Re: Embedding .MID audio file as an OBJECT in PowerPoint

From: Steve Rindsberg (abuse_at_localhost.com)
Date: 11/03/04 

Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 16:05:44 EST

> No luck at all... One would have to try all formats to see if this 'legend'
> has any leggs...
> It would be nice if someone who is familiar with the 'posting' on
> http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00155.htm [bottom of page] would shed some
> light on this...

I wrote the FAQ but it's been so long that I no longer remember who posted it or
where (though it was likely here). I've updated to suggest that whatever it may
do with other file formats, it doesn't seem to work with MIDs.

> The sense I get after attempting to get familiar with this is that we are
> 'up the creek without a paddle' and no specific workaround is being proposed
> by any of the active and/or passive 'observers' on this board...

This is a pretty smart bunch. If nobody here knows of a workaround, I'd be
inclined to assume, at least provisionally, that there isn't one.

> The recommendation that is being made to post a vocal voice with MS about
> this may suggest that we are fighting 'city hall', again...

Not at all! MS wants to sell software. To do that, they have to add features
that people want. The MSWish link is one of the ways they use to estimate how
many people want a feature, how much pain it's causing them NOT to have it and (I
assume) whether they're interested enough to pop for a possible upgrade that
includes the feature. In a few years I'll have been bugging them for a decade
about one obscure bug - but it's one that has an easy workaround and it apparently
doesn't annoy anyone but me, so it hasn't gotten fixed. Economics. <g>