.
For what it's worth, I tried and then modified the code a bit to successfully get the audio.mp3 to play as a background track. Sad part? I would not play in FireFox. So...back to the drawing board.
Here is the code I used. I only included the <DIV> tag in my example so you would know where in the story.html file I put the <EMBED> tag. See the following.
<EMBED SRC="05 Sensual Sophis-Ti-Cat.mp3" AUTOSTART=TRUE LOOP=TRUE WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1 ALIGN="CENTER">
</EMBED>
<DIV id='divEmail' style="position: absolute; width: 10; height: 10; left: 10; top: 10; visibility:hidden" ></DIV><DIV id='divWebObjects'></DIV>
</body>
</html>Thanks Doug for sharing some of the code you're using here - and I hope you're able to figure out a way to get it to work in Firefox.
Oh, wow. This is such a basic funcitonality. Captivate has done this for years! I may now be regretting buying this product. :-(
Hi Michael,
Background music and playlists are a functionality of Articulate Presenter, but not Storyline. As you'll see in this thread there are a few different ways to accomplish it so hopefully one of those assists you and here is another thread with an example you may be able to use.
