Music stops playing in PowerPoint 2003 slideshow

I'm betting that PFC's Vista-compatible, but Austin can tell you whether it Plays For
Certain, so to speak g.

But failing that, you might indeed want to look into converting the PPT to a series of
pictures and using Windows Movie Maker (is that still included in your edition of
Vista?) to make a movie with synchronized sound, then make a DVD from it.

You won't get the high resolution you would by playing the PPT back on a computer, but
nearly everybody's got a DVD player these days. It'll be more universally accessible.

In article , Deloresw wrote:
I started out packaging the slideshow to CD and burned it from Powerpoint
with three songs. The third song, I'd Lke to Teach" would not play without
clicking the previous slide, etc. Echo and Austin gave the instructions to me
on how to package the show for CD and save it in a file. I then added two
more songs to the show, so I copied them from my Music folder into the file
created by PowerPoint. So now I have the linked music files from PowerPoint
plus the linked files from my hard drive all in one file. This seemed to
create yet another problem although Echo and Austin both said everything
looked okay after having me check various files in the folder.

I checked the PCFPro website, but I did not find anything that said it was
compatible with VISTA. I already have too many software programs that are not
compatible with VISTA so I don't need anymore.

If I had an easy access to a XP computer, I would be tempted to try saving
the slideshow on XP and redo the music, etc. Last night, I deleted the I'd
Like to Teach" song and replaced it with another song by the same artist who
sings two of the other songs on the slideshow. I have not tested the revised
CD on the XP computers yet, and probably won't get to until Sunday or
sometime next week.

In other words, I really don't know what I more I can do at this point. I
think I need to set it aside for awhile, but it is difficult for me to do.

Another grasping at the straw question I have is if I converted it to play
on a DVD, do you think I would have the same problems?

Steve, thanks for responding!
Deloresw

"Steve Rindsberg" wrote:

I thought of the music rights, but I own all of the CDs that contain the
tracks I am using so thought it would not be an issue.

No, afraid not. Owning the CD means that you have the right to play it and
possibly to make backup copies to CD/cassette etc, though I'm not sure of that.

It doesn't give you the right to distribute the music to others and
unfortunately, putting the music into a PPT presentatation does exactly that.

Also, previously, the
song would play after clicking back to the previous slide and then back to
the slide with the linked song.

That might be a valuable clue. Previous to what? What changed between the time
it'd play and now?

The song in question is "I'd Like to Teach
the World to Sing," by the New Seekers, and I am almost to the point of
hating the song. :-)

Bouncing back and forth between hating it and running out to buy another six-pack
'o Coke, eh? ;-)

I still question if creating the slideshow on a VISTA operating system could
have anything to do with all of this.

Austin has more welts on his hide from Vista and media; I'll defer to him.


"Austin Myers" wrote:

If I can jump in here.

All MP3s are not created equal. Currently there are three different (major)
codecs for MP3s. It may well be that your songs have different codecs and
they are not all available on other machines.

As a suggestion, you might give PFCPro a try (fully functioning two week
trial) and allow it to convert them to a more PowerPoint friendly format.
Once ran through the add-in the songs should play on just about any Windows
PC. (Won't cost you a thing to try it for two weeks and that should get
your presentation out the door.)

http://www.playsforcertain.com


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
www.playsforcertain.com

"Deloresw" wrote in message
...
I created five slideshows in PowerPoint 2003 with the VISTA operating
system
on a new Dell Dimension E520 computer. I embedded the same three different
sound tracks with the .mp3 format into each slideshow. I copied each to a
CD
and made numerous "trial runs" of each on my computer before I copied them
to
the "gift" Cds. I have read comments about PowerPoint only being able to
embed .wav files, but the .mp3 files work fine for me except for one song
on
another computer.

I saved all of the slideshows as a PowerPoint slideshow before I "packaged
them to a CD." The CDs run perfectly on my computer except for not opening
automatically as I had chosen. A window comes up for me to double-click on
the file to open it. I think this has to be caused by VISTA.

The real problem comes from trying to run the slideshows on another
computer. Not only do they NOT start automatically, the music stops at the
beginning and during the third sound track. This problem has happened on
two
different computers with XP and each person having PowerPoint 2003
installed
on their computer.

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.

I cannot find the Sound Option dialog box in PowerPoint 2003 so have not
been able to verify that the .mp3 files are embedded or not. As far as I
am
concerned, they have to be embedded or they would not play on another
computer.

Before I started making the slideshows, I read and copied everything I
could
find with the instructions, read the tutorials, and followed all of the
steps
from the Microsoft website. I am very frustrated about WHY the music
problem
is happening. Each one of the slideshows is for my five grandsons from
their
birth to their current ages. I plan to make CD copies for five more
relatives, but if at all possible, I don't want this glitch to occur. I am
wondering if this problem is a bug in PowerPoint 2003 or maybe somehow
VISTA
could be causing this.

I would appreciate any suggestions anyone may have.

Deloresw







-----------------------------------------
Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
================================================





-----------------------------------------
Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
================================================

First, to answer your question, Steve, Windows Movie Maker is installed on my
computer, but I have not checked it out yet.

I wish I had good news about the PP slideshow, but I don't. My son-in-law
tested the latest revision of the PP slideshow today.
He said he executed the show by clicking on play.bat. I did not see a
play.bat file in the list.

The show played the first song only after he clicked on the screen.
The slides advanced for seven slides and stopped.
The song played for approximately another minute and stopped.
NOTHING happened after that.

Both of the XP computers are having more issues with trying to play the
slideshow after I changed from "packaging to a CD and burning it in PP" to
"packaging to a CD, sending it to a file," and copying the songs from my hard
disk to the file. A reminder, when I copied the files from my hard disk to
the file, this created duplicate copies of the songs in the file. Wouldn't
this cause a conflict?

At least, when I packaged the file to CD and burned it from PP, I only had
trouble with the one song, which I have now deleted from the slideshow. So,
should I now revert back to packaging the CD and and burning it from PP?

Another thing, all of these songs have the Itunes symbol beside them on my
hard disk. I am contemplating unistalling Itunes and quicktime, because I do
not use them at all. I don't like the idea of Itunes taking ownership of my
music files.

As usual, I welcome any suggestions or comments. I can't believe I am the
ONLY one who is having these problems with PP.

Also, I would like to have the answer as to whether or not PFC is compatible
with VISTA.

Deloresw

"Steve Rindsberg" wrote:

I'm betting that PFC's Vista-compatible, but Austin can tell you whether it Plays For
Certain, so to speak g.

But failing that, you might indeed want to look into converting the PPT to a series of
pictures and using Windows Movie Maker (is that still included in your edition of
Vista?) to make a movie with synchronized sound, then make a DVD from it.

You won't get the high resolution you would by playing the PPT back on a computer, but
nearly everybody's got a DVD player these days. It'll be more universally accessible.

In article , Deloresw wrote:
I started out packaging the slideshow to CD and burned it from Powerpoint
with three songs. The third song, I'd Lke to Teach" would not play without
clicking the previous slide, etc. Echo and Austin gave the instructions to me
on how to package the show for CD and save it in a file. I then added two
more songs to the show, so I copied them from my Music folder into the file
created by PowerPoint. So now I have the linked music files from PowerPoint
plus the linked files from my hard drive all in one file. This seemed to
create yet another problem although Echo and Austin both said everything
looked okay after having me check various files in the folder.

I checked the PCFPro website, but I did not find anything that said it was
compatible with VISTA. I already have too many software programs that are not
compatible with VISTA so I don't need anymore.

If I had an easy access to a XP computer, I would be tempted to try saving
the slideshow on XP and redo the music, etc. Last night, I deleted the I'd
Like to Teach" song and replaced it with another song by the same artist who
sings two of the other songs on the slideshow. I have not tested the revised
CD on the XP computers yet, and probably won't get to until Sunday or
sometime next week.

In other words, I really don't know what I more I can do at this point. I
think I need to set it aside for awhile, but it is difficult for me to do.

Another grasping at the straw question I have is if I converted it to play
on a DVD, do you think I would have the same problems?

Steve, thanks for responding!
Deloresw

"Steve Rindsberg" wrote:

I thought of the music rights, but I own all of the CDs that contain the
tracks I am using so thought it would not be an issue.

No, afraid not. Owning the CD means that you have the right to play it and
possibly to make backup copies to CD/cassette etc, though I'm not sure of that.

It doesn't give you the right to distribute the music to others and
unfortunately, putting the music into a PPT presentatation does exactly that.

Also, previously, the
song would play after clicking back to the previous slide and then back to
the slide with the linked song.

That might be a valuable clue. Previous to what? What changed between the time
it'd play and now?

The song in question is "I'd Like to Teach
the World to Sing," by the New Seekers, and I am almost to the point of
hating the song. :-)

Bouncing back and forth between hating it and running out to buy another six-pack
'o Coke, eh? ;-)

I still question if creating the slideshow on a VISTA operating system could
have anything to do with all of this.

Austin has more welts on his hide from Vista and media; I'll defer to him.


"Austin Myers" wrote:

If I can jump in here.

All MP3s are not created equal. Currently there are three different (major)
codecs for MP3s. It may well be that your songs have different codecs and
they are not all available on other machines.

As a suggestion, you might give PFCPro a try (fully functioning two week
trial) and allow it to convert them to a more PowerPoint friendly format.
Once ran through the add-in the songs should play on just about any Windows
PC. (Won't cost you a thing to try it for two weeks and that should get
your presentation out the door.)

http://www.playsforcertain.com


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
www.playsforcertain.com

"Deloresw" wrote in message
...
I created five slideshows in PowerPoint 2003 with the VISTA operating
system
on a new Dell Dimension E520 computer. I embedded the same three different
sound tracks with the .mp3 format into each slideshow. I copied each to a
CD
and made numerous "trial runs" of each on my computer before I copied them
to
the "gift" Cds. I have read comments about PowerPoint only being able to
embed .wav files, but the .mp3 files work fine for me except for one song
on
another computer.

I saved all of the slideshows as a PowerPoint slideshow before I "packaged
them to a CD." The CDs run perfectly on my computer except for not opening
automatically as I had chosen. A window comes up for me to double-click on
the file to open it. I think this has to be caused by VISTA.

The real problem comes from trying to run the slideshows on another
computer. Not only do they NOT start automatically, the music stops at the
beginning and during the third sound track. This problem has happened on
two
different computers with XP and each person having PowerPoint 2003
installed
on their computer.

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.

I cannot find the Sound Option dialog box in PowerPoint 2003 so have not
been able to verify that the .mp3 files are embedded or not. As far as I
am
concerned, they have to be embedded or they would not play on another
computer.

Before I started making the slideshows, I read and copied everything I
could
find with the instructions, read the tutorials, and followed all of the
steps
from the Microsoft website. I am very frustrated about WHY the music
problem
is happening. Each one of the slideshows is for my five grandsons from
their
birth to their current ages. I plan to make CD copies for five more
relatives, but if at all possible, I don't want this glitch to occur. I am
wondering if this problem is a bug in PowerPoint 2003 or maybe somehow
VISTA
could be causing this.

I would appreciate any suggestions anyone may have.

Deloresw







-----------------------------------------
Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
================================================





-----------------------------------------
Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
================================================

If you're using Package for CD, whether to folder or to CD directly, you
don't have to copy the music files into the folder separately. It shouldn't
cause a conflict, because the duplicates will have "copy 1" or whatever
appended to their file name automatically when you paste the duplicate, but
you don't need to do it.

But I don't know what the problem with the sound files on the CD is.

And yes, PFCPro works on Vista.

--
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/power...noy/index.html
PPTLive! Oct 28-31, New Orleans http://www.pptlive.com

"Deloresw" wrote in message
...
First, to answer your question, Steve, Windows Movie Maker is installed on
my
computer, but I have not checked it out yet.

I wish I had good news about the PP slideshow, but I don't. My son-in-law
tested the latest revision of the PP slideshow today.
He said he executed the show by clicking on play.bat. I did not see a
play.bat file in the list.

The show played the first song only after he clicked on the screen.
The slides advanced for seven slides and stopped.
The song played for approximately another minute and stopped.
NOTHING happened after that.

Both of the XP computers are having more issues with trying to play the
slideshow after I changed from "packaging to a CD and burning it in PP" to
"packaging to a CD, sending it to a file," and copying the songs from my
hard
disk to the file. A reminder, when I copied the files from my hard disk to
the file, this created duplicate copies of the songs in the file. Wouldn't
this cause a conflict?

At least, when I packaged the file to CD and burned it from PP, I only had
trouble with the one song, which I have now deleted from the slideshow.
So,
should I now revert back to packaging the CD and and burning it from PP?

Another thing, all of these songs have the Itunes symbol beside them on my
hard disk. I am contemplating unistalling Itunes and quicktime, because I
do
not use them at all. I don't like the idea of Itunes taking ownership of
my
music files.

As usual, I welcome any suggestions or comments. I can't believe I am the
ONLY one who is having these problems with PP.

Also, I would like to have the answer as to whether or not PFC is
compatible
with VISTA.

Deloresw

"Steve Rindsberg" wrote:

I'm betting that PFC's Vista-compatible, but Austin can tell you whether
it Plays For
Certain, so to speak g.

But failing that, you might indeed want to look into converting the PPT
to a series of
pictures and using Windows Movie Maker (is that still included in your
edition of
Vista?) to make a movie with synchronized sound, then make a DVD from it.

You won't get the high resolution you would by playing the PPT back on a
computer, but
nearly everybody's got a DVD player these days. It'll be more
universally accessible.

In article , Deloresw
wrote:
I started out packaging the slideshow to CD and burned it from
Powerpoint
with three songs. The third song, I'd Lke to Teach" would not play
without
clicking the previous slide, etc. Echo and Austin gave the instructions
to me
on how to package the show for CD and save it in a file. I then added
two
more songs to the show, so I copied them from my Music folder into the
file
created by PowerPoint. So now I have the linked music files from
PowerPoint
plus the linked files from my hard drive all in one file. This seemed
to
create yet another problem although Echo and Austin both said
everything
looked okay after having me check various files in the folder.

I checked the PCFPro website, but I did not find anything that said it
was
compatible with VISTA. I already have too many software programs that
are not
compatible with VISTA so I don't need anymore.

If I had an easy access to a XP computer, I would be tempted to try
saving
the slideshow on XP and redo the music, etc. Last night, I deleted the
I'd
Like to Teach" song and replaced it with another song by the same
artist who
sings two of the other songs on the slideshow. I have not tested the
revised
CD on the XP computers yet, and probably won't get to until Sunday or
sometime next week.

In other words, I really don't know what I more I can do at this point.
I
think I need to set it aside for awhile, but it is difficult for me to
do.

Another grasping at the straw question I have is if I converted it to
play
on a DVD, do you think I would have the same problems?

Steve, thanks for responding!
Deloresw

"Steve Rindsberg" wrote:

I thought of the music rights, but I own all of the CDs that
contain the
tracks I am using so thought it would not be an issue.

No, afraid not. Owning the CD means that you have the right to play
it and
possibly to make backup copies to CD/cassette etc, though I'm not
sure of that.

It doesn't give you the right to distribute the music to others and
unfortunately, putting the music into a PPT presentatation does
exactly that.

Also, previously, the
song would play after clicking back to the previous slide and then
back to
the slide with the linked song.

That might be a valuable clue. Previous to what? What changed
between the time
it'd play and now?

The song in question is "I'd Like to Teach
the World to Sing," by the New Seekers, and I am almost to the
point of
hating the song. :-)

Bouncing back and forth between hating it and running out to buy
another six-pack
'o Coke, eh? ;-)

I still question if creating the slideshow on a VISTA operating
system could
have anything to do with all of this.

Austin has more welts on his hide from Vista and media; I'll defer
to him.


"Austin Myers" wrote:

If I can jump in here.

All MP3s are not created equal. Currently there are three
different (major)
codecs for MP3s. It may well be that your songs have different
codecs and
they are not all available on other machines.

As a suggestion, you might give PFCPro a try (fully functioning
two week
trial) and allow it to convert them to a more PowerPoint friendly
format.
Once ran through the add-in the songs should play on just about
any Windows
PC. (Won't cost you a thing to try it for two weeks and that
should get
your presentation out the door.)

http://www.playsforcertain.com


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
www.playsforcertain.com

"Deloresw" wrote in message
...
I created five slideshows in PowerPoint 2003 with the VISTA
operating
system
on a new Dell Dimension E520 computer. I embedded the same
three different
sound tracks with the .mp3 format into each slideshow. I copied
each to a
CD
and made numerous "trial runs" of each on my computer before I
copied them
to
the "gift" Cds. I have read comments about PowerPoint only
being able to
embed .wav files, but the .mp3 files work fine for me except
for one song
on
another computer.

I saved all of the slideshows as a PowerPoint slideshow before
I "packaged
them to a CD." The CDs run perfectly on my computer except for
not opening
automatically as I had chosen. A window comes up for me to
double-click on
the file to open it. I think this has to be caused by VISTA.

The real problem comes from trying to run the slideshows on
another
computer. Not only do they NOT start automatically, the music
stops at the
beginning and during the third sound track. This problem has
happened on
two
different computers with XP and each person having PowerPoint
2003
installed
on their computer.

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.

I cannot find the Sound Option dialog box in PowerPoint 2003 so
have not
been able to verify that the .mp3 files are embedded or not. As
far as I
am
concerned, they have to be embedded or they would not play on
another
computer.

Before I started making the slideshows, I read and copied
everything I
could
find with the instructions, read the tutorials, and followed
all of the
steps
from the Microsoft website. I am very frustrated about WHY the
music
problem
is happening. Each one of the slideshows is for my five
grandsons from
their
birth to their current ages. I plan to make CD copies for five
more
relatives, but if at all possible, I don't want this glitch to
occur. I am
wondering if this problem is a bug in PowerPoint 2003 or maybe
somehow
VISTA
could be causing this.

I would appreciate any suggestions anyone may have.

Deloresw







-----------------------------------------
Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
================================================





-----------------------------------------
Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
================================================

In article , Deloresw wrote:
First, to answer your question, Steve, Windows Movie Maker is installed on my
computer, but I have not checked it out yet.

I wish I had good news about the PP slideshow, but I don't. My son-in-law
tested the latest revision of the PP slideshow today.
He said he executed the show by clicking on play.bat. I did not see a
play.bat file in the list.

Do you see something called just Play? Your copy of windows may be set to the default
settings, which include "Hide the file extensions that I need to see in order to solve
problems" g

Make Windows show file extensions and hidden files
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00781.htm

I am doing the Happy Dance!

All of the songs play correctly now!! YEAH! I did some more experimenting so
don't know which experiment solved the problem.

1. I deleted the "problem song," I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" and
replaced it with "Sound of Silence," by Simon & Garfunkel.
2. I uninstalled Itunes and went through all of my music files and checked
to make sure they would be Media Player files. Jukebox came with this
computer, but I changed the ones with the Jukebox symbol to play on Media
Player.
3. I then went back and removed and reinserted the music files in all of the
slideshows.
4. I packaged and burned the CD from PowerPoint.

I did a test run today on one of the XP computers, and FINALLY, the music
works as it should!

I really appreciate everyone's patience and suggestions!

Now, back to my "Happy Dance." :-)

Deloresw

"Echo S" wrote:

If you're using Package for CD, whether to folder or to CD directly, you
don't have to copy the music files into the folder separately. It shouldn't
cause a conflict, because the duplicates will have "copy 1" or whatever
appended to their file name automatically when you paste the duplicate, but
you don't need to do it.

But I don't know what the problem with the sound files on the CD is.

And yes, PFCPro works on Vista.

--
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/power...noy/index.html
PPTLive! Oct 28-31, New Orleans http://www.pptlive.com

"Deloresw" wrote in message
...
First, to answer your question, Steve, Windows Movie Maker is installed on
my
computer, but I have not checked it out yet.

I wish I had good news about the PP slideshow, but I don't. My son-in-law
tested the latest revision of the PP slideshow today.
He said he executed the show by clicking on play.bat. I did not see a
play.bat file in the list.

The show played the first song only after he clicked on the screen.
The slides advanced for seven slides and stopped.
The song played for approximately another minute and stopped.
NOTHING happened after that.

Both of the XP computers are having more issues with trying to play the
slideshow after I changed from "packaging to a CD and burning it in PP" to
"packaging to a CD, sending it to a file," and copying the songs from my
hard
disk to the file. A reminder, when I copied the files from my hard disk to
the file, this created duplicate copies of the songs in the file. Wouldn't
this cause a conflict?

At least, when I packaged the file to CD and burned it from PP, I only had
trouble with the one song, which I have now deleted from the slideshow.
So,
should I now revert back to packaging the CD and and burning it from PP?

Another thing, all of these songs have the Itunes symbol beside them on my
hard disk. I am contemplating unistalling Itunes and quicktime, because I
do
not use them at all. I don't like the idea of Itunes taking ownership of
my
music files.

As usual, I welcome any suggestions or comments. I can't believe I am the
ONLY one who is having these problems with PP.

Also, I would like to have the answer as to whether or not PFC is
compatible
with VISTA.

Deloresw

"Steve Rindsberg" wrote:

I'm betting that PFC's Vista-compatible, but Austin can tell you whether
it Plays For
Certain, so to speak g.

But failing that, you might indeed want to look into converting the PPT
to a series of
pictures and using Windows Movie Maker (is that still included in your
edition of
Vista?) to make a movie with synchronized sound, then make a DVD from it.

You won't get the high resolution you would by playing the PPT back on a
computer, but
nearly everybody's got a DVD player these days. It'll be more
universally accessible.

In article , Deloresw
wrote:
I started out packaging the slideshow to CD and burned it from
Powerpoint
with three songs. The third song, I'd Lke to Teach" would not play
without
clicking the previous slide, etc. Echo and Austin gave the instructions
to me
on how to package the show for CD and save it in a file. I then added
two
more songs to the show, so I copied them from my Music folder into the
file
created by PowerPoint. So now I have the linked music files from
PowerPoint
plus the linked files from my hard drive all in one file. This seemed
to
create yet another problem although Echo and Austin both said
everything
looked okay after having me check various files in the folder.

I checked the PCFPro website, but I did not find anything that said it
was
compatible with VISTA. I already have too many software programs that
are not
compatible with VISTA so I don't need anymore.

If I had an easy access to a XP computer, I would be tempted to try
saving
the slideshow on XP and redo the music, etc. Last night, I deleted the
I'd
Like to Teach" song and replaced it with another song by the same
artist who
sings two of the other songs on the slideshow. I have not tested the
revised
CD on the XP computers yet, and probably won't get to until Sunday or
sometime next week.

In other words, I really don't know what I more I can do at this point.
I
think I need to set it aside for awhile, but it is difficult for me to
do.

Another grasping at the straw question I have is if I converted it to
play
on a DVD, do you think I would have the same problems?

Steve, thanks for responding!
Deloresw

"Steve Rindsberg" wrote:

I thought of the music rights, but I own all of the CDs that
contain the
tracks I am using so thought it would not be an issue.

No, afraid not. Owning the CD means that you have the right to play
it and
possibly to make backup copies to CD/cassette etc, though I'm not
sure of that.

It doesn't give you the right to distribute the music to others and
unfortunately, putting the music into a PPT presentatation does
exactly that.

Also, previously, the
song would play after clicking back to the previous slide and then
back to
the slide with the linked song.

That might be a valuable clue. Previous to what? What changed
between the time
it'd play and now?

The song in question is "I'd Like to Teach
the World to Sing," by the New Seekers, and I am almost to the
point of
hating the song. :-)

Bouncing back and forth between hating it and running out to buy
another six-pack
'o Coke, eh? ;-)

I still question if creating the slideshow on a VISTA operating
system could
have anything to do with all of this.

Austin has more welts on his hide from Vista and media; I'll defer
to him.


"Austin Myers" wrote:

If I can jump in here.

All MP3s are not created equal. Currently there are three
different (major)
codecs for MP3s. It may well be that your songs have different
codecs and
they are not all available on other machines.

As a suggestion, you might give PFCPro a try (fully functioning
two week
trial) and allow it to convert them to a more PowerPoint friendly
format.
Once ran through the add-in the songs should play on just about
any Windows
PC. (Won't cost you a thing to try it for two weeks and that
should get
your presentation out the door.)

http://www.playsforcertain.com


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
www.playsforcertain.com

"Deloresw" wrote in message
...
I created five slideshows in PowerPoint 2003 with the VISTA
operating
system
on a new Dell Dimension E520 computer. I embedded the same
three different
sound tracks with the .mp3 format into each slideshow. I copied
each to a
CD
and made numerous "trial runs" of each on my computer before I
copied them
to
the "gift" Cds. I have read comments about PowerPoint only
being able to
embed .wav files, but the .mp3 files work fine for me except
for one song
on
another computer.

I saved all of the slideshows as a PowerPoint slideshow before
I "packaged
them to a CD." The CDs run perfectly on my computer except for
not opening
automatically as I had chosen. A window comes up for me to
double-click on
the file to open it. I think this has to be caused by VISTA.

The real problem comes from trying to run the slideshows on
another
computer. Not only do they NOT start automatically, the music
stops at the
beginning and during the third sound track. This problem has
happened on
two
different computers with XP and each person having PowerPoint
2003
installed
on their computer.

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.

I cannot find the Sound Option dialog box in PowerPoint 2003 so
have not
been able to verify that the .mp3 files are embedded or not. As
far as I
am
concerned, they have to be embedded or they would not play on
another
computer.

Before I started making the slideshows, I read and copied
everything I
could
find with the instructions, read the tutorials, and followed
all of the
steps
from the Microsoft website. I am very frustrated about WHY the
music
problem
is happening. Each one of the slideshows is for my five
grandsons from
their
birth to their current ages. I plan to make CD copies for five
more
relatives, but if at all possible, I don't want this glitch to
occur. I am
wondering if this problem is a bug in PowerPoint 2003 or maybe
somehow
VISTA
could be causing this.

I would appreciate any suggestions anyone may have.

Deloresw







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In article , Deloresw wrote:
I am doing the Happy Dance!

PowerPoint with video of that to appear soon? ;-)

I am afraid it would not be a pretty picture to see a 70-year-old woman doing
the happy dance! :-)

"Steve Rindsberg" wrote:

In article , Deloresw wrote:
I am doing the Happy Dance!

PowerPoint with video of that to appear soon? ;-)

LOL!

Well done, woman! I'm very happy to hear that you got things working again.

--
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"Deloresw" wrote in message
...
I am afraid it would not be a pretty picture to see a 70-year-old woman
doing
the happy dance! :-)

"Steve Rindsberg" wrote:

In article , Deloresw
wrote:
I am doing the Happy Dance!

PowerPoint with video of that to appear soon? ;-)

In article , Deloresw wrote:
I am afraid it would not be a pretty picture to see a 70-year-old woman doing
the happy dance! :-)

g

I've seen scarier things.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...oogl e+Search

-----------------------------------------
Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
================================================

Unfortunately probably can't help with sound tracks. (Will try in a minute)

But with the automatic start problem, you probably need to be sure that all
of the files in your CD package are at the ROOTof that CD.

That is, if PPT (or you) have put the "Package for CD" packaged files in any
sort of folder, you need to remove that folder. Copy ALL of its CONTENTS
(the Viewer, your presentation, sounds, etc.) - - - with no containing folder
- - - directly to the CD.

Otherwise the Viewer does not immediately see an actionable file when your
CD hits it - - - it (the Viewer) sees that intervening folder, which is not
an actionable item.

So it just sits there. (I know. It shouldn't be that way. But, as many
of us seem to be painfully aware - - - there are a lot of things about PPT
that shouldn't be that way).


About the sound problem: it seems that sounds have a way of hanging up other
slide advancement, sound files, etc. (regardeless of what start and stop
times you put on them) because they hang up the program for the full duration
of the ORIGINAL sound file.

You might try editing those sounds in an external editor (Sound Forge,
whatever)where the edit can be "destructive", i.e. you actually render a new
file where the stuff you don't want is actually taken out - - - and not just
"non-distructively" hidden.

The "edit" you perform in PPT, with Start and Stop times, seems to be a
non-destructive edit that does not really remove the rest of what you don't
want to hear.

So, it seems, the unwanted stuff throws all of your PPT timings/setting off
by the amount of the original sound file's length.

I have not tried this yet, but I am certainly going to.

Maybe you'll get a better suggestion but, if not, give it a whirl. Hope it
helps.



"Deloresw" wrote:

I created five slideshows in PowerPoint 2003 with the VISTA operating system
on a new Dell Dimension E520 computer. I embedded the same three different
sound tracks with the .mp3 format into each slideshow. I copied each to a CD
and made numerous “trial runs� of each on my computer before I copied them to
the “gift� Cds. I have read comments about PowerPoint only being able to
embed .wav files, but the .mp3 files work fine for me except for one song on
another computer.

I saved all of the slideshows as a PowerPoint slideshow before I “packaged
them to a CD.� The CDs run perfectly on my computer except for not opening
automatically as I had chosen. A window comes up for me to double-click on
the file to open it. I think this has to be caused by VISTA.

The real problem comes from trying to run the slideshows on another
computer. Not only do they NOT start automatically, the music stops at the
beginning and during the third sound track. This problem has happened on two
different computers with XP and each person having PowerPoint 2003 installed
on their computer.

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.

I cannot find the Sound Option dialog box in PowerPoint 2003 so have not
been able to verify that the .mp3 files are embedded or not. As far as I am
concerned, they have to be embedded or they would not play on another
computer.

Before I started making the slideshows, I read and copied everything I could
find with the instructions, read the tutorials, and followed all of the steps
from the Microsoft website. I am very frustrated about WHY the music problem
is happening. Each one of the slideshows is for my five grandsons from their
birth to their current ages. I plan to make CD copies for five more
relatives, but if at all possible, I don’t want this glitch to occur. I am
wondering if this problem is a bug in PowerPoint 2003 or maybe somehow VISTA
could be causing this.

I would appreciate any suggestions anyone may have.

Deloresw