Background Music

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.

How it works in simple steps:

1. Upload your audio files. In your PlaySignage account, go to the Library and upload your music files (MP3, WAV, or other supported formats). You can also organize them into dedicated music folders for easy management.
2. Select your background music for a playlist. From the playlist overview, find your playlist and click Add background music. Now drag music files from available tracks to tracks in your playlist (You can add as many as you like). When you've added your files click Save.
3. Add background music to a slide. Open your playlist and find the slide where you'd like background music added (Keep in mind only the slide where you add it will have background music). Open Plugins and click Music and Radio. Click the background music you want playing on the slide. (You'll notice a audio icon and the files text on your canvas, if you don't wanna look at it, simply move it off your canvas).
   1. Adjust the volume. Use the slider to set the volume of your background music.
   2. Loop. Toggle on or off loop track.
4. Publish and enjoy. Hit Publish. The music will start playing automatically on your screens as soon as the playlist or slide runs. It continues seamlessly in the background while your images, videos, text, and other plugins change.

Key features & smart behavior:

• It works independently of video or audio on individual slides (you can have video with its own sound + background music at the same time, if desired).
• The plugin runs natively on the player, ensuring low resource usage and reliable playback even on long-running schedules.
• You can pause, change, or remove the background music at any time by editing the playlist — changes apply after the next publish.
• If you need to pause the background music for one or more slides, open the slide (s) settings,m open Advanced and check Pause playlist background music for this slide.

This plugin is perfect for retail stores, offices, restaurants, gyms, waiting areas, or any environment where sound helps set the right atmosphere without requiring constant manual intervention.

Available Tracks - There are the files we found in your library that can be used as background music.
Tracks in playlist - These are the files you have added to your background music in the playlist

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.