Continuous Music Play

[Guest]

I have a slide show which I've designed to run on our community closed tv
circuit. The slide show presently consist of about 50 slides running in
continous loop. I would like to add music. I have been successful up to a
point. I wish to have the music continue to run through the last track. At
present, when the slide show completes its first run and begins again, the
music also stops and reverts to beginning. Any help in how to run the
continuous slide show and a continuous (non-disrupted) audio track would be
greatly appeciated.

 

[Guest]

Easy way: repeat the images until the music ends...is that an option?

 

[Guest]

Easy way: repeat the images until the music ends...is that an option?

 

[Guest]

I thought about that. I would probably have to rename the slides each time I
duplicated them. I was really hoping to run without doing this. I thought
by creating a playlist with Microsoft Media I'd be have to have continous
play but that didn't work.

 

[Michael Koerner]

Might want to have a look here

Play sounds across multiple slides (A WAV runs through it)
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00047.htm

 

[Guest]

Michael,

I looked at that link before but it doesn't appear to answer my problem.
Need to allow music to continue running until the end (24 tracks) and to
resume from track 1 once completed. At the same time the slide show will do
continuous loops through 50 slides. Don't know if this possible but hope so.

 

[nate]

Can you have one blank slide at the beginning of the presentation just
to initialize the music and never go back to that slide? On the last
slide (now #51) you would have to have a command that brings the
presentation back to slide 2.

 

[Michael Koerner]

I did just that procedure at a reunion we had this past summer. I combined
all the music as one file. In my case it was 4-5 selections. I used a
freeware piece of software called Audacity by Sound Forge to combine all the
selections.

I then set the transition timings between each image so that the slide show
ended roughly when the music ended, set the sound to play for 999 slides
even though I only had 63. I then set the presentation to loop until someone
presses Esc. It ran for 3 days, none stop

 

[Guest]

Nate,

If having a blank slide at the beginning would help resolve this, I
could do that. Just need to know how to set up the slide/music to run. Any
help here.

Michael,

The slides are only displayed just long enough for someone to read the
information. Most are up no more than 10-15 seconds. So for 40 slides the
show would last about 10 minutes before looping. The audio cut (24 tracks)
is about 72 minutes. So I could duplicate the slides 7-8 times to complete
the end of the audio play. This is what Susan suggested.

 

[Michael Koerner]

I think you mean Sand.. Her suggestion would work. Just
a matter of getting the right timings. Why so many tracks for such a short
presentation?

 

[Guest]

Michael,

Sorry, meant Sandy.

The slide show provides a running of events, meetings, and other items of
interest to our community. We will also have a theater in our community
which hosts numerous shows. We receive short videos of the various acts and
plan to also run it via PP. I just taking over this task and am using a test
show to do the testing. I have already put video into the show so am
comfortable with that. Just this darn continous music thing I'm hoping to
accomplish.

 

[Austin Myers]

Dennis,

How about a different approach? We can split this into two tasks which
makes it a lot simpler. I am going to assume you have either a playlist
(consisting of multiple sound files) or a CD that you want to play during
the show. If you don't, look at the help file for Windows Media Player on
how to build a playlist.

Open up Windows Media Player, select your playlist (or CD). Now in the
tools menu check the "Repeat" option. Start the Media Player and minimize
it to the task bar. Fire off your presentation. Your off to the races!

Because the media player is operating outside of PowerPoint, reaching the
end of the presentation has no effect on the media player, it keeps on
happily playing and repeating the audio you selected until you manually stop
it.


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
www.playsforcertain.com

 

[Guest]

Austin,

Thanks. Sounds like a plan. I work on it over the next few days and
let everyone know who it works out. May have a couple of questions while I
do this so hope you don't mind if I post for your response. Thanks to all.