Add Spotify Music to Google Slides? Here's What You Can Do

Google Slides is a presentation program included as part of a free, web-based software office suite offered by Google. The service also includes Google Docs and Google Sheets, a word processor and spreadsheet respectively. Google Slides is available as web application, mobile app for Android, iOS, Windows, BlackBerry, and as a desktop application on Google's ChromeOS.

Google Slides would either be the best thing for making a presentation, or the most boring of the workday. One way to keep all people engaged is to insert audio into Google Slides from a streaming service like Spotify and to play music during a Google Slides presentation. Spotify boasts a library of over 70 million songs, so you'll hardly run out of options.

Unlike Microsoft PowerPoint, however, Google Slides doesn't support for audio files. Fortunately, there are a few things you can do to work around the issue and add some music to make your presentation more alive. Here we'd talk how to add music to Google Slides from Spotify as the background music step by step.

Part 1. How to Add Music on Google Slides from Spotify Online

You can add audio to Google Slides presentation quickly and easily by adding a link of the track you want to hear in the background. However, when playing audio from Spotify, you'll need to start and stop the audio during your presentation. And the computer you use must be connected to the internet.

To add a link from the Spotify program to a Google Slides presentation:

Step 1. Launch Spotify web player in a browser windows and go to the page containing the soundtrack you want to use for copying the link of the soundtrack.

Step 2. Open your presentation in Google Slides and select a slide where you want to insert the soundtrack.

Step 3. Select the slide where the soundtrack will play and add an icon or text on the slide for the link.

Step 4. Click on the Insert button and select the Link option from the drop-down menu.

Step 5. Then go back to Insert and select Shape from the drop-down menu to add a shape.

Step 6. Paste the link to Spotify music track in the Link text box and select Apply.

After inserting Spotify music in Google Slides, you need to test the audio file and make sure it plays. Simply click the Play button of the text or image containing the link. Also, you should note that the audio will stop when changing slides.

Part 2. Best Method to Set Spotify as Google Slides Background Music

Without an internet connection, you cannot successfully stream online track inserted into your Google Slideshows. However, Google Slides only works with audio files stored in your Google Drive account, so you need to upload them beforehand. The supported formats are .mp3 and .wav. To upload Spotify music to Google Drive, you need to change the foramt of Spotify.

The best method is to convert DRM-protected Spotify music to DRM-free audio files and save them to your device with ViWizard Spotify Music Converter. ViWizard Spotify Music Converter is a professional and powerful music converting tool for all Spotify users. Then when Spotify music is converted to a playable format, it's easy to add Spotify music to Google Slides.

Key Features of ViWizard Spotify Music Converter

• Convert DRM-protected Spotify music to DRM-free audio file
• Remove the digital rights protection from Spotify music
• Stream Spotify music at a higher bit rate and sample rate
• Download Spotify music to Google Slides supported formats

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Before you begin, you need to download and install ViWizard Spotify Music Converter to your computer first. Then with the help of ViWizard software, you can save Spotify songs to Google Slides formats like MP3, WAV, FLAC, and more.

Step 1Add tracks, playlists and albums from Spotify to the converter

After launching the converter, the Spotify program will be launched automatically. Then navigate to the playlist you want to convert on Spotify and drag and drop them directly to the main interface of the converter.

Step 2Configure the audio format, bit rate, sample rate and channel

When all music tracks are imported from Spotify to the converter, you can click the menu bar and choose to configure the audio preference like audio format, bit rate, sample rate and more according to your need.

Step 3Download and convert Spotify music to DRM-free soundtrack file

After all is set, just simply click the "Convert" button to download tracks from Spotify and convert them to DRM-free formats. Wait a minute and click the "converted" button to navigate to the folder where you save your converted Spotify music.

Part 3. How to Add Background Music to Google Slides

When all Spotify songs you want have been converted to the format compatible with Google Slides, you need to upload those audio files to your Google Drive. Then follow the below steps to insert audio in Google Slides on your Android phone or iPhone or with a web browser.

Step 1. Open the presentation in Google Slides and select the slide where you want to add the audio.

Step 2. Go to click the Audio button under the Insert tab and select My Drive to choose music tracks.

Step 3. Click on the Select button and then the track will be added to the slide where you want to stream the track.

Step 4. After appearing an icon in the slide, click it to access the playback functions.

Part 4. FAQs about Inserting Music into Google Slides

Q1. Can I add music to Google Slides?

A: Sure, you are able to add music to Google Slides. Although Google Slides doesn't work with audio files, you can try to upload audio files into your Google Drive account and then add audio stored in your Google Drive to Google Slides.

Q2. How to add music to Google Slides from YouTube?

A: If you want to add music to Google Slides from YouTube, you could use the aforementioned method, that is, to copy the link of the track from YouTube.

Q3. Is there a way to add music to Google Slides on Android and iPhone?

A: No, it is impossible to directly insert audio into Google Slides on Android device or iPhone since there is not Insert Audio option. But you could use the Shareable Links option to add music to Google Slides presentation.

Q4. How to add music to Google Slides for the entire presentation?

A: To add audio to Google Slides for the entire presentation, you could toggle on the Stop on Slide Change option when you use the Insert Audio Feature.

Conclusion

That's all. With the aforementioned methods, you can easily use audio for Google Slides. No matter you want to insert audio into your Google Slides on your computer, Android device, or iPhone, you can have a try. But for better playback, you could think about ViWizard Spotify Music Converter. With it, you can use Spotify music with Google Slides without limits.

Adam Gorden is an experienced writer of ViWizard who is obsessed about tech, movie and software.