Music Files

[kanani]

Hello,

I am a complete rookie when it comes to Powerpoint. I am doing a slide
show with music in the background. I have been able to import the
pictures and have import the music files as well. However, in my
attempt to burn a cd and use this cd on another pc to show...pictures
show up but now sound...I have research this and found out I have to
embedded the music files...Now I am at a complete lost. Please help.

Kanani

I am running Powerpoint 2002 and have downloaded powerpoint viewer too.

 

[Luc]

Kanani,
You are right only wav files can be embedded, up to 50Mb. You can set the
value in Tools - Options - General tab - Link sounds with file size greater
than". For some help on this go to:
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00155.htm
And while you are there also read:
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00047.htm

 

[Guest]

Are your music files in mp3 format?

If so, download Cdex (see below) and in the convert menu use "add a riff wav
header to ... " to change them to an embeddable format. There will be no
size increase.

Then in tools>options>general change the figure in "link sounds with file
size greater than" to 50000. Insert the sounds and all should be well.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdexos

 

[lurdes.abreu]

Hello,

I am a complete rookie when it comes to Powerpoint. I am doing a slide
show with music in the background. I have been able to import the
pictures and have import the music files as well. However, in my
attempt to burn a cd and use this cd on another pc to show...pictures
show up but now sound...I have research this and found out I have to
embedded the music files...Now I am at a complete lost. Please help.

Kanani

I am running Powerpoint 2002 and have downloaded powerpoint viewer too.

 

[lurdes.abreu]

Movies are always linked in PowerPoint. So are all sounds but WAVs.
WAV sounds are linked if they're above the maximum embedding size you
specify in Tools, Options. But not always. See below.
To avoid linking problems:
· Pick (or create) the folder you want to store your presentation and
movies/sounds in. Save your presentation to that folder.
· Copy sound and movie files to the same folder.
· Insert the sounds and movies into your presentation from that
folder.
· When you move the PPT file to another computer, be sure to move all
the movie and sound files too. As long as you put them in the same
folder as the PPT file, the links will usually not break.
By following these steps, you force PowerPoint to create "pathless
links" -- links that point to just the linked file name, not the path.
When PPT sees these, it looks for the linked file in the current
folder, which is almost always the one where the PPT file itself lives.
Result: the links don't break.
It won't work to copy the sounds/movies to the folder with the PPT file
after you've inserted them.
If you've already added sounds and movies, either delete them then
reinsert them from the folder where the PPT file lives or (if you use a
PC) check out PPTools FixLinks Pro, which will de-path the links in
your presentation automatically.
FixLinks Pro converts your links from fully pathed ones (for example
links that point to C:\My Documents\Images\MyPhoto.JPG ) to
pathless/relative links ( MyPhoto.JPG only, no path or drive).
When PowerPoint runs into one of these pathless links, it looks for the
linked file in the current operating system path, just as it does with
links to files you've inserted following the instructions above.
Note: this is NOT necessarily the same as the location of the current
PowerPoint file, though it often is. In order for your links to work,
you need to understand where PowerPoint will look for them, even if
you've ensured that they're relative. Here's what we've learned about
it:

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks for that. But ... It's customary to give credit to the author when
quoting at length from someone else's work.