Power Point Presentation music

I am using powerpoint 2003 and have created a presentation. i have added music and it worksw fine on my machine. when i email this slideshow to the receipent than it does not play the music but just shows the slides. I have done everything that needs to be done in terms of adding music and linking it.

please tell me how i can add music to my slideshow and email it without loosing the music.


Rajnil

In which format are you emailing the presentation, Rajnil, make sure it's the .PPS format.

You mention the word "linking it"...Is it linked or embedded? Another thought,....although it is likely "your side" that is the problem...you should eliminate the viewers side and confirm they can hear audio files etc too.

Rajnil, I am having the EXACT same issue as you and it's driving me crazy. I have tried doing everything that they have suggested, "linking the file," saving it as a .pps, and several other things. No matter what I've tried to change, if I email the presentation to anyone, it doesn't play the sound. I have spent nearly two hours researching this and have come across this site. Anything that you've learned that you'd like to pass along?

I used to have the same problem. I also believe this problem also occurs when using a different computer. When you send a presentation to other people with the music you added in, I realised that that other people do not have the original music file that you have that you added in. I've tried various methods to solve that problem. In the end, when I send any presentations, I send with the music files. I know it is a tedious method but that's how I solved it.

Maybe there's an easier way to solve this problem.

Hi! fadzbluegal

You are right. The reason is that the inserted music in not embeded in PowerPoint.It is linked to the presentation. Only audio in WAV format is embeded in Powerpoint presentation. And " linked" means that you have to send the music together with the presentation in a same folder although you have inserted it to your file.

Or you can try something else. Nowdays it is very popular to convert PowerPoint to flash because of the small file size and the effects.
There are some conversion softwares that enable you to convert PowerPoint Presentation to flash for e-mail publish and add backgtound music or narration, or flash movies.

I think with with third party software we could make full advantage of PowerPoint.

Hope it helps and happy to share it with you .

If you want to run your presentation, distribute it on CD, or save it to a folder or network share, you can use the Package for CD command on the File menu. Package for CD copies your presentation along with any supporting files either onto a CD or to a single folder or network share. When you package your presentation, you can make your slide show play automatically. Also, the Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 Viewer is included by default, which means the computer that plays the CD does not need to have PowerPoint installed. For more information, see the Help topics About packaging and copying a presentation to CD and Package a presentation for CD.

hi

I think the most suitable way for you is to package the ppt to CD

But the precondition is you have ppt viewer installed in your pc which can

packaged with ppt automatically to the CD,or the ppt recipter have the ppt

or viewer.

Remenber that the PPT in CD just a file ,it can't autorun without a program(PPT or viewer)

I had the same problem. I saw this paragraph in some other place, and everything was resolved.

PowerPoint by default links to sound files greater than 100Kb. This means that if you embed your sound file into your PowerPoint presentation and send your presentation by email, or play your presentation on another machine, the sound file will not play.

To embed your sound file into PowerPoint
Choose "Options" from the Tools main menu and go to the General tab.
Set the value next to "Link sounds with file size greater than" to 5000 kb. This will allow you to embed sound files of up to 5megabytes each. Enter a higher number if you wish to embed even larger sound files.
Click OK.
If you have already added sounds to your presentation before following steps 1 -3 above, then you will need to locate and delete each of the sound files, and re-insert them using Insert, Movies and Sounds, Sound from File....

powerpoint will 'embed/include' .wav files within your presentation file (.ppt)

it will not normally embed mp3 files.

However, - there is away around this using smoke and mirrors.

see
http://www.technologytrish.co.uk/pptembedmp3.html

cheers

From the "Smoke and Mirrors" man!

There's a newer version of this tutorial which has more detail and a screencast.
I want to embed mp3 files in PowerPoint