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Why won't my sound file play, but a track from a CD will?

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Steph VG - 07 Mar 2008 01:28 GMT
On my laptop running WinXP, I ripped a song from a CD in WMP 10 (WMA Lossless
format), and then inserted it into a PP 2002 presentation.  Fine, no problem.
Could even advance slides and keep the music going.

Transferred the presentation to a desktop running WinXP, ripped the song
from the CD again in WMP 10 (same audio format), and inserted it again.  No
sound.  Tried ripping it in MP3 format, inserted the new file.  Still no
sound.

Set it up to play that track from the CD, and it works fine.  Any hints on
why the CD would work, but the file wouldn't?  We'll need to do this fairly
regularly, often using songs from different CDs in the same presentation, so
I need to figure out how to get the FILES to play, not the track directly
from the CD.

Thanks for any help you can give me,
Steph VG
Austin Myers - 07 Mar 2008 16:46 GMT
Steph,

When you "rip" an audio track with Media Player it places DRM (Digital
Rights Management) into the file.  You can use it on the machine that you
ripped it on, but not another PC.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
www.playsforcertain.com

> On my laptop running WinXP, I ripped a song from a CD in WMP 10 (WMA
> Lossless
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> Thanks for any help you can give me,
> Steph VG
Steph VG - 07 Mar 2008 20:21 GMT
True, but I re-ripped it on the second machine, so DRM shouldn't be an issue
there.

> Steph,
>
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> Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
> www.playsforcertain.com
Austin Myers - 07 Mar 2008 20:42 GMT
On the second machine, do you have other media software that may have
changed system settings or codecs?  If so, I'd suggest downloading Windows
Media Player and re-install it to reset everything.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
www.playsforcertain.com

> True, but I re-ripped it on the second machine, so DRM shouldn't be an
> issue
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>> Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
>> www.playsforcertain.com
Steph VG - 07 Mar 2008 20:55 GMT
I don't know for sure - it's our church's machine.  I'll try re-installing
WMP and let you know.  Thanks so much!

> On the second machine, do you have other media software that may have
> changed system settings or codecs?  If so, I'd suggest downloading Windows
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> >> Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
> >> www.playsforcertain.com 

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