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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!
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Hey everyone - this is great! I was pleased to find a solution. I have gotten it to work by updating the code as in an earlier post. However, I have two questions/issues:
1. When it's playing in the browser, if I pause the Storyline piece, the background music continues to play. Is there any way around this?
2. The volume is a bit high on the music as compared to my voiceover. Is there anyway to code in the level of the volume of the background music? Or would I need to edit the sound file somewhere else first (to lower volume)?
Thanks,
JenJen - can you send me instructions so I can figure this out? I have the snippet of code to use but I cannot tell where to insert it in the story.html file?
Also - does my mp3 file sit in the main root folder or in the story_content folder?
In the previous posts, find the code...... is blank.
What code are you referring to?
I would also like some guidance on this please?
Jen - Where did you put the code (Christine mentioned earlier) in your html file?
So at least two have figured this out but not shared their solutions. Thanks
I need this solution. Please repost the hole code. I dont know where to put this:
I found an easier way
Add the following code in the file story.html before the final </body> tag
<audio src="1.wav" preload="auto" autoplay loop></audio>
Where "1.wav" is the name of the audio file you want to use. The file must be in the root
directory with story.htmlThis will cause the file to loop throughout the presentation.
e.g.
<audio src="1.wav" preload="auto" autoplay loop></audio>
</body>
</html>Martin,
SWEET!!! I saw this post and even though it's not something I need at the moment, I thought I would give it a try... and it worked beautifully! Thanks for sharing this info!
Just a reminder to users that the audio file that they are using should be dropped (saved) in the story_content folder and the code should include a reference to this location, such as:
<audio src="story_content/1.wav" preload="auto" autoplay loop></audio>
Martin,
I followed your instructions and they were the only ones that worked for me while trying to put the background music across all the slides in a Storyline. Thank you very much! :~)
Hi Elisa,
I am happy to have helped. So much variation across versions of app, device, os ...etc.
Thanks for sharing Alan!
Thanks Fletcher for coming back around to this! It always helps as other users may stumble upon it and appreciate your help. :-)
Hi, Ashley. It's been so long since this thread was started, I decided I should reach out to you directly. I have music on a base layer, and even though the other layers have "pause timeline on base layer" deselected, clicking on a button to advance to the next layer makes the music on the base layer stop playing. Any idea why this is happening?
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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