music and slide transition

[grannash]

I have a finished presentation that has one .wav file playing throughout the
presentation. Once it's finished playing it starts over again, and the
playing of the file is not affected whatsoever by the manual advancing of the
slides. This is exactly how I want it.

But then I thought maybe it would be nice to have the slides advance
automatically after a certain amount of time, and I found where I can get it
to do that, but it messes up my music. I've tried various combinations under
Slide Show, Slide Transition, and I either have no music or it restarts with
every advance of the slide.

How can I have the music play until the end and then loop, and still have
the slides automatically advanced, independent of each other?

 

[aneasiertomorrow]

That does sound a bit odd. I would suggest re-inserting the music. Oh, and
make sure you've read this: Play sounds across multiple slides (a WAV runs
through it)
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00047.htm

Lucy
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[grannash]

Thanks, I used that FAQ to initially insert my music and it worked great.
But now when I make the one change of asking for automatic slide advance,
everything goes to pot. I tick "automatically after", specify 10 seconds,
then click "apply to all slides". Then the music restarts after every slide
change. So I tried not clicking "apply to all slides" and that maintained
the music but the auto-advance was then only applied to the first slide.

I no longer have the .wav file on my computer (it is embedded into my PP
presentation). I have it in .cda and used a freebie program to convert it,
but can't seem to find that same program again. I don't really want to pay
for software that I'll likely never use again. Is there a way to use Windows
Media Player to convert .cda to .wav?

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

Save the PowerPoint as a Web page, and the sound file will be extracted.
You can then use that sound file in whatever way you like.
--David

--
David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/

 

[grannash]

Okay, I've saved it as a web page. Where can I find the sound file now that
I've done that? Sorry for what is probably a very basic question.

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

When you save as a Web page, it creates a folder that contains all your
media elements (including pictures and sounds). Open that folder and look
for the WAV file.
--David

--
David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/

 

[grannash]

Hmm, I saved it to my desktop and all that's there is the file, now with a
..mht extension. That was the default when saving - maybe I should have
chosen something else?

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

Try again, but this time save it as a Web page (*.htm), not a single-file
Web page (*.mht). Sorry, I should have been clearer.
--David

--
David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/

 

[grannash]

Okay, that worked.

And now I've been able to fix my original problem! I deleted the old sound,
then set the automatic slide advance, then inserted the sound using the
renamed, extracted file. Now my slides advance automatically and my music
plays thru to the end before looping and isn't affected by changing slides.

Still don't understand why it wasn't working before, but that's computers
for you. ;-)

Thanks to you both.

 

[aneasiertomorrow]

Glad to help
Thanks for stepping in David - it's been sleepy time here in Oz ;-)

Lucy
--
MOS Master Instructor
www.aneasiertomorrow.com.au

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