Can't play CD audio track

S

Sue

I've been working on a PowerPoint presentation on two
computers, one with Windows XP Professional and PowerPoint
2003 and one with Windows 2000 Professional and PowerPoint
2002.

I have successfully run the presentation with CD audio
from both computers, but now the audio will only run on
the XP. On the Windows 2000, the CD begins to spin on the
first slide but then almost immediately stops. I have set
the tracks (begin track 4 time 00:00, end track 6 time
00:02), and set the CD to play for 115 slides (longer than
the presentation, actually) with Custom Animation.

Why does the CD stop as soon as it starts?
 
S

Sue

The XP (on which the audio will play) has two drives (DVD
and CD read/write). The 2000 has only one.

The 2000 has Media Player 5. I saw something about
PowerPoint 2003 being incompatible with Media Player 7
(but nothing about 5). I might try upgrading to the
current Media Player on the theory that PowerPoint 2003
might be incompatible with versions older than 7 as well.
-----Original Message-----
Does that computer have two CD drives?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]

I've been working on a PowerPoint presentation on two
computers, one with Windows XP Professional and PowerPoint
2003 and one with Windows 2000 Professional and PowerPoint
2002.

I have successfully run the presentation with CD audio
from both computers, but now the audio will only run on
the XP. On the Windows 2000, the CD begins to spin on the
first slide but then almost immediately stops. I have set
the tracks (begin track 4 time 00:00, end track 6 time
00:02), and set the CD to play for 115 slides (longer than
the presentation, actually) with Custom Animation.

Why does the CD stop as soon as it starts?


.
 
S

Sue

Postscript: I did upgrade Media Player to 9 and the CD still won't play on the 2000 machine. It was fine until I edited the presentation on the XP/PP2003 machine, so it has to be something about editing the presentation on XP/PP2003, then trying to play it with 2000/PP2002. Ideas anyone?
 

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