Music in a slide show

[Matt Schmitt]

I have a slide show, with music accompanying it. When I
run it on the computer i used to create the slide show, it
runs fine. If I email it to someone else to run on their
computer, no music plays. I am assuming that it looks for
the file to play during the slide show, and since that mp3
is not on the other computer, it has nothing to play. How
do I embed the mp3 into the slide show so it plays on any
computer that views it?

 

[Austin Myers]

Matt,

You don't, only wav files can be embedded. You can convert the MP3 to a wav
or you can send the MP3 along with the presentation.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

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Hello Matt,

PowerPoint does not include the ability to embed (not link) multimedia
formats other than *.WAV audio files.

There are a variety of workarounds to make your presentations with linked
content more portable including:

* Saving presentation in MHTML format (single file web page)
* Converting you audio files in to *.WAV files and embedding them (check
the General tab of the Options dialog to adjust linking threshold for sound
files if necessary).

Of course, If you (or anyone else reading this message) feel strongly that
the option to embed other kinds of multimedia, or other ways to send
presentations with supporting files, should be a built-in feature in
PowerPoint, don't forget to send your suggestion (in YOUR OWN WORDS,
please) to Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state
your wish but also WHY it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
suggestions every day and we read each one but, in any given product
development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible.

IMPORTANT: Each submission should be a single suggestion (not a list of
suggestions).

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