playing ITunes in Powerpoint

[Guest]

How can I play Itunes music in my powerpoint slide show? I've already tried
goldwave, ripping to a cd and copying back to the computer and audiogripper
to do that. None seem to be working. Any ideas?

 

[Sonia]

Can you play other MP3s in PowerPoint? If so, from iTunes you should be able to
burn your M4Pmusic file to a CD and then rip it to your hard drive as an MP3 and
insert it in PowerPoint via Insert > Movies and Sounds > Sound from File.
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Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

Can you play other MP3s in PowerPoint? If so, from iTunes you should
be able to burn your M4Pmusic file to a CD and then rip it to your
hard drive as an MP3 and insert it in PowerPoint via Insert > Movies
and Sounds > Sound from File.

You shouldn't have to burn it to a CD first. On the Mac version of
iTunes,you can select a tune and under the Advanced menu, choose Convert
Selection to MP3. Then you can drag the selection to your hard drive (or
any other disk icon). Then you can Insert > Movies and Sounds > Sound
from File.

--David

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David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

 

[Sonia]

I gave the PC answer, since I assumed that the OP was using PowerPoint on a PC.

The PC version of iTunes does not offer conversion to MP3, though you can
convert to AAC.

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

That's annoying. I hate when the same programs work differently on the
Mac and on Windows. I only have iTunes on my Mac, not my PC. I guess
Apple doesn't want people using iTunes to put music on non-iPod music
players (even though I did that just yesterday on my Mac).
--David

 

[Sonia]

Have you tried running one of your MP3s in PowerPoint 2003 or earlier?

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

Just did it. Insert > Movies and Sounds > Sounds from file. It worked
just fine in PowerPoint 2003. Did you expect me to have trouble?
--David

--
David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

 

[Sonia]

Maybe I should have first asked if this was an M4P tune that you purchased
through the iTunes store. From everything I've seen in other forums, etc., the
MAC's "convert to MP3" doesn't strip the DRM component. I could be wrong
though, since I don't have a MAC to verify it on.

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

Aha. You were expecting me to have problems No, this was ripped from a
commercial CD into iTunes and had no DRM to start with.
--David

 

[Sonia]

Yes, you've already stripped the protection in the ripping process. It's the
iTunes Store embedded DRM that makes it a problem in PowerPoint. Only by
burning to CD, and then ripping the track, can you strip the DRM. Well, it
seems that there is a free software product out there, but apparently Apple is
on to it and has made a change in the latest version of iTunes that makes it
ineffective. For PC users the "round-trip" is the only solution I know of for
all versions of iTunes. Not all that bad because the by-product is a CD to play
in the car, etc. <G>

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

That's annoying. I hate when the same programs work differently on the

Mac and on Windows. I only have iTunes on my Mac, not my PC. I guess
Apple doesn't want people using iTunes to put music on non-iPod music
players (even though I did that just yesterday on my Mac).

Yep. Heh heh ... that's how I got tunes onto an MS-branded MP3 player.
I like the irony in that.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Have you tried running one of your MP3s in PowerPoint 2003 or earlier?

Good question. Just tried it and it seems to work fine, but that was with a
tune imported directly from CD.

Re store boughten sounds, PPT2003 doesn't list m4p as an alternative and when I
set it to ALL FILES, it tells me it can't import that kind of stuff. No
mention of DRM, though I don't imagine that rules DRM out.

 

[Sonia]

Yeh. My iTunes library is 99.9% MP3s from my CDs. I bought a tune last year
just to test this problem. Tunes you buy at the iTunes Store are DRM protected
and will not insert into PowerPoint. You have to go through the drill of
burning and ripping. But you already knew that because it's come up before,
though it was a while ago.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group...up:*PowerPoint*&rnum=8&hl=en#5f59c0d53cbecc08

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Yeh. My iTunes library is 99.9% MP3s from my CDs. I bought a tune last year
just to test this problem. Tunes you buy at the iTunes Store are DRM protected
and will not insert into PowerPoint. You have to go through the drill of
burning and ripping. But you already knew that because it's come up before,
though it was a while ago.

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/microsoft.public.powerpoint/browse_thread/thread/e3c0802d
797ed2b1/5f59c0d53cbecc08?q=iTunes+group:*PowerPoint*&rnum=8&hl=en#5f59c0d53cbecc08

Yup. And by way of verification, iTunes on the Mac does offer a way to convert to MP3 but
when you try to use it on a iTunes-storebought track, it tells you that protected tunes can't
be converted to other formats. And that very definitely nails it down as DRM.