Re: Help! urgent - bug in PPT - play CD audio during presentation

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From: Sonia (scds_at_nowherebuthere.com)
Date: 11/16/04 

Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:06:52 -0800

When a program does not perform as designed or advertised, it is a bug. Windows
and PowerPoint are not designed to read both sections of a "CD Extra" formatted
disk. The CD Extra format is actually designed to play the audio portion on a
separate CD player in your car, etc., or play the data portion on a computer.
As I told you when you previously asked via email, what you are trying to do
won't work. Windows opens the CD as "data" and hands it off to PowerPoint.
PowerPoint doesn't know that there is an audio track on the disk because the
disk is open in data mode.

Put your CD in your computer's drive and you can either play it as an audio CD
or you can open the data portion. You can't open both sections at the same
time.

If you want to play CD tracks in a presentation that is also playing from a CD,
you'll need to have two CD drives and a second CD that contains the audio
tracks. Otherwise rip the tracks to disk and link to them and include them in
the data track of the CD Extra disk. 

-- 
Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
"Anil Philip" <goodnewsforyou@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:ukGEGZAzEHA.3368@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> problems: (PowerPoint97 with service pack update SR-1, Windows 98)
>
> Unable to get CD audio track to play during Powerpoint presentation.
>
> On slide #1, I tried to have CD audio track #1 play during the slide show:
> 1. Insert | Movies and Sounds | Play CD Audio track
> In the Play Options Menu, I set Start time as (say) Track 1 0:10, End time
> at (say) Track 1 0:30. Click OK, Immediately the times get reset to 0:00.
> The widget with the thumbwheel to set the time does not work either,
> clicking the up arrow does not increase the times.
>
> 2. To get around the above, I changed the Start time as (say) Track 1 0:00,
> End time at (say) Track 2 0:00.
> The CD audio still does not play.
> To test and keep track of what was happening, I added custom animation to
> have the CD icon fly from the right with whoosh sound. It does fly in after
> an unexplained delay of about 10 seconds and play the whoosh sound showing
> the Windows sound is working - however, it still does not play the CD audio
> track.
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated!
> Anil Philip
> Olathe, KS
>
>
>

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