Playing music in a presentation

[Harish]

Hi,

I am having power point 2003 and what I want is that when I start the
slide show presentation, the music file should be automatically played
throughout the presentation. Is there a way to integrate this mp3 file
into the presentation and make it such a way that it will play when
the presentation has started. 2007 is able to do this but i dont find
such option in 2003.

 

[John Wilson]

Try inserting on slide one > play automatically

Double click the entry in custom animation and select stop playing after ...
999 slides

 

[Harish]

The thing is powerpoint is linking my presentation to the music file
when I insert the clip but it is not attaching the music file to my
presentation. How do I attach the music file to my presentation?

 

[Jean-Pierre Forestier [MVP[]

MP3 won't be embedded.
Try CDEX to convert your MP3 to RIFF-WAVE
Take off the MP3 file from your presentation then insert the Riff-wave
(extension .wav)
It should be embedded.

 

[Harish]

ok i converted my mp3 to .wav and now I have saved the music file in
my jump drive. I have inserted this clip to my presentation, which is
on my desktop. Now when I remove my jumpdrive, the presentation plays
without the music. So i think it is not embedded in it. Any other way
to attach the music file to my presentation?

 

[Michael Koerner]

Depends on the size of you wave file, and what you have set as the max
allowable size for embedding.

--
Michael Koerner
MS MVP - PowerPoint


ok i converted my mp3 to .wav and now I have saved the music file in
my jump drive. I have inserted this clip to my presentation, which is
on my desktop. Now when I remove my jumpdrive, the presentation plays
without the music. So i think it is not embedded in it. Any other way
to attach the music file to my presentation?

 

[Jean-Pierre Forestier [MVP[]

As Michael said
Go to the Tools menu/Options/General Tab.
Change the 100Ko to 50000 to allow PPT to embed sound up to 50 Mo.
Now it should work

 

[Harish]

Thanks a lot Jean. It is working perfectly now. Thanks

 

[Harish]

Why can't powerpoint attach an MP3 file? with a .wav file, the 2
minute music file is 12 MB and the MP3 version is only 2 MB. Totally
my presentation (which was 6 MB) comes to 18 MB with the attached .wav
music file. Is there a way to compress .wav or the presentation itself
to a smaller size below 12 MB?