My music does not play on the web

[Shlomo Bar-Ayao]

I created a Power point presentation for the web with
music imbedded in some of the slides. The music is
supposed to change with certain slides.

When I programmed the slide show I used custom animation
and clicked on the number of slide that I want to music
to play.

What happens when I upload the presentation the slides
change as I want but the music only plays on one slide
and then cuts out until the next slide that music is
program for and then only for one slide again.

What is wrong?

 

[Kathryn Jacobs]

Shlomo,
This is a known limitation on how PowerPoint translates your presentation to
HTML. To get around the problem, you will need to edit the HTML and fix it.
For details on how to do this, see the FAQ page:
Sounds won't play across multiple slides on the web
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00303.htm

(This page will direct you to two sites, mine and Michael's. Read both as
well as the FAQ page.)


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[Guest]

I see that I didn't fully explain the problem. The other
problem is that the music changes at certain slides.

In other words there is one song for the first six slides
and at slide seven the song changes. The at slide 15 it
changes again.

To see the slides you can go to e-tactics.com/Helen.htm

Thanks

 

[Kathryn Jacobs]

Shlomo,
I don't know that anyone has come up with a way to make that work yet. I am
more than willing to be proven wrong, as there are plenty of times I want to
do the same thing. Let me know if you come up with a way to do it!

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[John Langhans [MSFT]]

Hi Schlomo,

With the HTLM output from PowerPoint I don't know of anyway to get the
behavior that you are looking for. In the meantime, have you considered
using Microsoft Producer for PowerPoint 2003 (which can be used with both
PowerPoint 2002 and PowerPoint 2003)? It's end result is also HTML but it
provides more control over the beginning and end of audio playback through
it's timeline interface.

If you (or anyone else reading this message) have suggestions for
improvements to the HTML output from PowerPoint or improvements to
PowerPoint's native (*.ppt) format which might eliminate the reason you
have chosen to use HTML as your output format), don't forget to send your
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http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

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[Steve Rindsberg]

Hm. I was thinking that you'd need a series of framesets, one per music
clip.
That might work, but it'd sure have a steep learning curve. ;-)

But what if you broke your presentation up into several presentations, one
per clip, then export HTML for each.
Then use The Kathy Jacobs method to put a sound into the frameset or outline
frame.

Before exporting, you'd need to create action buttons or some other means of
navigation that'd take you from one exported set of HTML to the next.

Hard to explain, ain't it? If none of that makes sense, yell.

 

[Kathryn Jacobs]

Have to be really careful with this approach, Steve. When you save the
presentations as HTML, they each default to their own directories. That
makes the linking a little tricky (doable, but tricky). I like it as a
work-around though....

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[Steve Rindsberg]

Have to be really careful with this approach, Steve. When you save the
presentations as HTML, they each default to their own directories. That
makes the linking a little tricky (doable, but tricky). I like it as a
work-around though....

Notice that there's nothing up my sleeves or in my post that says anything
about "rose garden" <G>
For just the reason you mention, in fact.

Still.

MyFile.ppt becomes MyFile1, MyFile2 and MyFile3.ppt, let's say.

On export to HTML, you get:

MyFile1.htm
\MyFile1_files (or whatever the support folder's named)
MyFile2.htm
\MyFile2_files
and so on

You know how this will all be laid out in advance, so you could create the
link at the end of MyFile1.ppt to point to MyFile2.HTM
and so on.

I think? (Therefore I Maybe)

 

[Kathryn Jacobs]

Yes, this would work. Problem comes when you try and get PPT to link to an
HTML presentation that isn't there yet. I you do the HTML conversions from
the last presentation to the first one, then the problems aren't as bad.
(HTML the last presentation, create the link to it from the next to the last
one. Create that HTML, etc.)

Also, you need to make sure that the sub-directory structure is exactly the
same on the web server as on the PC. In other words, no spaces in the
directory or file names when you HTML.

(And, yes, I think you already know this. I am being explicit for the sake
of readers who haven't played with it as much as say, you, Michael, myself,
Glen, etc.)

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