Audio problem PP 2002

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Daylight

At the beginning of my presentation I run audio through a series of slides.
Fine, works great. At the end of the presentation, I try to run the same
series - audio cuts off after 1st slide. Unless I jump out to the menu,
click on that slide, and view show from that point on - then the sound runs
through the slides as needed.

What's up?
 
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Sonia

Is this just one audio file? What are the custom animation settings? How many
slides did you set it to play thru? If you have continuous sound you can get
unexpected results when you break the flow of the presentation . Try setting it
to play for 999 slides. Does that help?
 
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Daylight

Thanks for quick response, Sonia. Anxious to get this solved, if it can be.

Not sure what you are asking about audio file. This is a 45 slide
presentation. A CD with about 15 tracks accompanies. Many of the slides
have multiple images, animation, and sound, within a given slide. However,
at the beginning sound runs through a series of slides. Works fine.
However, when I try to repeat same series at the end (or a new series, even
only 2 slides), sound shuts off after first slide. Only if I break the
presentation, and start it again from that slide will it run correctly.

Experimenting a bit, I began to suspect a glitch in the program. I made
new presentations and always found that the earliest series of slides with
continuous sound run correctly. But any later ones do not. If I cut and
paste in a different order, it will always be only the earliest one that runs
right. Strange.

Never heard of this?
 
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Daylight

Oh, by the way, the 999 suggestion did not help.

Sonia said:
Is this just one audio file? What are the custom animation settings? How many
slides did you set it to play thru? If you have continuous sound you can get
unexpected results when you break the flow of the presentation . Try setting it
to play for 999 slides. Does that help?
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
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Sonia

I'm having trouble responding because without seeing the presentation I can't
see exactly what is happening. However, by jumping to another slide and
interrupting the flow of the presentation, you are probably experiencing the
fact that PowerPoint jumps to the end of the slide (after all animations on the
slide) so the music that is playing is not interrupted while on that slide.
Going to the next slide will cause entry at the beginning of the slide and the
music is stopped. It is difficult to explain, but when you use sound across
slides in PowerPoint, if you interrupt the sequential flow from slide to slide
you also interrupt the music.
 
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Daylight

I must not be expressing myself clearly. You've misunderstood me. The
music is interrupted when the presentation flows normally.

I'm not talking about jumping ahead of animations on the slide.

Look, put simply, I seem to be unable to have audio play continuously
through a series of slides late in my presentation. For example, slides
2-10 of my presentation have continuous audio. Slides 11 - 35 are all
self-contained (their own audio, or none). Now, slides 36 - 44 are supposed
to have continous audio, but they don't work. The audio cuts after slide
36. If, however, I view presentation from that slide, instead of from
presentation beginning, the audio works correctly.

Early in the presentation, the function works. Later, it doesn't. Even if
I cut slides 2-10 and paste them toward the end of the presentation, the
audio will malfunction in the same way. Even though that same series works
in an earlier position in the presentation.
 
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Sonia

Thanks. That helps. I clearly wasn't getting the picture.

I hope this helps. From the FAQ at
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00047.htm:

NOTES:
If you're having difficulty playing more than one CD audio track in a PPT
2002/XP presentation, it's because the settings need to be a little different
than what you'd expect in the custom animation pane Effects tab.


For example, your presentation has 100 slides. You want the first CD track to
play from slides 1-30 and the second CD track to play from slides 31-100.


Custom Animation Effects tab settings for the first CD track should be Start
Playing at Beginning, Stop Playing After 100 Slides. (If you put stop playing
after 30 slides as you'd expect to do, the second track won't play.)


Custom Animation Effects tab settings for the second CD track should also be
Start Playing at Beginning, Stop Playing After 100 Slides.


You can also put the 999 instead of 100 in the "Stop Playing After XXX Slides."
The point here is that you need to put at least the entire number of slides in
the presentation in that "Stop Playing After" box, not the actual number of
slides you want the sound to stop playing after.
 
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Daylight

Thanks. I think we're getting somewhere. Now, does this mean that anytime
I play an audio track in the presentation (even just within one slide) I need
to put 999 in the 'stop playing'?

Also, how do I get a track to stop playing after, say, 10 slides, if I've
told it to run for 999?

Also, there are a number of slides in the presentation where the audio stops
playing "after current slide". Must I change all of those as well?

A number of slides with audio are followed by slides with no audio. So it's
not like a new audio will override the old.
 
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Sonia

I can't test all of the variations here, so you'll need to experiment with the
settings. However, the link I gave you addresses the situation when you want a
track to play across multiple slides. If you only want to play a track for one
slide, there is a setting for stopping after current slide.
 
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Echo S

Since you have slides with no audio following the slides with audio, I think
you can put in the actual number of slides to span across instead of the
999.
 
D

Daylight

Thanks again for the quick response. I was so hopeful the advice in the
link would help. Unfortunately, the problem persists.

It is very disruptive to this presentation (theatre) to break the continuity
(and mood) and leap out to the menu to restart the presentation from the
malfunctioning series of slides, but I don't seem to have any alternative.
 
D

Daylight

Thank you. I fixed the problem. But your answer and your link were only
partially correct. What I found is that every slide that uses audio --
whether across multiple slides, or only within one slide -- must be set to
stop after "999" or all slides. To leave even one slide with "stop after
current slide" was fatal, and would not allow me to play audio across
multiple slides anywhere after that slide. Again, I repeat, the "stop after
current slide" cannot be used anywhere, if you wish to run audio through
multiple slides later in the program. Add that to your troubleshooting book,
because I'm sure I'm not the first person to face this glitch.
 
D

Daylight

No, strangely, with PP 2002, it seems, you can never tell the audio to stop
after x number of slides, nor to stop after current slide -- if you desire to
run audio through multiple slides later in the presentation. (It is a big
handicap, and you have to find creative ways to stop the audio.)

There is one exception: the last series in the presentation, or the last
slide.

I have experimented with all of the permutations and combinations, and the
above is my finding.

Echo S said:
Since you have slides with no audio following the slides with audio, I think
you can put in the actual number of slides to span across instead of the
999.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

Daylight said:
Thanks. I think we're getting somewhere. Now, does this mean that anytime
I play an audio track in the presentation (even just within one slide) I need
to put 999 in the 'stop playing'?

Also, how do I get a track to stop playing after, say, 10 slides, if I've
told it to run for 999?

Also, there are a number of slides in the presentation where the audio stops
playing "after current slide". Must I change all of those as well?

A number of slides with audio are followed by slides with no audio. So it's
not like a new audio will override the old.
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
 
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Sonia

That is true (the 999 rule) for playing CD tracks. It does not apply when
playing sounds from files on your hard drive.
 
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Poor Rich

I'm sorry, I'm new and I dialed a wrong number. I do have an audio question
though. Would anyone care to help? I won't burden you with the details now.
Thank you for your time. Poor Rich
 
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Sonia

You'll need to fully describe your problem and tell us all the details, like
what version of PowerPoint, etc.
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com
 
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Echo S

Please do burden us with the details. We can't help if we don't know them!

Not sure what "wrong number" you dialed, but if you emailed someone, they
probably asked that you keep questions/information here in the newsgroup.
That's so that everyone can benefit from the exchange of ideas (and if
someone gives you bad advice, others will pop in with corrections). You'll
also usually get an answer faster than if you're just waiting for one person
to check email.
 
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Sam

can anyone tell me how i can run my audio file to play continuously
throughout my presentation? It stops and starts after each slide!?
 
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