Sound playing in the background (no player popping up). How?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Evert Meulie esq.
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Evert Meulie esq.

Hi!

I've made a simple PP-slide with 4 images on it. The idea is that when
someone clicks on an image, a MP3-file should begin playing. When
someone then clicks on another image, the MP3-file connected to that
photo should play instead.

How do I get these MP3-files to play without any media player popping
up?


Greetz,
Evert Meulie
 
There are probably others ways of doing it, but I think I would create 4
additional slides, each with one of the photos on it and set the slide
transition to not transition on mouse click or automatically. On each of
the slides I would use Insert > Movies and Sounds > Sound from File to add
the appropriate sound file and set it to play automatically for that slide
only. Then I would create a rectangle the size of the slide and link it to
the first slide, and then give the rectangle no fill and no line to make it
invisible.

On the first slide, link each photo to the appropriate slide and the music
of choice will play. When the user clicks anywhere on the slide, it will
return them to the menu.
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Hi Evert,

if you are using PowerPoint 2002, you could have one slide only and start
the sound with a trigger animation, when clicking on the image. But you
can't stop it with the next mouseclick, it will play until the end of the
sound file. If the user clicks on the second image, you will have two MP3s
playing at the same time (at least with my sound card, this may differ using
different hardware).

Kind regards,
Ute
 
Well, you could set the sound with a stop effect, but if you've used a
trigger to start it, I think you have to click on that same trigger
object to stop it.

To add a stop effect, click the sound and use "add effect." Under Sound
Actions, choose Stop.

There probably is a way to do this in PPT 2002, but I sure can't find it
right now!
 
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