Turn off music while playing movie

[Guest]

Music will play in our store all day through music player software -- player
not yet chosen. Powerpoint presentation will run continuously all day on
large screen, looping through approximately 20 presentations all linked
together. Every once in a while, a movie will play. When that happens I want
to stop the music, watch the movie and resume the music when the movie is
finished.

Any ideas?

 

[Guest]

If I understand your question correctly, the music is playing independently
of the slideshow. The only way you're going to be able to do this is by
incorporating the music in the slideshow and using PowerPoint's feature to
stop the music when the video is playing and restart when finished.

 

[Guest]

If I use the music feature within PowerPoint, I can only select one CD, and
since I want it to loop for eight hours, I want the flexibility of the 2500
MP3's that I have on the hard drive. Perhaps a Windows Macro????

Ellen

 

[Guest]

I think I have a fair work-around for you.

First, create a WMP playlist of all your MP3 files. See this link for how:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/windowsmediaplayer/getstarted/makeplaylist.mspx

Second, click on Insert, Movie from File, and find and select the playlist
(wpl file) and choose play automatically when prompted. This will insert a
small version of the WMP with visualizations because it thinks it's playing a
movie. Drag it off the slide to the side so it won't show when the
presentation is playing. Go to Custom Animations and (since this is
background music) lower the volume of the "movie".

Third, go to the slide with your movie and using Custom Animation, change
the volume of the movie to all the way up.

Fourth, see this link for how to keep the music from starting over in a
looping presentation:
http://www.indezine.com/notes/2004/08/how-do-i-loop-soundmusic-for-looped.html

The end result should be all your songs on a continuous loop at a low volume
and your movie at a volume sufficient to be heard over the music. I don't
know it'll last for 8 hours, but it'll last through 999 slides (PPT limit).

Hope it helps.

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Thanks,
Glenna Shaw
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
http://www.pptmagic.com