Adding music to Powerpoint

[Wilmslow]

My mum has put her South African game reserve pics onto a Powerpoint and wants to add 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' as backing music.

How do I do this??

Learned how to add as long as the cd is in the machine, but, can I add the music track to the Powerpoint presentation and auto-play??

[minstrel]

My mum has put her South African game reserve pics onto a Powerpoint and wants to add 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' as backing music.

How do I do this??

Learned how to add as long as the cd is in the machine, but, can I add the music track to the Powerpoint presentation and auto-play??

If you get the track as mp3 you can have that saved on local hard drive and link to that from Powerpoint.

The only way you can embed the track in the actual Powerpoint file is if you save it as a wav file and change Powerpoint options to include files > 100K as embedded rather than linked and do it that way. A wav file will probably be pretty huge though.

You can probably convert your CD to wav by just getting a 3.5m audio cable, feeding your headphone output into your mic input, playing the CD on your laptop and recording it in sound recorder.

Someone else will probably tell you a far more elegant way of doing it, but this way should work...

[minstrel]

Audacity is quite a good freeware app for manipulating sounds (mixing, fading etc). You can also convert mic input to mp3 or wav.

[HairyArsedBloke]

My mum has put her South African game reserve pics onto a Powerpoint and wants to add 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' as backing music.

[RichardCranium]

So your mother is not content with forcing people to look at her holiday photos but is doing so as a PowerPoint presentation?

FFS.

And wants to subject them to music too: "And NO TALKING AT THE BACK!"

Powerpoint furkin holiday snaps.

Jesus.

Kill your mother, then kill yourself.

[RichardCranium]

Oh, I give up. I just remembered I know a little something online that'll do the job nicely.

Wilmslow, try this linky.

[DimPrawn]

My mum has put her South African game reserve pics onto a Powerpoint and wants to add 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' as backing music.

How do I do this??

Learned how to add as long as the cd is in the machine, but, can I add the music track to the Powerpoint presentation and auto-play??

No run along and tidy your room before mummy gets home.

[NickFitz]

Might I just point out that a Google search for "powerpoint music" returns, as its first result, a detailed tutorial on how to do this?

[DS23]

Might I just point out that a Google search for "powerpoint music" returns, as its first result, a detailed tutorial on how to do this?

can one google for taste too? hang on, let me try...

edit. not easily, no. however i did learn that common vampire bats do not learn taste aversions. weird huh?

[RichardCranium]

Might I just point out that a Google search for "powerpoint music" returns, as its first result, a detailed tutorial on how to do this?

No.

But you may abuse Wilmslow for asking the question.