How to add music to your Google Slides presentation

Music is an effective way to brighten up your Google Sheets displays and maintain your viewers engaged. Unlike Microsoft PowerPoint, nevertheless, Google Sheets doesn’t embrace help for audio recordsdata. But with the next workarounds, you may add a soundtrack to any slide. (Updated July 10, 2019, with a brand new workaround by way of YouTube.)

Add a hyperlink to a web-based music file

The simplest way to add music to your Google Slides presentation is to hyperlink to a monitor from a web-based music service like Spotify, Soundcloud, or Grooveshark.

1. Open a Google Slides presentation in your net browser and go the slide to which you need to add music.

2. Select Insert Text field from the menu, or click on the textual content field button within the toolbar. Click anyplace on the slide to routinely create a textual content field.

3. Go to your favourite on-line music service, discover the monitor you need to use in your presentation, and observe the service’s directions to copy the hyperlink.

4. Return to your slide and paste the monitor hyperlink into the textual content field you simply created.

5. Click the arrow device and resize the textual content field and transfer it to wherever you need it on the slide.

6. To play your presentation, choose View Present from the menu. With the presentation in view, click on the hyperlink to set off the music. The file will open in separate browser tab and play till you shut it.

If you’re feeling the uncooked textual content hyperlink is an eyesore on your in any other case stunning slide deck, you may cowl it with a picture to higher combine it with your design.

1. From the menu, choose Insert Image. Search for {a photograph} or clip artwork. Click on the picture you need and hit Select to add it to your slide.

2. Select the arrow device. Resize the picture and transfer it the place you need it on the slide.

3. With the picture chosen, click on the “insert link” icon from the toolbar. Paste the monitor hyperlink within the field that seems, and click on Apply.

Now if you play your presentation, set off the music by clicking this picture.

Add music from a YouTube video

The different approach to add music to your presentation is with a YouTube video. There are two methods to do that. The first is to observe the steps above and simply copy the video hyperlink and paste it in a textual content field. The second approach is to insert the precise video on your slide. This methodology is greatest if you need to use a shorter music clip to introduce an concept or underscore some extent, as a result of the video will cease enjoying if you advance the slide.

1. From the slide on which you need to add music, choose Insert Video from the menu.

2. Type your question within the YouTube search discipline that pops up.

3. Click the video with the music you need, and hit Select to place it on the slide.

4. With the video nonetheless chosen, click on Format choices on the toolbar.

5. Click the arrow subsequent to Video playback and examine the field…