Re: Music stops playing in PowerPoint 2003 slideshow

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The playlist text file has the name of the PP show: AlecNew.pps

I have not activated the autorun on anything but Media Player. When the
popup comes up, I ignore it and open a file where ever I choose. Maybe that
is the problem on my computer. I have been blaming VISTA, which is easy to
do. <smile> I will test it and let you know what happens.

One of my son-in-laws is a computer specialist and he told me he NEVER lets
any program open automatically so that would be the solution for why it does
not open automatically on his computer. I am the one who questioned it, but I
have. I would almost bet my other son-in-law feels the same way and has the
autorun turned off.

"Echo S" wrote:

I think that should work. Maybe Michael will spot something, though -- he's
better with the autorun thing than I am!

What's in your playlist.txt file?

I'm wondering if it's just that autorun has been turned off on the computer
in question.

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"Deloresw" <Deloresw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The autorun.ini says open=pptview.exe /L "playlist.txt"
The options for package the CD are:
Include these files
PP Viewer
Play all presentations automatically in the specified order
Linked files has check mark

"Echo S" wrote:

What Michael asked -- what does the autorun.ini say? (You can open it in
Notepad or Wordpad.)

Or, when you go to File | Package for CD and choose Options, which option
are you choosing for "select how presentations will play in the viewer"?

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"Deloresw" <Deloresw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm back!! I really appreciate all of the time you spent helping me,
but
when
I changed the effect options to "Stop playing after 999 slides," the
songs
only played one time each. I changed the timing to repeat until end of
slide,
but this caused the songs to overlap. I then changed the timing to
first
song, (none) and second song to play 3 times, etc. The songs still
would
only
play one time each.

I reverted back to my original settings for the effect options, e.g.,
first
song, stop after 23 slides, timing; play to end of slide; second song,
stop
after 39 slides, etc. Now, I am back in business except for the same
problem
of autorun not working properly on my computer. The autorun and PP
viewer,
as
always, are listed on the CD, but I still have to click on the PP file
and
select from the dropdown menu for Microsoft PowerPoint to run the
slideshow.
I can live with this as long as everything else works on the XP
computers,
but if you have anymore suggestions for me to try I would more than
welcome
them.

Again, I thank all of you for your time and help! I hope my experience
helps
someone else.

Deloresw



"Deloresw" wrote:

Thank you so much for your help! I will try not to cry too much if
something
does not work! I have had fun making the slideshows, but the small
glitches
were about to get me down.

Deloresw

"Echo S" wrote:

Well, I'm glad I could make you laugh, anyway!

But now I might make you cry. :-(

Using the "stop playing after 999 slides" won't keep you from having
to
make
timing adjustments to the slide transitions. But it should ensure
that
the
songs play all the way through and not stop unexpectedly partway
through the
song. I would not try to use a "stop after XX slides" and put the
real
number of slides in there. It just doesn't seem to work right for
some
strange reason.

However, you should be aware that timing is not PowerPoint's strong
suit.
You're not going to get extremely accurate timing with PPT. My
favorite
way
to explain it is, if you're playing the Star Spangled Banner and you
want
the fireworks animation to happen when the song says "and the
rockets'
red
glare," well, it ain't gonna happen. PPT just isn't going to be that
precise.

So, you will probably be better off just putting 3-, 4-, and
5-second
automatic transitions on each slide and trying to get within a few
seconds
of the total sound length.

Or, what I might do is use a sound editor and combine all the MP3s
into
one
sound file, insert that on the first slide and set it to stop
playing
after
999 slides, and then just set the transition times (3, 4, 5 seconds
or
so)
for all the slides.

Audacity is a good free sound editor.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
You
must download and install the LAME MP3 encoder as well, but there
are
links
to it on that site. Just click "Download Audacity 1.2.6" to get to
it.

As for putting the MP3 into the folder with the presentation before
inserting it, yes, it's a good habit to get into. But it's not
really
necessary since you're using Package for CD. The PfCD process
actually
creates a new folder and puts the presentation and the MP3s in the
same
folder -- and it fixes up all the links. So you don't have to worry
so
much
about starting with the MP3 in the same folder as the presentation.
It
may
make your life easier, though, and, as I mentioned, it really is a
good
habit to get into.

Go here http://www.echosvoice.com/autoruncd2.htm and scroll down a
little
way, and you can see a screeenshot of the files inside a package for
CD
folder. You'll have autorun.INF, gdiplus.dll, pptview.exe and a
bunch
of
other files. You'll also see your presentation file and your MP3s.
(The
linked audio in the screenshot is a WMA file, Beethoven's
Symphony....)
Burn
all those files to the CD. Don't burn the *folder.* Windows looks
for
the
autorun.INF file, or sometimes the play.BAT file, to start the CD
automatically. If that file is inside a folder, Windows can't see it
on
the
CD. And those INF/BAT files look for the pptview.exe file on the CD
directly. If it's in a folder, they can't find it. And thye
pptview.exe
file
looks for your presentation (PPT or PPS) file on the CD. If it's in
a
folder, the Viewer won't be able to find it. And so on. You get the
idea.

As for the 50,000 -- that is only for WAV files. Only WAVs can be
embedded,
and so that setting applies only to WAVs. You are working with MP3s,
so
you
can ignore it. You can leave it alone or set it back to 100 or
whatever. It
doesn't matter.

Oh, file size. 170 slides at 34MB or so doesn't seem out of whack.
So I
don't think the file size is the problem. (I could be wrong, though,
and I'm
sure others will pop in and correct me if I am!)

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"Deloresw" <Deloresw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thank you so much for your comments--you are soooo funny. <smile>
I
need
funny after being submerged in these slideshows.

I have been doing everything you said about adding the music,
except
I
have
spent a lot of time calculating the time for each song and testing
and
retesting when I add or delete a slide to make sure the songs do
not
overlap
or not play long enough. So if I set each song to stop playing
after
999
slides, will this alleviate me having to make adjustments to the
music
when I
need to make changes?

The song that will not play correctly on the XP computers is 2:23
minutes;
4.35 MB, the other songs are 8.18 MB; 4.67 MB; 7.63 MB; and 2.11
MB.
As
you
can see, I have added two more songs. <smile> Each slideshow is
approximately
170 slides of pictures and satelitte maps. The largest slideshow
is
about
34
MB and the others are about 24 MB.

You said "all the files should be "loose" on the CD. If they're
inside a
folder, the CD won't autorun."

If I am understanding you correctly, should I move the music files
and
slideshow file to the same folder BEFORE I begin inserting the
music
files
into the slideshow? I now have the music files in a folder under
"Music."
This morning, I made a new folder to prepare to move the music
files
and
slideshow into this new folder.

Also, should I adjust the maximum size for sound files back down
to
128 kb
from the 50,000 kbs?

Delores

For the sound part, here's the process I'd use to insert the
sounds.

1. On slide 1, Insert | Movies and Sounds | Sound from File.
Navigate
to
your MP3 and insert it.
2. When prompted, select "play automatically."
3. Right-click the sound icon on the slide, choose custom
animation
4. In the custom animation pane, double-click the sound file in
the
animation list to open the Play Sound dialog.
5. On the Effect tab, make sure Start Playing is set to "from
beginning"
and
"stop playing" is set to "after 999 slides." I know you may only
want
the
first sound to play for 10 slides or something, but go ahead and
put
.

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