adding background music to a PowerPoint Presentation

[André]

I want to add music from a file or CD which is not interrrupted every time a
new slide comes on. How is that done?

 

[Kathy J]

Try this entry from Steve Rindsberg's PPT FAQ:
Play sounds across multiple slides (A WAV runs through it)
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00047.htm

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[Geetesh Bajaj]

Also look here:

http://www.indezine.com/products/powerpoint/ppsoundacross.html

Shyam Pillai's free add-in Music Span will do it automatically for you:

http://snipurl.com/musicspan

If you want the background music to be part of the presentation, use the
transitions sound method:

http://www.indezine.com/products/powerpoint/ppsoundacross.html#transition

If you want to loop the sounds across a looped presentation, look here:

http://www.indezine.com/notes/2004/08/how-do-i-loop-soundmusic-for-looped.html

And here are some free sound loops:

http://www.powerpointed.com/001100/music/


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