Playing Background music across all slides - Storyline 360

Hi Dawn,

You are correct in your assumption that you don't need to have the audio file in your Resources tab, but it is a convenient option if you don't mind your users clicking on the Resources tab and having direct access to the audio files. The advantage is that the Resources tab is automatically set up in its own folder (external_files) whenever you publish your SL project to the web and so you don't have to remember to add in the extra folder if you have placed your audio elsewhere.

When you publish your SL project to the web, you should end up with a file structure like this:

If you don't have a Resources tab set up in your Player, you won't have an "external_files" folder.

Having looked at your file and, in particular, your JavaScript, it appears as if you have listed your audio source as the folder location and not the full path, including the file name (note that I don't use SharePoint and so may have missed something here). If that is the case, then you may just need to adjust this to include the full path of your audio.

If you still can't get it to work, what I suggest is to create a new folder in your story_content folder of your published project, such as "audio_files", and place your audio file in there. Then you will need to adjust your JavaScript to something like this:

audio.src="story_content/audio_files/my audio file name.mp3";

Hopefully one of the above options will work for you. If not, you may have to wait for assistance from elsewhere. Alternatively, if you want to try adding your audio to the Resources tab, I am happy to assist.