I applause your brilliant idea - Steve! Here how I made it works; I knew other
people are watching for my experience and they can easily duplicate to solve
their own problem:
1. Audacity is good for audio editing except it cannot handle MIDI file. I still
used it because it is FREE.
2. To use my MIDI sound file I Google searched:
http://www.audconv.com/
3. Convert .mid to .wav and saved it as song2.wav.
4. Using Audacity I open the two songs "song.wav" and "song2.wav" (it open
in 2 separate windows).
5. Click from beginning of "song2.wav" waveform and dragged the whole wave form to make highlighted then Press Ctrl+C to Copy it or
you could drag it.
6. Switch to Song.wav (my original) and click the empty waveform ending and dragged it wider.
7. Press Ctrl+V to Paste it. The added "song2.wav" expanded and the music appears very slow in Playing Speed and the Amplitude is
large. You can adjust
it inside Audacity by highlight the require wave form and choose actions from
the Effect menu. You can also Trim both end to take out much silent moment, also to make the sound file smaller.
8. I chose to save my final song3.wav by Export As Wave options. If it is big
--- you can reduce it with Audio Converter or change back to another sound extension you preferred.
9. With much enthusiasm and endless experiment you could produce your
own Masterpiece.
10. I used my final song3.wav in PPT to make HTML file. It actually contained
3 combined songs with loop action.
Thanks again for your brilliant idea! Cheers!
Rino
BUT try that method of renaming sound file in Microsoft Media Player (MMP)
--- it play like magic!
Some clever programmer worked out that you might try to put the wrong label on the file; apparently
MMP looks at the file contents (takes a little taste before dumping a couple spoonsfull into the
coffecup) <g>
But depending on what you mean by MMP (Windows Media Player or the MCI media player) PPT may not USE
that to play the sound. And in any case, Audacity isn't MMP.
Here's my question; Why Audacity can not play ANY .mid sound files? If it
does then I could convert it into .wav and paste it into my other .wav file or
vice versa. Then I can declare mission accomplished BUT it's still mission
impossible!
As I understand it, .MID files are very different in structure from WAV, MP3 and the other file types
that Audacity *can* open and work with. MIDs are, in effect, a series of descriptions like:
Play a C# on voice #2 for .25 seconds
Pause .25 seconds
Play a D on voice #2 for .25 seconds
and so on.
WAVs are kind of like bitmap imags.
