MCI device error with WMA audio file

[Randy Lee]

I am an educator who is trying to create powerpoint
presentatins from time to time that have audio inserted
into the slides. I am using MS 2000 Powerpoint and run
Windows XP Pro. When I place a cd that I purchased with
music on it that I want to transfer to my powerpoint
presentation here is what I do.

I place the CD in the D tray and media player appears. I
click on the copy music option and select the song I want
to copy to MY MUSIC.

I then use Roxio EasyCD Creator to copy this song onto a
CD.

Once this is done, I then go and create my presentation
and when I want to insert the music into a slide, I
do "Insert" Sound then tell the program the song in on
the disk in D (linking it). Then after the presentation
is done, I burn that to the CD as well using CD creator.

Now I have a CD with both the presentation and the audio
on it, forgoing the Pack and Go option.

This works fine as long as the song is in either a WAV.
format or MP3 format, but the Media Player Copy option
seems to default the copied song in the format of Windows
Media Audio...which is where the problem comes in.

I can take the CDs I've created to my computer at school
and as long as they are MP3 or WAV they play fine in the
presentation, but if I have the song in a WMA format I
get this message,

"The specified file can not be played on the specified
MCI device. The file may be corrupt, not in correct
format or no fil".

I have the exact same Audio Codecs on my home system
(creation site) as my system at school (presentation
site).

Any solutions other than keep doing this in either MP3
format or WAV format?

 

[Echo S]

"The specified file can not be played on the specified
MCI device. The file may be corrupt, not in correct
format or no fil".

That part is the key, Randy. The MCI settings on the other computer are
messed up. See
http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/PowerPoint/multimedia.htm for info
on how to fix those.