PowerPoint Mac 2004, audio file problem

External Since: Feb 26, 2008 Posts: 2

I just stumbled on this thread but it is adressing a problem I have been trying to solve for a while. As described by others, I sometimes get Windows .pps files with music imbedded. These are typically photo slide shows, sometimes with poetry, and classical music.

However, contrary to what has been discussed above, the slide shows play the music without any problems on a Windows PC with PPT 2002. But the music refuses to play on my Mac with PPT 2004. So it is clearly not an issue of the music file not having been included when the presentation was sent.

If I inspect the presentation, I can see that the music is in a .wav file associated with the slide transition for the first slide and the "Loop until next" check box is checked. All the other slide transitions have no sound associated. The music is obviously imbedded in the presentation as it will play by itself on the PC.

As sugested by Jim Gordon earlier, I checked the QuickTime Mime settings and WAVE audio is checked.

Any thoughts on what the problem could be and how to fix it.

TIA. Yves.

External Since: Mar 03, 2008 Posts: 17

Yves Dussault wrote:
> I just stumbled on this thread but it is adressing a problem I have been trying to solve for a while. As described by others, I sometimes get Windows .pps files with music imbedded. These are typically photo slide shows, sometimes with poetry, and classical music.
>
> However, contrary to what has been discussed above, the slide shows play the music without any problems on a Windows PC with PPT 2002. But the music refuses to play on my Mac with PPT 2004. So it is clearly not an issue of the music file not having been included when the presentation was sent.
>
> If I inspect the presentation, I can see that the music is in a .wav file associated with the slide transition for the first slide and the "Loop until next" check box is checked. All the other slide transitions have no sound associated. The music is obviously imbedded in the presentation as it will play by itself on the PC.
>
> As sugested by Jim Gordon earlier, I checked the QuickTime Mime settings and WAVE audio is checked.
>
> Any thoughts on what the problem could be and how to fix it.
>
> TIA. Yves.

Hi,

If you provide a download link we can take a look at the file and try it
on our machines.

Thanks.

-Jim

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