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Continuous background music in Storyline 360
I am creating a Storyline project that has multiple slides with Engage interactions. In Presenter I could add continuous music by making a Playlist. However, this option doesn't seem to be available...
Hi everyone!
Good news! I'm happy to share that we just released Storyline 360 (Build 3.81.31200.0), which includes a feature to control the background audio for each slide using triggers to play, pause, or stop the playlist.
This was highly requested, so we hope it serves you in your course creation! If you run into any snags, don't hesitate to contact our team in a support case.
I will be telling my client 'I'm sorry but the authoring software does not support this very basic functionality. Perhaps for future e-Learning endeavours you should look into other, more full-featured and modern software options and re-evaluate your enterprise license with this company.'
If clients ask me something thats not default in the tools at hand, i tell them... well anything is possible..but that is not default in the tools. So we can make it happen ( and with Javascript you can make anything happen in Storyline up to multiplayer games ! ) but we have to develop that ourselves. Sometimes clients dont want it then... and sometimes clients get enthusiast and want us to make it.
I happen to be well versed in Javascript and need a solution using
StoryLine that’s guaranteed to work on all platforms (including mobile) so
my hands are tied. I can certainly include the file in a webobject and use
html5 audio but that in itself brings desktop only and additional problems
and complexity. What if my users want to control the volume of the bgm?
Mute it when a video plays? It’s not accessible by triggers and now I will
have to write additional javascript play/pause/resume complexity that is
*not maintainable* by the non-javascript staff who will be inheriting the
project. I can certainly fix these problems with JavaScript, it’s just not
a good idea. If my client runs into problems down the line they can’t ask
Articulate for help because Javascript is “not supported”.Yes, all true. Those are the limitations of rapid authoring tools like Storyline. The competiting tools have the same flaws. They might have some benefits on specific parts, but in the end your limited to what the tool gives default. And in the end you then have to decide...do i stand up with the limitations a specific tool has... do i check out competitors if some might be better ( i have worked in the major 3...Lectora, Captivate and Storyline...they all arenot perfect ) or develop your own toolset. Quite some companies i worked for did this. Some with succes...some not.
Personally i love extending the limits of rapid authoring tools and make things happen that aren't in the box.
