no playback after adding music from a CD onto a powerpoint slide

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jmk - 29 May 2007 06:27 GMT

After following all instructions there is no sound eminating from
presentation even though it seems the CD drive is being accessed. No problem
playing CD through media player. Is there additional software required to
play through ppt.
(At this stage I am still developing presentation)

Once this is resolved,and presentation has been developed, is it a matter of
copying .ppt and music tracks to CD, will the mucis play or not.

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kraves - 29 May 2007 08:52 GMT

My suggestion would be to extract the CD (convert uswing MediaPlayer if you
like) to something like wav or wma. Keep this music file in the same
directory as the powerpoint file then never have to worry about the cd again.

Kyle.

> After following all instructions there is no sound eminating from
> presentation even though it seems the CD drive is being accessed. No problem
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> Once this is resolved,and presentation has been developed, is it a matter of
> copying .ppt and music tracks to CD, will the mucis play or not.

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jmk - 30 May 2007 06:34 GMT

I took your advice and copied the track using Windowa Media Player. It has a
.wma extension, but this isn't recognised in ppt when I try to insert sound
from a file. What next? How do I extract the file as a .wav?

> My suggestion would be to extract the CD (convert uswing MediaPlayer if you
> like) to something like wav or wma. Keep this music file in the same
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> > Once this is resolved,and presentation has been developed, is it a matter of
> > copying .ppt and music tracks to CD, will the mucis play or not.

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jmk - 30 May 2007 08:48 GMT

Disregard previous reply, further attempts have gotten the music to
play.....thankyou for your help

> I took your advice and copied the track using Windowa Media Player. It has a
> .wma extension, but this isn't recognised in ppt when I try to insert sound
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> > > Once this is resolved,and presentation has been developed, is it a matter of
> > > copying .ppt and music tracks to CD, will the mucis play or not.

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kraves - 31 May 2007 11:03 GMT

Glad to help. (From memory WMplayer only does wma anyway)

> Disregard previous reply, further attempts have gotten the music to
> play.....thankyou for your help
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> > > > Once this is resolved,and presentation has been developed, is it a matter of
> > > > copying .ppt and music tracks to CD, will the mucis play or not.

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grannash - 30 May 2007 17:43 GMT

How exactly does one go about 'extracting' using Media Player, in order to
get a .wav file? I have MP 9 and I used "copy from CD" and it didn't give me
a chance to say what file type I wanted, just gave me .wma, which I didn't
want.

> My suggestion would be to extract the CD (convert uswing MediaPlayer if you
> like) to something like wav or wma. Keep this music file in the same
> directory as the powerpoint file then never have to worry about the cd again.
>
> Kyle.

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jmk - 01 Jun 2007 01:56 GMT

I don't know - I got a .wma file, no option to select a file type.

sorry can't help you

> How exactly does one go about 'extracting' using Media Player, in order to
> get a .wav file? I have MP 9 and I used "copy from CD" and it didn't give me
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> >
> > Kyle.

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Michael Koerner - 01 Jun 2007 12:35 GMT

Upgrade to WMP 10, it allows ripping to MP3. Which version of PowerPoint are
you using.

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> How exactly does one go about 'extracting' using Media Player, in order to
> get a .wav file? I have MP 9 and I used "copy from CD" and it didn't give
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>> Kyle.

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