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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / February 2007How do I get two wav files to play sound at the same time?
I have inserted various music files to play as a background to my slides and converted them so that they are playing correctly and are not too big. I then want to have animations with sounds playing concurrently, but the music stops as soon as the new sound starts. Any assistance please? PPT can't play two sound files at the same time. To do what you want to do you would need a sound editing program that can handle two tracks of audio. Put in one track and then lay the other audio file in the other track. Save the new "double" track audio file and insert that into PPT file. >I have inserted various music files to play as a background to my slides >and > converted them so that they are playing correctly and are not too big. I > then want to have animations with sounds playing concurrently, but the > music > stops as soon as the new sound starts. Any assistance please? PPT can play animation sounds along with background sounds. It may be that your sound card can't play two WAV files simultaneously, though. Is your background music MP3s or WAVs?  SignatureEcho [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/ >I have inserted various music files to play as a background to my slides >and > converted them so that they are playing correctly and are not too big. I > then want to have animations with sounds playing concurrently, but the > music > stops as soon as the new sound starts. Any assistance please? Because of the size of the completed presentation I had to find a way to install MP3 music files on - I used Cdex to do this. So ... the music are converted MP3 files and the animations (sound of sweeping, sound of a truck back-firing) are wav files > PPT can play animation sounds along with background sounds. It may be that > your sound card can't play two WAV files simultaneously, though. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > music > > stops as soon as the new sound starts. Any assistance please? You may find that you'll be able to play concurrent linked mp3 files. You'll have to package the mp3 with the presentation though in one folder Signatureemail john AT technologytrish.co.uk "Glass" action buttons - http://www.technologytrish.co.uk/pptbuttons.html Personalised calendars - http://technologytrish.co.uk/calendars > Because of the size of the completed presentation I had to find a way to > install MP3 music files on - I used Cdex to do this. So ... the music are [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > > music > > > stops as soon as the new sound starts. Any assistance please? So the MP3s have been converted to RIFF WAVs using Cdex so they could be embedded, is that what you're saying? If so, you want to try inserting the regular MP3s instead. http://www.echosvoice.com/gotchas.htm#SoundAdvice will help you keep the MP3 links working. SignatureEcho [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/ > Because of the size of the completed presentation I had to find a way to > install MP3 music files on - I used Cdex to do this. So ... the music are [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >> > music >> > stops as soon as the new sound starts. Any assistance please? Melody, If your hardware is set up for it there is no reason you can not play multiple sound files at the same time. Look to see who made your sound card and check their web site for a "WDM" driver for the sound system. Second, make certain you have the latest version of DirectX installed on your PC. Austin Myers MS PowerPoint MVP Team Provider of PFCMedia, PFCPro, PFCExpress http://www.pfcmedia.com >I have inserted various music files to play as a background to my slides >and > converted them so that they are playing correctly and are not too big. I > then want to have animations with sounds playing concurrently, but the > music > stops as soon as the new sound starts. Any assistance please? > I have inserted various music files to play as a background to my slides and > converted them so that they are playing correctly and are not too big. I > then want to have animations with sounds playing concurrently, but the music > stops as soon as the new sound starts. Any assistance please? Not sure if this is your problem, but I have found that I can get multiple sounds to play concurrently only when they are not embedded in the presentation. E.g., if one sound is embedded and the other is in an external file, both sounds play. If I embed them both, only one plays. I am going to try to use another program to mix both audio files into one wav file. |
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