no playback after adding music from a CD onto a powerpoint slide

[jmk]

After following all instructions there is no sound eminating from
presentation even though it seems the CD drive is being accessed. No problem
playing CD through media player. Is there additional software required to
play through ppt.
(At this stage I am still developing presentation)

Once this is resolved,and presentation has been developed, is it a matter of
copying .ppt and music tracks to CD, will the mucis play or not.

 

[kraves]

My suggestion would be to extract the CD (convert uswing MediaPlayer if you
like) to something like wav or wma. Keep this music file in the same
directory as the powerpoint file then never have to worry about the cd again.

Kyle.

 

[jmk]

I took your advice and copied the track using Windowa Media Player. It has a
..wma extension, but this isn't recognised in ppt when I try to insert sound
from a file. What next? How do I extract the file as a .wav?

 

[jmk]

Disregard previous reply, further attempts have gotten the music to
play.....thankyou for your help

 

[grannash]

How exactly does one go about 'extracting' using Media Player, in order to
get a .wav file? I have MP 9 and I used "copy from CD" and it didn't give me
a chance to say what file type I wanted, just gave me .wma, which I didn't
want.

 

[kraves]

Glad to help. (From memory WMplayer only does wma anyway)

 

[jmk]

I don't know - I got a .wma file, no option to select a file type.

sorry can't help you

 

[Michael Koerner]

Upgrade to WMP 10, it allows ripping to MP3. Which version of PowerPoint are
you using.