Adding Background Music and Sound Effects

Add Background Music and Sound Effects to jazz up your Crowdpurr Experience! Choose from our preset selection of background music tracks to accompany your Trivia Game, Bingo Game, Poll, or Social Wall. The chosen music track will then continuously play on the Projector View and directly on your participant's Mobile Views.

With sound effects, your participants will hear fun audio feedback for various actions during an experience. On Polls and Trivia Games, for example, participants will be notified when a new question begins and when they submit an answer. A different sound effect will play if they answered correctly or incorrectly. Additionally, when different viewer controls are enabled, different sound effects will play.

With Bingo Games, a sound effect will play when participants mark a square on their bingo card or when they earn a BINGO. 

Both the background music and sound effects can be configured to play on the Projector View, Mobile View, or both. Additionally, any changes made to your sound configuration will update the Projector View and Mobile View in real-time!

Can Participants Mute Sounds on the Mobile View?

Yes, your participants can always mute any sound or background music from playing by choosing the Mute Sounds option directly on their Mobile View. For more information, please visit the following section: Muting Sounds on the Mobile View.

Accessing Background Music and Sound Effects

From the Experience Dashboard of any created experience, go the green Settings tab. Under the Sounds section, you'll see both the Background Music and the Sound Effects boxes.

Background Music

Crowdpurr offers a fun selection of background music tracks you can add to constantly stream throughout your experience. By default, the background music setting is disabled for any newly-created experience.

You can browse and choose from the different music tracks available using the dropdown selection. For instance, you can select Happy Jingle for an upbeat atmosphere for your participants. Or, you can choose the Intense Quiz track for a more serious and competitive touch. When enabled on either view, the background music track will continuously play and loop throughout the entire experience.

You can also configure which views should play the background music. You can choose to only play the background music on the Projector View, Mobile View, or both. Alternatively if you prefer not to play any background music at all, simply disable both the Play Background Music On Projector View and Play Background Music on Mobile View settings.

Sound Effects

By default, Sound Effects are also enabled for any newly-created experience. Sound effects add a fun dynamic and enrich experiences. Depending on the experience type, different sound effects will play based on the specific action taken during the experience.

For example, sound effects include:

• Starting a new Active Question
• Participants submitting an incorrect answer
• The Question Timer running out
• Any many more!

Similar to the background music settings, you can also configure which display should play sound effects. You can choose to only play sound effects on the Projector View, Mobile View, or both. However, if you prefer not to play any sound effects at all, simply disable both the Play Sound Effects On Projector View and Play Sound Effects on Mobile View settings.

Muting Sounds on the Projector View

If you need to quickly mute sound from playing on the Projector View, to make an announcement for example, use the Mute Projector View (V) setting available on the Projector View's configuration menu. To open the configuration menu of the Projector View, click the gray Settings button with a gears icon on the bottom right corner of the screen. 

Enable the Mute Projector View (V) setting to immediately mute any sounds from playing. Alternatively, you can press the "V" on your keyboard to quickly toggle this setting on and off.

For more information on the different Crowdpurr keyboard shortcuts available, please visit Crowdpurr Keyboard Shortcuts Reference.

Muting Sounds on the Mobile View

Even if you've enabled the Background Music and Sound Effects settings to play on the Mobile View, your participants can always mute any sound from playing by choosing the Mute Sounds option. Participants can access this setting by tapping on their player name located on the upper-right corner of the Mobile View. Once they've chosen the Mute Sounds option, this will prevent any background music or sound effect from playing on their device.

Mute Sounds option on Mobile View

Unmute Sounds option on Mobile View

Participants can always Unmute Sounds to continue hearing any background music or sound effects by clicking on their player name again and selecting the Unmute Sounds option. This will immediately play any sounds enabled on the Mobile View. This setting does not mute any Question Media such as YouTube videos or Embedded Streams.

Will background music play over Question Media and YouTube videos?

No, whenever a question has a YouTube video or a live stream is embedded, upon clicking the unmute button of the video, the background music will pause. The background music will resume once the YouTube video either ends, is remuted, or the active question is updated.