Re: Music stops playing in PowerPoint 2003 slideshow

Thanks for the suggestion!

There is not a play.bat file in the list. I did a search for it, but nothing
was found. I had created a folder C:\\AlecH and when I packaged the slideshow
named AlecNew.pps, it created a subfolder called Alec0707--the name I
assigned to the package and selected copy to file so now the path is
C:\\AlecH\Alec0707, which contains all of the information for the CD. Could
the longer file name be the problem?

Deloresw

"Michael Koerner" wrote:

I have a folder on my C: drive called "tocd" without the quotes I created
this when I created my first copy to CD program. Now all I have to do is
copy any presentation to the folder, make the name change in the playlst
file and burn to a CD. Does not matter what your folder is called, as you
don't copy the folder to the CD. Everything goes into the root directory of
your CD .

--
Michael Koerner
MS MVP - PowerPoint


"Deloresw" <Deloresw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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One more question--When I package the PowerPoint slideshow, I always type
in
a different name for the CD or file than the name of my PP slideshow. Is
this
the correct thing to do or am I supposed to use the same name as my PP
slideshow?

I have been curious where the CD or file name goes to. My actual PP
slideshow file name always appears in the list on the CD, but I have never
seen anything about the name I assigned to the packaging. I hope this
makes
sense.
Deloresw

"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
.

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