Adding music to a presentation

[Guest]

I am trying to add music to a presentation. I have PowerPoint 2003. I
already had an mp3 song on the presentation and it worked fine. Somewhere
along the line it was deleted and I cannot put it back on to the
presentation. I'm not sure what I did differently. The sound icon shows up
on the first slide, but does not play at all. I have check for it to play
through 999 slides and to loop through the presentation. When I am in Custom
Animation, I check "Other Sound", but it's requiring a WAV. I know PPT 2003
accepts mp3--i already had it working. Does anyone have any clues?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I am trying to add music to a presentation. I have PowerPoint 2003. I
already had an mp3 song on the presentation and it worked fine. Somewhere
along the line it was deleted and I cannot put it back on to the
presentation. I'm not sure what I did differently. The sound icon shows up
on the first slide, but does not play at all. I have check for it to play
through 999 slides and to loop through the presentation. When I am in Custom
Animation, I check "Other Sound", but it's requiring a WAV. I know PPT 2003
accepts mp3--i already had it working. Does anyone have any clues?

Powerpoint accepts mp3 but only *links* to it. The sound doesn't become part of
the presentation; there's just a bit of data saying "When it comes time to play
me, go get this sound file and fire it up" and the path to the sound file.

If the sound file isn't there ... well ... it's not, and PPT can't get it. No
sound.

This explains it in more detail and has some troubleshooting suggestions:

Sounds/Movies don't play, images disappear or links break when I move or email a
presentation
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00155.htm

 

[Guest]

Thanks! I understand better now.
--
Ronnie

Powerpoint accepts mp3 but only *links* to it. The sound doesn't become part of
the presentation; there's just a bit of data saying "When it comes time to play
me, go get this sound file and fire it up" and the path to the sound file.

If the sound file isn't there ... well ... it's not, and PPT can't get it. No
sound.

This explains it in more detail and has some troubleshooting suggestions:

Sounds/Movies don't play, images disappear or links break when I move or email a
presentation
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00155.htm

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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