Music won't play with starting slide

[Edward]

I have been struggling w/ getting music to play w/ various slides in my
presentation. I've gotten most to run on a "packaged" CD, but the music
linked w/ the first slide still doesn't play. It's on the CD and it plays in
the originating computer. It just won't play on a second computer. The
originating computer is running PP 2007, the second is running PP 2003. For
what it's worth, when I create the "package" I get an error message that the
system won't copy one of the songs it says is linked. I checked each of the
74 slides and it isn't linked but a renamed version is. I renamed it to
shorten the name. (Just FYI, it also has nothing to do w/ the first slide
and never has so I'm assuming it is an entirely unrelated and irrelevant
issue.) Any ideas? Thanks!

 

[Edward]

Thank you for your response. The message says it can't copy, but doesn't say
why. It will, however, copy the renamed file. (Keeping in mind now that
we're talking about two different files.) The file that was copyied as a
replacement works fine. The file that won't play says it is not protected in
"Properties". That one I had renamed as well because I suspected that the
name was too long.

 

[Edward]

Here's the latest wrinkle. I tried another music file and it worked just
fine as the starting music. I put the original file further back in the
presentation and it still didn't work. Based on that it appears that the
problem is, as you suggested, with the file. So I think I'll look for
another file to replace it unless you know of a way to "fix" an MP3 file so
that it will work. BTW I bought all the music files I'm using off the Amazon
web site.

 

[Michael Koerner]

Try putting the music file that does not play in the same folder as the
presentation before you insert it, and see if that does not make a
difference

--
Michael Koerner
MS MVP - PowerPoint


Here's the latest wrinkle. I tried another music file and it worked just
fine as the starting music. I put the original file further back in the
presentation and it still didn't work. Based on that it appears that the
problem is, as you suggested, with the file. So I think I'll look for
another file to replace it unless you know of a way to "fix" an MP3 file so
that it will work. BTW I bought all the music files I'm using off the
Amazon
web site.

 

[Edward]

Actually it's been in that folder right along. Note next response. I
suspect that there are permission problems.

 

[Edward]

I'm tending to agree with you especially now that I'm pretty convinced that
the problem lies w/ the file rather than anything I'm doing. I wrote Amazon
(where I bought it) and got a non-response back - 3 pages on how to do music
downloads. I'm thinking of buying the movie soundtrack and converting the
file to MP3 to see if that works.

 

[Edward]

Temporarily I resolved the issue by buying another version of the song and
using it. I still believe as you and Michael wrote that the problem lies w/
the song file. Not being of the generation that constantly downloads music
files, I am confused, frustrated and irritated that a file I purchased would
have unexpected permission problems. In the end, I made a CD for my friend
and mailed it off. So the next questions are how can I email this file to
him rather having to go through the snail mail thing and can I send him a
file he can work on as well or can I only prepare the presentation on my
machine and mail it off as a finished product which allows no further
modiications? Thanks for your help.