Background Music
Add music to your digital signage playlists or individual slides to create the right mood for any setting. Background music keeps your screens engaging, enhances ambiance, and helps deliver a complete customer experience.
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The Background Music feature in Play lets you bring your screens to life with sound. Easily add music to an entire playlist for a consistent vibe, or tailor the audio for specific slides to match different messages or moods. Whether you want upbeat tunes in a retail space, calm ambience in a lobby, or custom themes for promotions, background music helps shape the atmosphere your audience feels. With flexible setup options and full integration into Play Signage, it’s never been easier to manage and play audio across your displays.
The Background Music plugin lets you add continuous audio to your digital signage screens — whether it's ambient music, branded soundtracks, motivational tracks, or subtle background audio — to create a more engaging and immersive experience for your audience.
Adding audio files
- Go to your library
- Click Upload Assets
- Find the files you'd like to upload
If you are uploading a bunch of files they end up in the upload cue, and may not be available for a couple of minutes.
Adding background music to a playlist
- Go to Playlists
- Click Add Background Music
- In Available Tracks, you'll see all audio files uploaded to your library
- Click Play to listen to the file
- Drag the files into Tracks in Playlist to add them as background music for your playlist
- Click Save
Change the playlist order
- Go to Playlists
- Click Add Background Music
- In Tracks in Playlist, drag the files up or down to change the playlist order
- Click Save
Remove background music from a playlist
- Go to Playlists
- Click Add Background Music
- Click Remove next to the files you don't need
- Click Save
Adding music to an individual slide
- Go to Playlists and open the playlist
- Find the slide or add a new slide
- Click Plugins
- Search or find Background Music
- Click Background Music
- Find the audio file you'd like playing on the slide and click +
- Click Publish
You'll notice the file name now appear on your slide, but fear not, this is not visible on your screens. If you prefer, you can move it outside the canvas.
Removing music from an individual slide
- Go to Playlists and open the playlist
- Find the slide
- Click the audio file and click Remove, or hit backspace on your keyboard
- Click Publish
If you don't see the audio files on the canvas, go to layers, click the audio file and click Remove or hit backspace on your keyboard.
Adjust the volume for music added to a slide
- Go to Playlists and open the playlist
- Find the slide
- Click the audio file
- Adjust the volume in settings
- Click Publish
Can I add a radio station instead?
Sure, you can add Live Streaming Radio or local files from your library. Check out this article, Live Streaming Radio
What type of audio files does Playlists in Digital Signage support?
We recommend using .mp3, however, .wav .ogg .m4a, and .flac files are also supported, but converted to .mp3
Can I pause the audio for some slides that have videos?
Yes, once you have added some background soundtracks, there is an additional option available in the slide settings. To find this setting, open the slide for which you want to pause the music. Open slide settings (the page where you’d change slide duration) and click on the “Advanced” section.
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