Re: Music stops playing in PowerPoint 2003 slideshow

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"?

--
Echo S [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PowerPoint 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/index.html
PPTLive! Oct 28-31, New Orleans http://www.pptlive.com

"Deloresw" <Deloresw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:D2AE69FE-9AFD-4D51-A990-84DBC76C3C40@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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!)

--
Echo S [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PowerPoint 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/index.html
PPTLive! Oct 28-31, New Orleans http://www.pptlive.com

"Deloresw" <Deloresw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:5A7CCBB8-46A0-4785-A4B3-32E2524E9709@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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
999
in
there.
6. Click OK to close.

Now go to the slide you want the 2nd sound file to begin playing on
and
repeat the process. Put 999 in the "stop playing after" setting
again. Do
the same for the 3rd sound file.

You may have this set up just fine, and it could be just that the
computer
is running out of resources as you play the presentation. After all,
it's
running from a CD, which is slower than running from the harddrive.
This...

The music plays fine with the first two sound tracks. The only
way we
can
start the music of the third sound track is to go back and click
on
the
prior
slide to advance to the slide with the third sound track. The
third
sound
track plays for awhile and then stops a couple more times so we
have
to
go
through the same procedure to start the music again.

...is the odd part, and the part that's making me think it may be a
resources issue. How big is the third MP3 file? (I know they're not
usually
large, but it never hurts to ask.) Also, how big is your PPT file --
like,
how many slides and also how big is the file size (in kb or MB)? If
you
have
lots of high-resolution pictures, that often makes the file size very
large
and could be bogging down the playback. It can be resolved, but I
hate to
send you down that road if it's not really the issue.

--
B each.





"Echo S" wrote:

If you use Package for CD, the MP3 files should be in the same
folder
with
the presentation and Viewer files. They will be properly linked (the
package
for CD process resolves all the links for you) and should play on
other
computers.

If the first two play, I'd imagine that the packaging and linking
went
okay,
and the third one should as well. Since it does play at least
sometimes
on
the other computers, it sounds to me (no pun intended) as if the
MP3s are
all linked properly.

For the automatic starting part, I would try this:
.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Music stops playing in PowerPoint 2003 slideshow
    ... 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"? ... I changed the effect options to "Stop playing after 999 slides," the songs ... > of the total sound length. ... > creates a new folder and puts the presentation and the MP3s in the same ...
    (microsoft.public.powerpoint)
  • Re: Music stops playing in PowerPoint 2003 slideshow
    ... Play all presentations automatically in the specified order ... > I changed the effect options to "Stop playing after 999 slides," the> songs ... > song, and second song to play 3 times, etc. ... >>> As for putting the MP3 into the folder with the presentation before ...
    (microsoft.public.powerpoint)
  • Re: Music stops playing in PowerPoint 2003 slideshow
    ... timing adjustments to the slide transitions. ... what I might do is use a sound editor and combine all the MP3s into one ... As for putting the MP3 into the folder with the presentation before ... or not play long enough. ...
    (microsoft.public.powerpoint)
  • Re: Help with applying sound to slide show
    ... If you ripped the file with Windows Media Player, that also adds DRM so you may not be able to play the sound in PPT on another computer. ... PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit http://tinyurl.com/32a7nx ... It could still be a path length issue - your My Documents folder is actually C:\Documents and Settings\\My Documents so if you then add on a folder name and the song title is long you can easily exceed the 128 character limit. ...
    (microsoft.public.powerpoint)
  • Re: Audio file from CD in PowerPoint prematurely stops
    ... I suspect, then, it's an issue with playing from CD. ... You might want to try PFCMedia and see if resolves the issue with sound ... but I can't get them to play (even ... you set the sound to play across, say, 10 slides, but you were going back ...
    (microsoft.public.powerpoint)
Loading