Audio problem PP 2002

At the beginning of my presentation I run audio through a series of slides.
Fine, works great. At the end of the presentation, I try to run the same
series - audio cuts off after 1st slide. Unless I jump out to the menu,
click on that slide, and view show from that point on - then the sound runs
through the slides as needed.

What's up?

Is this just one audio file? What are the custom animation settings? How many
slides did you set it to play thru? If you have continuous sound you can get
unexpected results when you break the flow of the presentation . Try setting it
to play for 999 slides. Does that help?
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials

"Daylight" wrote in message
...
At the beginning of my presentation I run audio through a series of slides.
Fine, works great. At the end of the presentation, I try to run the same
series - audio cuts off after 1st slide. Unless I jump out to the menu,
click on that slide, and view show from that point on - then the sound runs
through the slides as needed.

What's up?

Thanks for quick response, Sonia. Anxious to get this solved, if it can be.

Not sure what you are asking about audio file. This is a 45 slide
presentation. A CD with about 15 tracks accompanies. Many of the slides
have multiple images, animation, and sound, within a given slide. However,
at the beginning sound runs through a series of slides. Works fine.
However, when I try to repeat same series at the end (or a new series, even
only 2 slides), sound shuts off after first slide. Only if I break the
presentation, and start it again from that slide will it run correctly.

Experimenting a bit, I began to suspect a glitch in the program. I made
new presentations and always found that the earliest series of slides with
continuous sound run correctly. But any later ones do not. If I cut and
paste in a different order, it will always be only the earliest one that runs
right. Strange.

Never heard of this?



"Sonia" wrote:

Is this just one audio file? What are the custom animation settings? How many
slides did you set it to play thru? If you have continuous sound you can get
unexpected results when you break the flow of the presentation . Try setting it
to play for 999 slides. Does that help?
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials

"Daylight" wrote in message
...
At the beginning of my presentation I run audio through a series of slides.
Fine, works great. At the end of the presentation, I try to run the same
series - audio cuts off after 1st slide. Unless I jump out to the menu,
click on that slide, and view show from that point on - then the sound runs
through the slides as needed.

What's up?

Oh, by the way, the 999 suggestion did not help.

"Sonia" wrote:

Is this just one audio file? What are the custom animation settings? How many
slides did you set it to play thru? If you have continuous sound you can get
unexpected results when you break the flow of the presentation . Try setting it
to play for 999 slides. Does that help?
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials

"Daylight" wrote in message
...
At the beginning of my presentation I run audio through a series of slides.
Fine, works great. At the end of the presentation, I try to run the same
series - audio cuts off after 1st slide. Unless I jump out to the menu,
click on that slide, and view show from that point on - then the sound runs
through the slides as needed.

What's up?

I'm having trouble responding because without seeing the presentation I can't
see exactly what is happening. However, by jumping to another slide and
interrupting the flow of the presentation, you are probably experiencing the
fact that PowerPoint jumps to the end of the slide (after all animations on the
slide) so the music that is playing is not interrupted while on that slide.
Going to the next slide will cause entry at the beginning of the slide and the
music is stopped. It is difficult to explain, but when you use sound across
slides in PowerPoint, if you interrupt the sequential flow from slide to slide
you also interrupt the music.

"Daylight" wrote in message
...
Thanks for quick response, Sonia. Anxious to get this solved, if it can be.

Not sure what you are asking about audio file. This is a 45 slide
presentation. A CD with about 15 tracks accompanies. Many of the slides
have multiple images, animation, and sound, within a given slide. However,
at the beginning sound runs through a series of slides. Works fine.
However, when I try to repeat same series at the end (or a new series, even
only 2 slides), sound shuts off after first slide. Only if I break the
presentation, and start it again from that slide will it run correctly.

Experimenting a bit, I began to suspect a glitch in the program. I made
new presentations and always found that the earliest series of slides with
continuous sound run correctly. But any later ones do not. If I cut and
paste in a different order, it will always be only the earliest one that runs
right. Strange.

Never heard of this?



"Sonia" wrote:

Is this just one audio file? What are the custom animation settings? How
many
slides did you set it to play thru? If you have continuous sound you can
get
unexpected results when you break the flow of the presentation . Try
setting it
to play for 999 slides. Does that help?
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials

"Daylight" wrote in message
...
At the beginning of my presentation I run audio through a series of
slides.
Fine, works great. At the end of the presentation, I try to run the same
series - audio cuts off after 1st slide. Unless I jump out to the menu,
click on that slide, and view show from that point on - then the sound
runs
through the slides as needed.

What's up?

I must not be expressing myself clearly. You've misunderstood me. The
music is interrupted when the presentation flows normally.

I'm not talking about jumping ahead of animations on the slide.

Look, put simply, I seem to be unable to have audio play continuously
through a series of slides late in my presentation. For example, slides
2-10 of my presentation have continuous audio. Slides 11 - 35 are all
self-contained (their own audio, or none). Now, slides 36 - 44 are supposed
to have continous audio, but they don't work. The audio cuts after slide
36. If, however, I view presentation from that slide, instead of from
presentation beginning, the audio works correctly.

Early in the presentation, the function works. Later, it doesn't. Even if
I cut slides 2-10 and paste them toward the end of the presentation, the
audio will malfunction in the same way. Even though that same series works
in an earlier position in the presentation.



"Sonia" wrote:

I'm having trouble responding because without seeing the presentation I can't
see exactly what is happening. However, by jumping to another slide and
interrupting the flow of the presentation, you are probably experiencing the
fact that PowerPoint jumps to the end of the slide (after all animations on the
slide) so the music that is playing is not interrupted while on that slide.
Going to the next slide will cause entry at the beginning of the slide and the
music is stopped. It is difficult to explain, but when you use sound across
slides in PowerPoint, if you interrupt the sequential flow from slide to slide
you also interrupt the music.

"Daylight" wrote in message
...
Thanks for quick response, Sonia. Anxious to get this solved, if it can be.

Not sure what you are asking about audio file. This is a 45 slide
presentation. A CD with about 15 tracks accompanies. Many of the slides
have multiple images, animation, and sound, within a given slide. However,
at the beginning sound runs through a series of slides. Works fine.
However, when I try to repeat same series at the end (or a new series, even
only 2 slides), sound shuts off after first slide. Only if I break the
presentation, and start it again from that slide will it run correctly.

Experimenting a bit, I began to suspect a glitch in the program. I made
new presentations and always found that the earliest series of slides with
continuous sound run correctly. But any later ones do not. If I cut and
paste in a different order, it will always be only the earliest one that runs
right. Strange.

Never heard of this?



"Sonia" wrote:

Is this just one audio file? What are the custom animation settings? How
many
slides did you set it to play thru? If you have continuous sound you can
get
unexpected results when you break the flow of the presentation . Try
setting it
to play for 999 slides. Does that help?
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials

"Daylight" wrote in message
...
At the beginning of my presentation I run audio through a series of
slides.
Fine, works great. At the end of the presentation, I try to run the same
series - audio cuts off after 1st slide. Unless I jump out to the menu,
click on that slide, and view show from that point on - then the sound
runs
through the slides as needed.

What's up?

Thanks. That helps. I clearly wasn't getting the picture.

I hope this helps. From the FAQ at
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00047.htm:

NOTES:
If you're having difficulty playing more than one CD audio track in a PPT
2002/XP presentation, it's because the settings need to be a little different
than what you'd expect in the custom animation pane Effects tab.


For example, your presentation has 100 slides. You want the first CD track to
play from slides 1-30 and the second CD track to play from slides 31-100.


Custom Animation Effects tab settings for the first CD track should be Start
Playing at Beginning, Stop Playing After 100 Slides. (If you put stop playing
after 30 slides as you'd expect to do, the second track won't play.)


Custom Animation Effects tab settings for the second CD track should also be
Start Playing at Beginning, Stop Playing After 100 Slides.


You can also put the 999 instead of 100 in the "Stop Playing After XXX Slides."
The point here is that you need to put at least the entire number of slides in
the presentation in that "Stop Playing After" box, not the actual number of
slides you want the sound to stop playing after.


"Daylight" wrote in message
...
I must not be expressing myself clearly. You've misunderstood me. The
music is interrupted when the presentation flows normally.

I'm not talking about jumping ahead of animations on the slide.

Look, put simply, I seem to be unable to have audio play continuously
through a series of slides late in my presentation. For example, slides
2-10 of my presentation have continuous audio. Slides 11 - 35 are all
self-contained (their own audio, or none). Now, slides 36 - 44 are supposed
to have continous audio, but they don't work. The audio cuts after slide
36. If, however, I view presentation from that slide, instead of from
presentation beginning, the audio works correctly.

Early in the presentation, the function works. Later, it doesn't. Even if
I cut slides 2-10 and paste them toward the end of the presentation, the
audio will malfunction in the same way. Even though that same series works
in an earlier position in the presentation.



"Sonia" wrote:

I'm having trouble responding because without seeing the presentation I
can't
see exactly what is happening. However, by jumping to another slide and
interrupting the flow of the presentation, you are probably experiencing the
fact that PowerPoint jumps to the end of the slide (after all animations on
the
slide) so the music that is playing is not interrupted while on that slide.
Going to the next slide will cause entry at the beginning of the slide and
the
music is stopped. It is difficult to explain, but when you use sound across
slides in PowerPoint, if you interrupt the sequential flow from slide to
slide
you also interrupt the music.

"Daylight" wrote in message
...
Thanks for quick response, Sonia. Anxious to get this solved, if it can
be.

Not sure what you are asking about audio file. This is a 45 slide
presentation. A CD with about 15 tracks accompanies. Many of the
slides
have multiple images, animation, and sound, within a given slide.
However,
at the beginning sound runs through a series of slides. Works fine.
However, when I try to repeat same series at the end (or a new series,
even
only 2 slides), sound shuts off after first slide. Only if I break the
presentation, and start it again from that slide will it run correctly.

Experimenting a bit, I began to suspect a glitch in the program. I made
new presentations and always found that the earliest series of slides with
continuous sound run correctly. But any later ones do not. If I cut an
d
paste in a different order, it will always be only the earliest one that
runs
right. Strange.

Never heard of this?



"Sonia" wrote:

Is this just one audio file? What are the custom animation settings?
How
many
slides did you set it to play thru? If you have continuous sound you
can
get
unexpected results when you break the flow of the presentation . Try
setting it
to play for 999 slides. Does that help?
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials

"Daylight" wrote in message
...
At the beginning of my presentation I run audio through a series of
slides.
Fine, works great. At the end of the presentation, I try to run the
same
series - audio cuts off after 1st slide. Unless I jump out to the
menu,
click on that slide, and view show from that point on - then the sound
runs
through the slides as needed.

What's up?

Thanks. I think we're getting somewhere. Now, does this mean that anytime
I play an audio track in the presentation (even just within one slide) I need
to put 999 in the 'stop playing'?

Also, how do I get a track to stop playing after, say, 10 slides, if I've
told it to run for 999?

Also, there are a number of slides in the presentation where the audio stops
playing "after current slide". Must I change all of those as well?

A number of slides with audio are followed by slides with no audio. So it's
not like a new audio will override the old.




"Sonia" wrote:

Thanks. That helps. I clearly wasn't getting the picture.

I hope this helps. From the FAQ at
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00047.htm:

NOTES:
If you're having difficulty playing more than one CD audio track in a PPT
2002/XP presentation, it's because the settings need to be a little different
than what you'd expect in the custom animation pane Effects tab.


For example, your presentation has 100 slides. You want the first CD track to
play from slides 1-30 and the second CD track to play from slides 31-100.


Custom Animation Effects tab settings for the first CD track should be Start
Playing at Beginning, Stop Playing After 100 Slides. (If you put stop playing
after 30 slides as you'd expect to do, the second track won't play.)


Custom Animation Effects tab settings for the second CD track should also be
Start Playing at Beginning, Stop Playing After 100 Slides.


You can also put the 999 instead of 100 in the "Stop Playing After XXX Slides."
The point here is that you need to put at least the entire number of slides in
the presentation in that "Stop Playing After" box, not the actual number of
slides you want the sound to stop playing after.


"Daylight" wrote in message
...
I must not be expressing myself clearly. You've misunderstood me. The
music is interrupted when the presentation flows normally.

I'm not talking about jumping ahead of animations on the slide.

Look, put simply, I seem to be unable to have audio play continuously
through a series of slides late in my presentation. For example, slides
2-10 of my presentation have continuous audio. Slides 11 - 35 are all
self-contained (their own audio, or none). Now, slides 36 - 44 are supposed
to have continous audio, but they don't work. The audio cuts after slide
36. If, however, I view presentation from that slide, instead of from
presentation beginning, the audio works correctly.

Early in the presentation, the function works. Later, it doesn't. Even if
I cut slides 2-10 and paste them toward the end of the presentation, the
audio will malfunction in the same way. Even though that same series works
in an earlier position in the presentation.



"Sonia" wrote:

I'm having trouble responding because without seeing the presentation I
can't
see exactly what is happening. However, by jumping to another slide and
interrupting the flow of the presentation, you are probably experiencing the
fact that PowerPoint jumps to the end of the slide (after all animations on
the
slide) so the music that is playing is not interrupted while on that slide.
Going to the next slide will cause entry at the beginning of the slide and
the
music is stopped. It is difficult to explain, but when you use sound across
slides in PowerPoint, if you interrupt the sequential flow from slide to
slide
you also interrupt the music.

"Daylight" wrote in message
...
Thanks for quick response, Sonia. Anxious to get this solved, if it can
be.

Not sure what you are asking about audio file. This is a 45 slide
presentation. A CD with about 15 tracks accompanies. Many of the
slides
have multiple images, animation, and sound, within a given slide.
However,
at the beginning sound runs through a series of slides. Works fine.
However, when I try to repeat same series at the end (or a new series,
even
only 2 slides), sound shuts off after first slide. Only if I break the
presentation, and start it again from that slide will it run correctly.

Experimenting a bit, I began to suspect a glitch in the program. I made
new presentations and always found that the earliest series of slides with
continuous sound run correctly. But any later ones do not. If I cut an
d
paste in a different order, it will always be only the earliest one that
runs
right. Strange.

Never heard of this?



"Sonia" wrote:

Is this just one audio file? What are the custom animation settings?
How
many
slides did you set it to play thru? If you have continuous sound you
can
get
unexpected results when you break the flow of the presentation . Try
setting it
to play for 999 slides. Does that help?
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials

"Daylight" wrote in message
...
At the beginning of my presentation I run audio through a series of
slides.
Fine, works great. At the end of the presentation, I try to run the
same
series - audio cuts off after 1st slide. Unless I jump out to the
menu,
click on that slide, and view show from that point on - then the sound
runs
through the slides as needed.

What's up?

I can't test all of the variations here, so you'll need to experiment with the
settings. However, the link I gave you addresses the situation when you want a
track to play across multiple slides. If you only want to play a track for one
slide, there is a setting for stopping after current slide.

"Daylight" wrote in message
...
Thanks. I think we're getting somewhere. Now, does this mean that anytime
I play an audio track in the presentation (even just within one slide) I need
to put 999 in the 'stop playing'?

Also, how do I get a track to stop playing after, say, 10 slides, if I've
told it to run for 999?

Also, there are a number of slides in the presentation where the audio stops
playing "after current slide". Must I change all of those as well?

A number of slides with audio are followed by slides with no audio. So it's
not like a new audio will override the old.




"Sonia" wrote:

Thanks. That helps. I clearly wasn't getting the picture.

I hope this helps. From the FAQ at
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00047.htm:

NOTES:
If you're having difficulty playing more than one CD audio track in a PPT
2002/XP presentation, it's because the settings need to be a little
different
than what you'd expect in the custom animation pane Effects tab.


For example, your presentation has 100 slides. You want the first CD track
to
play from slides 1-30 and the second CD track to play from slides 31-100.


Custom Animation Effects tab settings for the first CD track should be Start
Playing at Beginning, Stop Playing After 100 Slides. (If you put stop
playing
after 30 slides as you'd expect to do, the second track won't play.)


Custom Animation Effects tab settings for the second CD track should also be
Start Playing at Beginning, Stop Playing After 100 Slides.


You can also put the 999 instead of 100 in the "Stop Playing After XXX
Slides."
The point here is that you need to put at least the entire number of slides
in
the presentation in that "Stop Playing After" box, not the actual number of
slides you want the sound to stop playing after.


"Daylight" wrote in message
...
I must not be expressing myself clearly. You've misunderstood me. The
music is interrupted when the presentation flows normally.

I'm not talking about jumping ahead of animations on the slide.

Look, put simply, I seem to be unable to have audio play continuously
through a series of slides late in my presentation. For example, slides
2-10 of my presentation have continuous audio. Slides 11 - 35 are all
self-contained (their own audio, or none). Now, slides 36 - 44 are
supposed
to have continous audio, but they don't work. The audio cuts after slide
36. If, however, I view presentation from that slide, instead of from
presentation beginning, the audio works correctly.

Early in the presentation, the function works. Later, it doesn't. Even
if
I cut slides 2-10 and paste them toward the end of the presentation, the
audio will malfunction in the same way. Even though that same series
works
in an earlier position in the presentation.



"Sonia" wrote:

I'm having trouble responding because without seeing the presentation I
can't
see exactly what is happening. However, by jumping to another slide and
interrupting the flow of the presentation, you are probably experiencing
the
fact that PowerPoint jumps to the end of the slide (after all animations
on
the
slide) so the music that is playing is not interrupted while on that
slide.
Going to the next slide will cause entry at the beginning of the slide
and
the
music is stopped. It is difficult to explain, but when you use sound
across
slides in PowerPoint, if you interrupt the sequential flow from slide to
slide
you also interrupt the music.

"Daylight" wrote in message
...
Thanks for quick response, Sonia. Anxious to get this solved, if it
can
be.

Not sure what you are asking about audio file. This is a 45 slide
presentation. A CD with about 15 tracks accompanies. Many of the
slides
have multiple images, animation, and sound, within a given slide.
However,
at the beginning sound runs through a series of slides. Works fine.
However, when I try to repeat same series at the end (or a new series,
even
only 2 slides), sound shuts off after first slide. Only if I break
the
presentation, and start it again from that slide will it run
correctly.

Experimenting a bit, I began to suspect a glitch in the program. I
made
new presentations and always found that the earliest series of slides
with
continuous sound run correctly. But any later ones do not. If I
cut an
d
paste in a different order, it will always be only the earliest one
that
runs
right. Strange.

Never heard of this?



"Sonia" wrote:

Is this just one audio file? What are the custom animation
settings?
How
many
slides did you set it to play thru? If you have continuous sound
you
can
get
unexpected results when you break the flow of the presentation .
Try
setting it
to play for 999 slides. Does that help?
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials

"Daylight" wrote in message
...
At the beginning of my presentation I run audio through a series
of
slides.
Fine, works great. At the end of the presentation, I try to run
the
same
series - audio cuts off after 1st slide. Unless I jump out to
the
menu,
click on that slide, and view show from that point on - then the
sound
runs
through the slides as needed.

What's up?

Since you have slides with no audio following the slides with audio, I think
you can put in the actual number of slides to span across instead of the
999.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

"Daylight" wrote in message
...
Thanks. I think we're getting somewhere. Now, does this mean that
anytime
I play an audio track in the presentation (even just within one slide) I
need
to put 999 in the 'stop playing'?

Also, how do I get a track to stop playing after, say, 10 slides, if I've
told it to run for 999?

Also, there are a number of slides in the presentation where the audio
stops
playing "after current slide". Must I change all of those as well?

A number of slides with audio are followed by slides with no audio. So
it's
not like a new audio will override the old.




"Sonia" wrote:

Thanks. That helps. I clearly wasn't getting the picture.

I hope this helps. From the FAQ at
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00047.htm:

NOTES:
If you're having difficulty playing more than one CD audio track in a
PPT
2002/XP presentation, it's because the settings need to be a little
different
than what you'd expect in the custom animation pane Effects tab.


For example, your presentation has 100 slides. You want the first CD
track to
play from slides 1-30 and the second CD track to play from slides
31-100.


Custom Animation Effects tab settings for the first CD track should be
Start
Playing at Beginning, Stop Playing After 100 Slides. (If you put stop
playing
after 30 slides as you'd expect to do, the second track won't play.)


Custom Animation Effects tab settings for the second CD track should
also be
Start Playing at Beginning, Stop Playing After 100 Slides.


You can also put the 999 instead of 100 in the "Stop Playing After XXX
Slides."
The point here is that you need to put at least the entire number of
slides in
the presentation in that "Stop Playing After" box, not the actual number
of
slides you want the sound to stop playing after.


"Daylight" wrote in message
...
I must not be expressing myself clearly. You've misunderstood me.
The
music is interrupted when the presentation flows normally.

I'm not talking about jumping ahead of animations on the slide.

Look, put simply, I seem to be unable to have audio play continuously
through a series of slides late in my presentation. For example,
slides
2-10 of my presentation have continuous audio. Slides 11 - 35 are
all
self-contained (their own audio, or none). Now, slides 36 - 44 are
supposed
to have continous audio, but they don't work. The audio cuts after
slide
36. If, however, I view presentation from that slide, instead of
from
presentation beginning, the audio works correctly.

Early in the presentation, the function works. Later, it doesn't.
Even if
I cut slides 2-10 and paste them toward the end of the presentation,
the
audio will malfunction in the same way. Even though that same
series works
in an earlier position in the presentation.



"Sonia" wrote:

I'm having trouble responding because without seeing the
presentation I
can't
see exactly what is happening. However, by jumping to another slide
and
interrupting the flow of the presentation, you are probably
experiencing the
fact that PowerPoint jumps to the end of the slide (after all
animations on
the
slide) so the music that is playing is not interrupted while on that
slide.
Going to the next slide will cause entry at the beginning of the
slide and
the
music is stopped. It is difficult to explain, but when you use
sound across
slides in PowerPoint, if you interrupt the sequential flow from
slide to
slide
you also interrupt the music.

"Daylight" wrote in message
...
Thanks for quick response, Sonia. Anxious to get this solved, if
it can
be.

Not sure what you are asking about audio file. This is a 45
slide
presentation. A CD with about 15 tracks accompanies. Many of
the
slides
have multiple images, animation, and sound, within a given slide.
However,
at the beginning sound runs through a series of slides. Works
fine.
However, when I try to repeat same series at the end (or a new
series,
even
only 2 slides), sound shuts off after first slide. Only if I
break the
presentation, and start it again from that slide will it run
correctly.

Experimenting a bit, I began to suspect a glitch in the program.
I made
new presentations and always found that the earliest series of
slides with
continuous sound run correctly. But any later ones do not. If
I cut an
d
paste in a different order, it will always be only the earliest
one that
runs
right. Strange.

Never heard of this?



"Sonia" wrote:

Is this just one audio file? What are the custom animation
settings?
How
many
slides did you set it to play thru? If you have continuous
sound you
can
get
unexpected results when you break the flow of the presentation .
Try
setting it
to play for 999 slides. Does that help?
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials

"Daylight" wrote in message
...
At the beginning of my presentation I run audio through a
series of
slides.
Fine, works great. At the end of the presentation, I try to
run the
same
series - audio cuts off after 1st slide. Unless I jump out
to the
menu,
click on that slide, and view show from that point on - then
the sound
runs
through the slides as needed.

What's up?