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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.
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Adding to this thread to request a continuous audio option. This would help tremendously. There was an update today and I was hopeful this would be one of the features, but it was not.
Does anyone have a way that works currently (as in today, 2022) when you want to publish to video format? I've tried all of the steps I can find and none work.
Ofcourse none of these options mentioned here will work when exporting to video. As they are all browserbased.
Personally i never use Storyline for creating videos. AfterEffects, Premiere, Vimeo , Blender and tools like that are 2000% better in creating animation and video. Blender is open source and there are also a lot of free opensource alternatives for AfterEffects.
I agree with the requests. This is an option that should be present in Storyline.
Continuous background music in Storyline 360 using JavaScript is good.
But the problem is that when we revisit the course using the bookmarking option to resume the course, the music is not playing.
What recommendations do you have for how to solve this issue?Add the code to a Master Template. Then it will be triggered on every slide using that. To prevent unneccessary loading you can add a if/then to check if it already been loaded before... if so dont trigger it.. a boolean variable will do the trick for that.
I, also, would like to add to the request of the feature to apply background music to my projects. I convinced my employer to pay for this software and now I find out that I can't complete my training videos the way I was asked to do because of very expensive software that I asked for. So disappointed.
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!
This feature looks amazing! One question, when creating a playlist, is there a way to direct the music to only certain slides? I would like to end a project with light music, but don't want it playing the whole time. Is it an all or nothing kind of thing?
Hi Erin,
Thanks for reaching out; I'm glad you're enjoying the new feature!
There is currently no way to direct the background audio to only specific slides, but we'll be sure to let you know when this additional feature makes it to our roadmap for Storyline 360!
Finally!! This is amazing!!!
Hi Elisse,
Thanks for sharing your feedback on the new background audio feature of Storyline!
Enjoy the rest of your day, and happy developing! 🙂
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.
Any change you're working on adding a variable to allow users to skip to the next song on the playlist? I'm working on a course that has a playlist of several subtle lo-fi tunes in the background. I already added volume controls but I wanted the users to be able to skip through if there's one they're not a fan of.
