Background audio that plays over multiple menus continously

How do i make a song for example, play in the background of the title menu and continue on even when a button is activated to go to another menu...
More specifically is this possible with a layered menu...

Welcome to the boards
It is not really possible, there will be a break in the music when moving from one menu to another and layered menus will not work for this either as a workaround.
You can try buttons over video, but even then music will not be smooth and you have no real way of "knowing" which point in the music is being jumped from/to.

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