Background Music per Scene

Hi Michel!

Thanks for sharing feedback on the flexibility you’d like to see when working with background audio!

We currently have this logged as a feature request, so I’ll go ahead and include your voice! We’ll update this discussion if this feature makes it on our feature roadmap.

I've tried the same as you have (hiding a video in the slide, adding an audio file, lowering the volume of the background music). Nothing really worked for me in terms of getting the background audio to stop playing for certain scenes, having a different audio play for quiz slides, and restarting the background audio. Hopefully, future iterations of this feature will allow the flexibility to determine on which slides the background music plays. 

I have tried several times and trying out some javascript code but it still does not play a continuous background audio on specific slides and scenes. It either reset on each slide or stops halfway completely. Being able to control when and where the background audio plays is very useful in creating a professional e learning experience

use on every slide with background music the "on timeline start" trigger

if( !DS.courseAudio.enabled() ){
    DS.courseAudio.toggleEnabled();
}

use on every slide without background music the "on timeline start" trigger

if( DS.courseAudio.enabled() ){
    DS.courseAudio.toggleEnabled();
}

result (chapter 1 with music, chapter 2 without music):

https://360.articulate.com/review/content/58d38875-4f87-43e5-be46-7c8d6430a72d/review

Update: don't use these script - there are problems with Chrome/Edge (tested with Storyline 3.80)

Thanks for sharing a possible JavaScript solution, Jürgen!

Hyun, I added your voice to the feature request for the ability to disable or mute background audio in Storyline 360. Thank you for letting us know it would be helpful to you as well!

If you need help with anything else, please let us know here in the E-Learning Heroes Community or privately in a support case. We'll be happy to assist you!

I have a playlist for my background audio and i have the setting selected that the audio lowers by 90% when my current slide audio is playing, but the background audio still seems too loud. I still want the background audio to play, just not that loud so the user can still hear it faded in the back. I've updated it to 99% lowered and its still too loud.  I've tried it all, but nothing seems to work to make it less loud. I've tried 50% and that was WAY too loud. 

At this point, I am having to raise my slide audio volume so that its louder than the background.

Any suggestions?

Hi can you provide specific instructions for what triggers/variables to set up to stop background music automatically playing on the first slide/scene to allow the music to only start on the second slide or when the user clicks a button.