PowerPoint Presentations with Music

Don’t know about you, but I have been a bit hit and miss at getting sound to embed in my PowerPoint presentations. Sometimes it’s nice to have music run with the show! Usually it will run on my computer because I have linked it when I thought I had embedded it , or it will run and jam or it won’t run on another computer. Yesterday I nailed it.

1. Put everything in one folder – your music MP3, your photos, your PowerPoint presentation.
2. Download CDex from here: CDex
3. Open the program, go to the convert tab, click and select Add a RIFF-WAVE Header to MP2 or MP3 file.
4. Click on the dots to browse , select your file and convert. It happens so quickly you might think, like me, that it isn’t done.
5. Save the new file to your presentation folder.
6. Go to the sound icon in your PowerPoint ribbon and add the wav file which you now have. make sure you are on the first slide.
7. Go to animations and select start automatically and work out your slide transition and times. I put 5 seconds. I picked slow and the transition sound is No Sound.
8. You should now have a sound icon on your first slide.
9. Double click on the sound icon and you should get the sound options on the ribbon now.
10. Select Play across all slides for your sound option and 5000 for your file size.
11. Save your presentation.
12. Email it to your friends because you are so clever!