adding a sound file to powerpoint 2003

[lorrayne]

I have followed the step by step to adding sound to presentations. When I
send per email the sound does not play for the recipient although I have
extended the size to 50MB. Please let me have some suggestions as to what I
am doing wrong.

 

[Echo S]

I have followed the step by step to adding sound to presentations. When I
send per email the sound does not play for the recipient although I have
extended the size to 50MB. Please let me have some suggestions as to what
I
am doing wrong.

Only WAV sounds are embedded. Is your sound file a WAV?

If so, did you increase the size to 50MB before you inserted the WAV, or
after? It needs to be changed before the WAV is inserted. You can delete the
sound and reinsert it to be sure.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/
How to Prevent PowerPoint Overload (March 23 webcast)
http://tinyurl.com/bp2h8

 

[lorrayne]

Thanks for your response. I increased the size to 50MB and inserted a midi
sound file. Would this present a problem.

I have followed the step by step to adding sound to presentations. When I
send per email the sound does not play for the recipient although I have
extended the size to 50MB. Please let me have some suggestions as to what
I
am doing wrong.

Only WAV sounds are embedded. Is your sound file a WAV?

If so, did you increase the size to 50MB before you inserted the WAV, or
after? It needs to be changed before the WAV is inserted. You can delete the
sound and reinsert it to be sure.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/
How to Prevent PowerPoint Overload (March 23 webcast)
http://tinyurl.com/bp2h8

 

[Echo S]

Yes, that would present a problem. MIDI files cannot be embedded.

http://www.echosvoice.com/gotchas.htm#SoundAdvice might help you work around
it.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/
How to Prevent PowerPoint Overload (March 23 webcast)
http://tinyurl.com/bp2h8

Thanks for your response. I increased the size to 50MB and inserted a midi
sound file. Would this present a problem.

I have followed the step by step to adding sound to presentations. When
I
send per email the sound does not play for the recipient although I
have
extended the size to 50MB. Please let me have some suggestions as to
what
I
am doing wrong.

Only WAV sounds are embedded. Is your sound file a WAV?

If so, did you increase the size to 50MB before you inserted the WAV, or
after? It needs to be changed before the WAV is inserted. You can delete
the
sound and reinsert it to be sure.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/
How to Prevent PowerPoint Overload (March 23 webcast)
http://tinyurl.com/bp2h8

 

[desperate]

Echo,
Lorrayne question is similar to mine so I followed your instruction but when
I save my MP3 file to a WAV and insert it to my PPT...and after I email it to
my friends the sound won't play..it's playing in my PC but not to my friends.
what am i doing wrong?
please help and thank you
desperate

I have followed the step by step to adding sound to presentations. When I
send per email the sound does not play for the recipient although I have
extended the size to 50MB. Please let me have some suggestions as to what
I
am doing wrong.

Only WAV sounds are embedded. Is your sound file a WAV?

If so, did you increase the size to 50MB before you inserted the WAV, or
after? It needs to be changed before the WAV is inserted. You can delete the
sound and reinsert it to be sure.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/
How to Prevent PowerPoint Overload (March 23 webcast)
http://tinyurl.com/bp2h8

 

[Echo S]

Hard to say what you're doing wrong without specific information on how you
inserted the sound and how you saved the MP3 to a WAV.

Generally speaking, you need to go to Tools|Options and change the "link
sounds with file size greater than" to 50000. THEN insert your WAV using
Insert|Movies and Sounds|Sound from File. If you do these things in
sequence, and if your WAV is smaller than about 50MB, then it should be
embedded in your PPT file.

If you converted the MP3 to WAV by adding RIFF-WAV headers, those don't seem
to play reliably on all systems.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/
How to Prevent PowerPoint Overload (March 23 webcast)
http://tinyurl.com/bp2h8

Echo,
Lorrayne question is similar to mine so I followed your instruction but
when
I save my MP3 file to a WAV and insert it to my PPT...and after I email it
to
my friends the sound won't play..it's playing in my PC but not to my
friends.
what am i doing wrong?
please help and thank you
desperate

I have followed the step by step to adding sound to presentations. When
I
send per email the sound does not play for the recipient although I
have
extended the size to 50MB. Please let me have some suggestions as to
what
I
am doing wrong.

Only WAV sounds are embedded. Is your sound file a WAV?

If so, did you increase the size to 50MB before you inserted the WAV, or
after? It needs to be changed before the WAV is inserted. You can delete
the
sound and reinsert it to be sure.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/
How to Prevent PowerPoint Overload (March 23 webcast)
http://tinyurl.com/bp2h8

 

[lorrayne]

Echo and Desperate
Thanks for your responses - I thought I was the only one that was frustrated
with this isssue!!!
I am working off PPT 2003 and have followed your instructions re inserting
sound etc and have used an existing WAV sound file - but email recipients are
still receiving no sound. What is the best download to convert MP3 or WMP to
WAV? Perhaps I should to that?

Hard to say what you're doing wrong without specific information on how you
inserted the sound and how you saved the MP3 to a WAV.

Generally speaking, you need to go to Tools|Options and change the "link
sounds with file size greater than" to 50000. THEN insert your WAV using
Insert|Movies and Sounds|Sound from File. If you do these things in
sequence, and if your WAV is smaller than about 50MB, then it should be
embedded in your PPT file.

If you converted the MP3 to WAV by adding RIFF-WAV headers, those don't seem
to play reliably on all systems.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/
How to Prevent PowerPoint Overload (March 23 webcast)
http://tinyurl.com/bp2h8

Echo,
Lorrayne question is similar to mine so I followed your instruction but
when
I save my MP3 file to a WAV and insert it to my PPT...and after I email it
to
my friends the sound won't play..it's playing in my PC but not to my
friends.
what am i doing wrong?
please help and thank you
desperate

I have followed the step by step to adding sound to presentations. When
I
send per email the sound does not play for the recipient although I
have
extended the size to 50MB. Please let me have some suggestions as to
what
I
am doing wrong.

Only WAV sounds are embedded. Is your sound file a WAV?

If so, did you increase the size to 50MB before you inserted the WAV, or
after? It needs to be changed before the WAV is inserted. You can delete
the
sound and reinsert it to be sure.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/
How to Prevent PowerPoint Overload (March 23 webcast)
http://tinyurl.com/bp2h8

 

[lorrayne]

I think that I have finally done it! I copied the WAV file to the folder
where the PPT was. I then inserted into presentation. The email attachment
increased to 1MB in size. So hopefully this may have helped. Am waiting on my
friend to let me know that they are able to hear sound. Will advise you.
Also when converting from WPA to WAV the file becomes larger - like 20MB -
definetely not easy to email. Is there a way to reduce the sound file size or
can one insert any other type of sound file to PPT?

 

[Echo S]

Well, hopefully you're on the right track now.

WAV files are often very large. You can usually halve the size by changing
from stereo to mono and re-saving the WAV.

Use an audio editor such as Audacity to do this kind of editing.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Resampling can also help. You'd do that in the audio editor as well.

Another option is to convert the WMA to an MP3 and add RIFF-WAV headers to
fool PPT into thinking the MP3 is a WAV. Add RIFF-WAV headers with programs
like Cdex. http://www.download.com/CDex/3000-2140_4-10226370.html

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/
How to Prevent PowerPoint Overload (March 23 webcast)
http://tinyurl.com/bp2h8

 

[lorrayne]

Many thanks for your advice and assistance. Yes, I agree the WAV files are
actually too large. Will go along with your suggestions and give you
feedback. One also has to save the sound files in the same folder as the PPT
file in order not to confuse the source. This helped too.
regards and thanks once again

Well, hopefully you're on the right track now.

WAV files are often very large. You can usually halve the size by changing
from stereo to mono and re-saving the WAV.

Use an audio editor such as Audacity to do this kind of editing.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Resampling can also help. You'd do that in the audio editor as well.

Another option is to convert the WMA to an MP3 and add RIFF-WAV headers to
fool PPT into thinking the MP3 is a WAV. Add RIFF-WAV headers with programs
like Cdex. http://www.download.com/CDex/3000-2140_4-10226370.html

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/
How to Prevent PowerPoint Overload (March 23 webcast)
http://tinyurl.com/bp2h8

I think that I have finally done it! I copied the WAV file to the folder
where the PPT was. I then inserted into presentation. The email attachment
increased to 1MB in size. So hopefully this may have helped. Am waiting on
my
friend to let me know that they are able to hear sound. Will advise you.
Also when converting from WPA to WAV the file becomes larger - like 20MB -
definetely not easy to email. Is there a way to reduce the sound file size
or
can one insert any other type of sound file to PPT?