Music volumes

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I have created a presentation with a .wav narrative file associated with each slide. I also set up a .mp3 file to play in the background throughout the presentation. My problem is the volume of the two audio files. Is it possible to adjust the volumes separately

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Barbara
 
Barbara said:
I have created a presentation with a .wav narrative file associated with each slide. I also set up a .mp3 file to play in the background throughout the presentation. My problem is the volume of the two audio files. Is it possible to adjust the volumes separately?
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Not really. You will need to adjust the volume in a sound editing
program and then reinsert the sound files into PPT.
 
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Hello,

PowerPoint 2002 and PowerPoint 2003 provide per-media objecty volume
control for only some audio formats, even though the volume setting is
visible regardless of the audio format that you have inserted into
PowerPoint.

The sound volume setting is ignored for sound files which get their volume
control from the System volume settings. These include: CD Audio, .wav,
mid, midi, mp2, mp3, mpa and rmi

The sound volume setting works for other sound files including: aif, aiff,
aifc, .au, m3u, snd and wma. So the workarounds include:

* Convert you sound files to one of the formats where the volume can be
controlled in PowerPoint, or
* Edit the sounds outside of PowerPoint (changing their volume) before
insertinng them into PowerPoint.

If you (or anyone else reading this message) think that it is important to
have improved support for controlling and/or normalizing the audio volume
in PowerPoint (without have to resort to an add-in or VBA), don't forget to
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