Background Music keep playing.

Hi Dominic!

Thanks for reaching out! I've included your voice in the feature report and will update this discussion if it makes it onto our feature roadmap!

Have a great start to your week!

I came up with a solution to pause the background audio for a single slide, and it could potentially be used to end the background audio at the end of the last slide in a module. Not sure about fade out, but you could stop it.

Accessibility controls need to be enabled in the player for this to work.

If you do not want to actually show the accessibility controls:
On the first slide of the course, execute javascript when timeline starts.
var link = document.getElementById('settings');
link.style.display = 'none';
link.style.visibility = 'hidden';

On the slide that you want to turn the background music off, execute javascript when timeline starts.
var thisVariable = GetPlayer().GetVar("musicOn");
if (thisVariable == 1) {
document.getElementById("backgroundAudio-switch").click();
GetPlayer().SetVar("musicOn",0);
}

On the slide before and after the "turn it off" slide, execute javascript when timeline starts
var thisVariable = GetPlayer().GetVar("musicOn");
if (thisVariable == 0) {
document.getElementById("backgroundAudio-switch").click();
GetPlayer().SetVar("musicOn",1);
}
(this is different than the one above. Copy it very carefully.)

Create a new number variable in the project, name it musicOn. Default value 1.

Hi Amanda! 

I appreciate you taking the time to share what you’d like to see in Storyline 360. 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.

Have a great start to your week! 🎉

Amanda pretty much sums up what I am looking for correctly. I would appreciate the ability to use a trigger to play and pause background music when the play button on the video controls is clicked to either play or pause. This would be a great update.

Oh, just read the other replies!

Yes, it seems like music stopping when you hit PAUSE and resuming when you hit PLAY is not really a Feature Request, right? It's fixing an obvious error in design?

Hopefully that gets prioritized differently lol. 

Backgound music plays on first slide for a brief second, although a trigger is set "Pause audio Playlist when timeline starts on this slide". Anyone else have this problem?

Thank you, Lauren. My company needs the feature too, to be able to pause background music when pausing the video. 

this is a known limitation of background music and trigger

the first (user defined) trigger is fired long after the button on a black background is displayed and the background sound is startet

but you can change the "black" background to another color or an image