Default to windows media player

[Marion]

I am trying to play music from a cd during my powerpoint 2003 presentation. The music will not play in powerpoint when I click the music icon on my slide, but it plays fine if I open windows media player and play it from that program. I have several media players installed on my pc, and I'm wondering if the issue could be my default media player. How do I get powerpoint 2003 to use windows media player as default?

 

[Geetesh Bajaj]

By default, PowerPoint uses the MCI player. PowerPoint 2003, however is the
first version to use both the MCI and Windows Media Player. You'll find more
info here:

How PowerPoint 2003 Plays Multimedia Files in a Presentation -
http://snipurl.com/pp2003multimedia

You can also rip the music off the CD to a WAV file - this will provide more
control:

http://www.indezine.com/products/sound/conversion.html#cdtowav


--
Geetesh Bajaj, Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
http://www.indezine.com
http://www.powerpointed.com

Technical Specialist, PowerPoint Live
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I am trying to play music from a cd during my powerpoint 2003

presentation. The music will not play in powerpoint when I click the music
icon on my slide, but it plays fine if I open windows media player and play
it from that program. I have several media players installed on my pc, and
I'm wondering if the issue could be my default media player. How do I get
powerpoint 2003 to use windows media player as default?

 

[Echo S]

How did you set the sound to play -- that is, did you use Insert/Sound/From File or did you use Insert/CD Track or what?

Is it a sound file on a CD-ROM (such as a WAV or MP3), or is it a CD-audio (like you'd put in your car stereo)?