How To Add Background Music To A Google Slideshow

Music is a neat fashion to liven up your Google Sheets presentations and proceed your audience engaged. Unlike Microsoft PowerPoint, however, Google Sheets doesn't include back up for audio files. But with the following workarounds, you tin can add a soundtrack to any slide. (Updated July x, 2019, with a new workaround via YouTube.)

Add together a link to an online music file

The easiest way to add music to your Google Slides presentation is to link to a rails from an online music service like Spotify, Soundcloud, or Grooveshark.

1. Open a Google Slides presentation in your web browser and go the slide to which y'all want to add together music.

2. Select Insert > Text box from the menu, or click the text box button in the toolbar. Click anywhere on the slide to automatically create a text box.

3. Go to your favorite online music service, find the track you want to use in your presentation, and follow the service's instructions to re-create the link.

four. Return to your slide and paste the track link into the text box you just created.

v. Click the arrow tool and resize the text box and move it to wherever you lot desire it on the slide.

half-dozen. To play your presentation, select View > Present from the card. With the presentation in view, click the link to trigger the music. The file volition open in split up browser tab and play until you close it.

google slides music image — Integrate a music link into your slide design with a photo or some clip art.

If you feel the raw text link is an eyesore on your otherwise beautiful slide deck, you can cover it with an paradigm to better integrate it with your design.

one. From the bill of fare, select Insert > Paradigm. Search for a photograph or clip art. Click on the paradigm you lot desire and hit Select to add it to your slide.

2. Select the arrow tool. Resize the epitome and move it where you want it on the slide.

3. With the prototype selected, click the "insert link" icon from the toolbar. Paste the rail link in the box that appears, and click Utilise.

At present when you lot play your presentation, trigger the music by clicking this epitome.

Add music from a YouTube video

The other manner to add music to your presentation is with a YouTube video. There are two ways to do this. The first is to follow the steps above and simply re-create the video link and paste it in a text box. The second way is to insert the actual video on your slide. This method is all-time when y'all want to use a shorter music clip to introduce an idea or underscore a point, because the video will stop playing when yous advance the slide.

google slides youtube search — You can search YouTube from within Google Slides past using the "insert video" control.

ane. From the slide on which you want to add music, select Insert > Video from the card.

2. Type your query in the YouTube search field that pops upwards.

3. Click the video with the music y'all desire, and striking Select to identify information technology on the slide.

google slides youtube video — When you use a YouTube video for your music track, resize information technology to make information technology unobtrusive.

4. With the video still selected, click Format options on the toolbar.

five. Click the pointer next to Video playback and check the box adjacent to Autoplay when presenting. This volition save you the trouble of stopping your presentation to click the video's play push button.

vi. Click the X to close the formatting options sidebar.

vii. Click the arrow tool, resize the video to its smallest size, and position it where you want information technology on the slide. (You tin besides resize by inputting specific dimensions in the Format options sidebar, but I observe the manual method faster and more intuitive).

When you lot show this slide during your presentation, click the miniaturized video to play the music.