Having music play while PPT loops

[Guest]

Hello

I'd like to have a presentation play over-and-over while a single mp3 file plays through to completion as background music. The sound file is about 4 mins 30 secs but one loop through the presentation is only about 40 secs. I'd rather not duplicate the slides 7 times to accommodate the length of the music file. I'm using PowerPoint2003. I've inserted the music file on the 1st slide, as the first of three animated objects. It's starts automatically and plays through multiple slides. I just don't want the music to start at the beginning when the last slide goes back to the first, during "Browsed at kiosk (full screen)" mode

Any suggestions

Thanks...

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

Hello,

PowerPoint does not have a way to specify that an inserted sound should not
restart in a looping presentation. However, a custom soundtrack does not
have the same limitation.

A very cool option in PowerPoint 97 is the Custom Soundtrack add-in. The
PowerPoint Custom Soundtrack Add-in allows you to add
electronically-generated background music to your slide shows. You can
install this add-in from the following folder on the Office 97 compact
disc:

<drive>:\ValuPack\MusicTrk

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PowerPoint might change it's features for controlling the playback of
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PowerPoint's presenter tools (such as Presenter View in PowerPoint 2002 and
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[Guest]

Thanks John. I'll see if I can hunt down a '97 CD and the add-in

Joe G.

 

[Guest]

Is this file included in Office 2000?

 

[Echo S]

Is this file included in Office 2000?

IIRC, the addin would work in PPT 2000 if it had been installed with PPT
97.

 

[Austin Myers]

Joe,

How about a simple work around?

Instead of having PPT play the music, start Windows Media Player, Open your
audio file, and set it to repeat, and then minimize it. Now go ahead and
fire off your presentation.

As the persentation plays "on top" of anything else on the screen you will
not see the media player, nrt does PPT have anything to do with it and it
will go on it's merry way following the steps you established. (The music
file will continue to repeat until you stop it.)

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Hello:

I'd like to have a presentation play over-and-over while a single mp3 file

plays through to completion as background music. The sound file is about 4
mins 30 secs but one loop through the presentation is only about 40 secs.
I'd rather not duplicate the slides 7 times to accommodate the length of the
music file. I'm using PowerPoint2003. I've inserted the music file on the
1st slide, as the first of three animated objects. It's starts automatically
and plays through multiple slides. I just don't want the music to start at
the beginning when the last slide goes back to the first, during "Browsed at
kiosk (full screen)" mode.

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

Hello Wynn,

The add-in and supporting files are only included with PowerPoint 97.
However if you upgrade from PowerPoint 97 to PowerPoint 2000 of 2002 (NOT
2003), you can download a updated version of the add-in that will allow you
to use the feature with the supporting files that are installed with the
original add-in from PowerPoint 97.

If you never had PowerPoint 97 then you will not have the necessary
supporting files to get the add-in to work with PowerPoint 2000 and
PowerPoint 2003.

Here's a KB article that describes how to upgrade from 97 to 2000/2002 and
get the add-in to work with them.

218525 PPT: SNDTRK: "PowerPoint couldn't open the Visual Basic for
Applications project in presentation" Ppmusic.ppa
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=218525

John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

For FAQ's, highlights and top issues, visit the Microsoft PowerPoint
support center at: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=ppt
Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base at:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbhowto

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[Echo S]

Man, I looked for that thing, but I never *did* find it. Suppose that's
because I was looking in Office downloads, not in the KB itself. So, since I
couldn't find the download, I figured I was misremembering.

Thanks for posting this.
Echo