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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 in Storyline. I tried adding the audio to each individual slide, but then whenever the user clicks on a different part of the Engage module the audio would simply restart. Is there any solution to this?
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.
Does this work when publishing to Articulate Online using Storyline 2?
Hi!
If you want to import your published Storyline in Rise, then the audio tag doesn't work anymore. Is there another way to add a continuous background music to a Storyline?
Thank you!
And how can i let te user decide to level up, down or turn off the audio? also in my Project i'm gonna includes some videos with sound, so i need to turn off the music in some slides. Now how can i control this preferences? Incredible that storyline has a lot of opportunities, and still have won award for the best program for E-Learning. Many things that can not be done directly from the program, it helps enough that there is a community that gives us tricks, but currently there are programs like Captivate that if they have these options without the need to resort to tricks.
Hi Marco,
You can add a volume controller in your player for learners viewing on a desktop computer. Volume controller does not display on the mobile devices because those devices have their own volume buttons.
The ability to disable the volume control per slide is a feature request that we are tracking and I'll add this conversation to the report.
Thank you Leslie for taking time to answer. My e-Learning is for desktop computer users so not a problem, but the thing is that the user can't control volumen or turn off audio, because that control on the player just Works for audio on each slide. this control dont work if i do the trick of the "background music" editing the HTML with the script that Emily recomends. I want that the user can handle the option to hear or not the background music for the entire course, and also how can i program that the background music stop on certain slides when there's gonna be a video.
Hi Marco!
The background music Javascript workaround is outside our wheelhouse, but perhaps the folks in this discussion can offer some advice!
Hi Katie,
I see where you reached out here as well and I've just replied.
Just wanted to share for anyone following along.
Hi,
I was looking for this same feature; to add background music to my entire course. I found this article; https://www.swiftelearningservices.com/how-to-play-background-music-continuously-throughout-the-course-in-articulate-storyline-2/
Pls, check it out. I hope it helps.
Thanks
Sajna
I agree too I want to add a SL Block to RIse with continuous background music as well.
I appreciate the help very much! There are 2 audio files but I only put the second one in so it wouldn't seem so disjointed when the users were "zooming" into the information on the layers in each subsequent slide. I would prefer only one track that loops throughout the whole story.
Thanks again! I am looking forward to seeing it work and the explanation about making it happen.
Im sorry that i only now had time get this working.
Basically there is an extra slide not used in the flow, but adding resources that in the end will publish to the storyline_content. A variable with the 'filename.mp3' is set so in the end you only need to change that variable and add any wanted audio to the resources.
At start a Javascript is executed adding the needed code to the HTML and then another Javascript is needed on a trigger to start the background audio playing. As is you cannot use the default Storyline volume button as this only works with inline Storyline audio. I added buttons to pause/play audio. Thats the easiest solution for that. Offcourse you can add the pause/play and the volume control functionality to the default Storyline button, but thats another journey.
Kind regards,
Math
Hello everyone! Is there any update on this subject?
