I'd like to embed wav files into a pptx

[Charles Stricklin]

My church uses PowerPoint 2007 to play songs for kid's worship, and people
are always renaming the audio files or worse, deleting them, making the
presentations fail. I'd like to embed the songs into the PowerPoint file
itself, so I've converted them to .wav files and changed the setting under
Options > Advanced to say "Link sounds with file size greater than 50000
KB".

I have linked a 49.5 MB .wav file to a presentation, but even when I save it
using a new filename, the file size remains low, so I'm sure the song is not
being embedded into the file. Sure enough, I rename the .wav file and it
breaks.

Am I doing something wrong?

- Charles Stricklin

 

[David Marcovitz]

I could be wrong, but I believe that a 49.5 MB file is greater than
50,000KB because you have to multiply 49.5 by 1024, not 1000. That would
explain the problem, but I'm not sure if I'm right.
--David

 

[Austin Myers]

Close enough David.



Austin Myers
AT&W Technologies

Creators of PowerPoint add-ins

 

[Jean-Pierre Forestier [MVP[]

Try to convert your 49.5Mo file to Riff-wave file (using CDEX (free)). Y'll
get about 5Mo file

 

[Peter]

Hi Charles

What Jean-Pierre says.

In essence, you can keep the songs in MP3 format which gives
considerably smaller file sizes, but change the file headers so that
Windows thinks they're WAV files. That way they'll be embedded into
your PPT presentation.

More information can be found at http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00155.htm

HTH

Peter

 

[Charles Stricklin]

That worked great! Thanks, guys.

Hi Charles

What Jean-Pierre says.

In essence, you can keep the songs in MP3 format which gives
considerably smaller file sizes, but change the file headers so that
Windows thinks they're WAV files. That way they'll be embedded into
your PPT presentation.

More information can be found at http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00155.htm

HTH

Peter