How To Add Music To Google Slides

We’ll show you several different options

Adding music to a Google Slide Presentation can spice it up and keep your audience engaged.  However, unlikePowerPoint, Google Slides doesn’t directly support audio and music files.

This article will show you several workarounds to effectively add background music to your Google Slide presentations.

Search for a music track you like on online music services such as Grooveshark, Spotify, or Soundcloud. If you don’t have access to one of these services, it’s easy to do.

We will use Spotify. Sign up for a free Spotify account and eitherdownload the apporlisten directly from your browser.

Before making your presentation in front of an audience, be sure to log into the browser version of Spotify. Keep in mind that the audio file will open in a new tab and you will need to click it to start the music. Therefore, you must have access to the computer where the slideshow is playing.

Add a YouTube Video

Google Slides doesn’t support adding audio files to presentations, but it does let you add videos. By adding a YouTube video directly to your presentation, you can use the video player playback options to start the music. The video will continue playing until you move onto the next slide.

If you want to include different background audio (from videos) on more slides, follow the same steps above. Select and copy the video you inserted to use the same one of different slides.

Paste it into each slide where you want the sound to play. As you advance to the next slide, keep in mind that there will be a pause in the music because you must click the play button to start the audio on each slide.

For smoother transitions, change the timings on the video file. Update the start time for the video on each slide under theVideo Playbacksettings. If you don’t, the video will restart each time you move to a slide that includes the video file.

This is not an ideal solution for running music through an entire presentation. However, if you want to use music as an accent on a slide or two, it can work well.

Use Google Drive

You can add a custom audio file to your presentation by first uploading it to Google Drive. Be sure you are using the same Google account.

The other option is to add text to the slide and hyperlink your audio file to it.

Follow the same steps above to add a video file from your Google Drive to your presentation.

Adding music to a Google Slide Presentation isn’t as smooth or straightforward as adding audio to PowerPoint presentations.

However, Google Slides offers many benefits over PowerPoint, such as:

Have you created a presentation using Google Slides? ReadThe Quick Guide To Creating Stunning Google Slidesto learn how.

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