Song won't play

[Steve Coan]

I'm trying to help a friend make a background song play in her PowerPoint
presentation. I have done this before in PowerPoint 2002. She is using
PowerPoint 2000. We can't even insert the song, right-click, and play it in
design mode. We started with an MP3 ripped from CD via RealPlayer. I
thought perhaps PP2000 didn't like MP3's or didn't like RealPlayer being the
handler for MP3's. However, we re-ripped it as a WAV file and it still
doesn't work, although it plays fine in RealPlayer or Windows Media Player.
Here's what's really puzzling: inserting the standard "chimes" or "chord"
windows sounds from the \windows\media folder onto the slide works, so
apparently only some sounds have problems (perhaps they work because they're
smaller? because they don't have spaces in the file names?).

Anyone ever run into this and worked around it?

Thanks,
Steve Coan

 

[Sonia]

Whenever Real Player is installed on a system it is predictable that
PowerPoint will have difficulty playing media files. That is because the
Real Player installer clobbers the system's MCI settings. See section 3 at
http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/PowerPoint/multimedia.htm . Check the
MCI settings lists to those on her system and repair them accordingly. I
would expect that to fix the problem.

 

[Guest]

are u running the show on the same machine...becuase when u insert into powerpoint it is only creating a short cut...unless u embed it.

 

[rosa maria]

-----Original Message-----
I'm trying to help a friend make a background song play in her PowerPoint
presentation. I have done this before in PowerPoint 2002. She is using
PowerPoint 2000. We can't even insert the song, right- click, and play it in
design mode. We started with an MP3 ripped from CD via RealPlayer. I
thought perhaps PP2000 didn't like MP3's or didn't like RealPlayer being the
handler for MP3's. However, we re-ripped it as a WAV file and it still
doesn't work, although it plays fine in RealPlayer or Windows Media Player.
Here's what's really puzzling: inserting the standard "chimes" or "chord"
windows sounds from the \windows\media folder onto the slide works, so
apparently only some sounds have problems (perhaps they work because they're
smaller? because they don't have spaces in the file names?).

Anyone ever run into this and worked around it?

Thanks,
Steve Coan

I really liked to help you if I didn't have a similar

problem.
I can insert the song, I can heard it when I click over in
the presentation, but it only happens in my PC. If I use
another, or if I send it by e-mail, the music don't play.
Had you already an answer for that? Please help if you can.
Rosa Maria

 

[Sonia]

The problem is with having Real Player installed on the system at all! Real
Player's installer hijacks some of the Windows settings that are critical to
PowerPoint. For a full explanation see
http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/PowerPoint/multimedia.htm and read
sections 3 carefully. At the end of that section is an explanation of how to
correct the situation, but you need to start by uninstalling Real Player and
remember never to install it on a system if you are a serious PowerPoint user
who wants to also use audio and video in presentations.
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
(Never test the depth of the water with both feet.)