Presentation on CD can't find the sound!

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I added a very large sound file to a PowerPoint 2003 presenation, it worked
great. I copied the presentation and the sound file to a CD - it doesn't
work.

I think on the CD it is looking in the wrong patch for the sound files but I
can't for the life of me find the menu item where I can change the location
so that it looks on the CD, no matter what the drive letter is for the
person playing it. In fact I have looked through every menu I can think of
and can't find the name of the sound file listed anywhere.

The sound file is a person giving the presentation, it is in mp3 format. As
a .wav it is even bigger (1 GB!) It is not embedded, but how to I change
the location so the show knows where the sound is?

Thanks,
Mich
 
Different approach - - copy and paste the sound file to the same folder as
the presentation on your hard drive. Then open PowerPoint and open the
presentation from the hard drive. Delete the sound file. Reinsert the
sound file, but this time point to the copy that you pasted into the
presentation folder. Save the presentation. Now, burn both files to new CD
and test.

The key here is to create a "relative" path - - relative to the location of
the presentation. If they are both in the same folder, the path of the
sound file will point to the same location on the CD where the presentation
resides, instead of to your hard drive.
 
The CD was created from the .ppt and .mp3 in the same location, but I made
sure and burned it again; same results.

If I start the presentation in PowerPoint 2003 the sound starts
automatically and continues for the entire show as it should do.

For lower versions of PowerPoint it does not start automatically, in fact it
doesn't even start when the sound icon is clicked. The only way we can get
it to work is to start the .mp3 in Media Player then start the presentation.

This is not what we want. Most people don't have 2003 yet, but we want them
to get the speech along with the slides without having to run them
separately.

Any more ideas?
Mich
 
Did you insert the MP3 *AFTER* it was placed in the same folder as the
presentation? Just putting them in the same folder doesn't change the link.
From what you've told us the link is breaking. That is because it is
pointing to your hard drive.

See the following:

Links break when I move presentation (and at other times)
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00155.htm
 
No, I removed the sound icon, then reinserted it from the same folder as the
..ppt. I then burned them to CD.

I had read the referred website previously, and followed all suggestions -
the path is under 120 characters, but it being in the same folder should not
matter.

It still only runs automatically in 2003.

Mich
 
It could be that the other systems you are testing on are not able to play
the MP3 in the player that PowerPoint uses. Try a different test. Copy the
presentation and the MP3 to a folder on the hard drive on one of those
systems. Then go to Start > Run and type mplay32.exe (if using Win XP or
2000) or mplayer.exe. Then open the MP3 and click on play. If it doesn't
play then you'll want to read through the info at
http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/PowerPoint/multimedia.htm with special
attention to the third section and the one on codecs.
 
[CRITICAL UPDATE - Anyone using Office 2003 should install the critical
update as soon as possible. From PowerPoint, choose "Help -> Check for
Updates".]

Hello,

Are you using the "Package for CD" feature in PowerPoint 2003?

Since you are using PowerPoint 2003, the capability to save a presentation
to CD including all supporting (linked files) is built into the product
(Package for CD command). This solution bundles the presentation and, by
default, all of it's supporting (linked) files as well as the new
PowerPoint Viewer 2003 to a CD so that when the CD is loaded on to a
supported system the presentation will be opened up automatically in
PowerPoint Viewer 2003. Of course you don't have to include the Viewer or
make it an autorun CD but, instead, simply use the feature to package a
presentation and all of its supporting files to a CD for archiving or
transporting from one computer to another. If you are not running Windows
XP (required for burning the CD directly from within PowerPoint 2003) or do
not have a CD burner, the same feature (Package for CD) includes an option
to Save to Folder instead of CD so that you can create a portable,
distributable folder which can be moved to another system, server, etc.,
from outside of PowerPoint using any one of a number of 3rd party tools for
distributing large files.

If you (or anyone else reading this message) think that PowerPoint should
provide additional options for saving presentations to removable drives,
don't forget to send your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS, please) to Microsoft
at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

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