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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / March 2005Why does the music play sometimes in a presentation?
I made a presentation slide show and added music from WMP and all was well. I made a bigger presentation based on my success and tried to use the same music but it would not play even though I used the same method and all looked well throughout the operation. The slide show played but to no music even though the speaker icon was visible. In desparation I tried to load an MP3 file that I had on my desk top and it worked fine but this was the wrong music, why is this? Did you move or rename any of the files after you inserted them? If so you broke the "links". See: Sounds/Movies don't play, images disappear or links break when I move or email a presentation http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00155.htm  SignatureSonia Coleman Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials http://www.soniacoleman.com >I made a presentation slide show and added music from WMP and all was well. I > made a bigger presentation based on my success and tried to use the same [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > file that I had on my desk top and it worked fine but this was the wrong > music, why is this? Yes I moved the slides around in the slide sorter but isn't that what it is there for if not then why is it called slide sorter view. I did not try to add the music until I had sorted the slides and was happy with the show then i tried to add the music. Have I got something wrong? >-----Original Message----- >Did you move or rename any of the files after you inserted them? If so you [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > >. You can certainly move slides around. I was really asking about the music files and whether you had moved them. Media files are linked, not embedded, so PowerPoint looks for them in the same location they were in when you inserted them. See: Sounds/Movies don't play, images disappear or links break when I move or email a presentation http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00155.htm You also need to make Custom Animation settings to control when and how the music plays. See: Play sounds across multiple slides (A WAV runs through it) http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00047.htm > Yes I moved the slides around in the slide sorter but > isn't that what it is there for if not then why is it [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] >> >>. Thanks Sonia but no I haven't moved the music as I hadn't included it at that point. My sequence of events is to make the slide show to my satisfaction then count the slides and select the music to suit. I would have played the slide show without music to make sure all is to my satisfaction then I would add the music but on playing the slide show no sound even though all looks OK. This trying to use WMA files from My Music and the WMP but the same tune in MP3 dragged onto the desk top for ease of location from iTunes will play? I would rather use the WMP file stright from My Music as this would give a bigger selection and easier process. Ideas? > You can certainly move slides around. I was really asking about the music files > and whether you had moved them. Media files are linked, not embedded, so [quoted text clipped - 44 lines] > >> > >>. Try copying your music files and put them in a new folder called C:\Test. Then delete and re-insert them. Do they play that way? I'm thinking that the length of the path to your files may be too long. There is a limit of about 128 characters and anything in My Music starts with C:\Documents and Settings\Charlie\My Documents\My Music which is about 55 characters. > Thanks Sonia but no I haven't moved the music as I hadn't included it at that > point. My sequence of events is to make the slide show to my satisfaction [quoted text clipped - 57 lines] >> >> >> >>. Thanks Sonia I knew you would sort it for me. That is the problem. My file location is enormous. Having moved them into C:\test they worked well. That will explain why the MP3 files dropped onto the desk top worked. Brillaint. Thanks again Charlie >-----Original Message----- >Try copying your music files and put them in a new folder called C:\Test. Then [quoted text clipped - 66 lines] > >. You might want to also change the MP3 names to one word names. I had an intermittent problem with sound files when there were spaces in the name. Sometimes they worked, sometimes not. Always in the same folder as the presentation though. Once the names were changed, the problem was solved. >Thanks Sonia >I knew you would sort it for me. That is the problem. My [quoted text clipped - 109 lines] >> >>. And that inconsistency could also be the path length limitation. Making the file name shorter will shorten the path. > You might want to also change the MP3 names to one word names. I had an > intermittent problem with sound files when there were spaces in the name. [quoted text clipped - 114 lines] >>> >>>. |
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