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Background audio

Tracks of music or voice-over play while visitors explore the tour. Open Project settings › Background audio:

  • Add tracks: Upload files… (MP3, M4A, WAV or OGG; pick several at once, or drop them on the panel) or Choose from library…. Uploaded files count towards your storage.
  • Where each track plays: click Choose scenes… on a track. All scenes plays it everywhere, including scenes added later. Chosen scenes plays it only on the scenes you tick, for example a voice-over for the living room’s scenes. The tour’s first track plays on all scenes; tracks added after it don’t play until you choose their scenes.
  • Across scenes: a track keeps playing as visitors move between its scenes. It stops when they leave those scenes, and starts from the beginning when they come back.
  • With a track on all scenes: a track on chosen scenes pauses the tracks set to all scenes while visitors are on its scenes; they carry on once visitors leave. To hear both together, untick Pause tracks set to All scenes in Choose scenes….
  • Volume and loop: set for each track. A track that doesn’t loop plays once per visit to its scenes.
  • Replace or remove: use the ⋮ menu on a track. Replace with a file… and Replace from library… keep the track’s scenes. Removing or replacing can be undone for 10 seconds; after that, the old uploaded file is deleted.
  • Playback: Auto pause pauses the audio while the visitor’s browser tab is hidden. Auto unlock starts it at the visitor’s first click or tap, because browsers don’t play sound before then.
  • A scene’s own audio: set it in the scene’s Settings › Background Audio. It starts each time visitors open that scene, and Pause project audio pauses the project’s tracks while it plays.
  • Visitors turn all audio off and on with the theme’s sound button. While it’s off, nothing starts until they turn it back on.