Inserting+Music+into+a+PowerPoint

Here's how to play a CD track in your slide show.
There are 2 procedures to go through.

First: Insert, Movies & Sounds, Play CD Audio Track. A dialog box will come up and you should choose the starting and ending tracks and loop until stopped if desired. When you click "OK," another box will appear asking if you want the sound to play automatically on the slide. Choose yes.

icon and choose "format picture...". I often use the watermark setting on the picture tab and then adjust the brightness and contrast until the icon is no longer noticeable. You can use the preview button to check your progress.
 * If you desire the media icon on the slide to disappear, right click on the

Step Two: Choose Slide Show, Custom Animation. Select Media and on the Multimedia Settings tab select "continue slide show." That will keep the tunes rolling as your slide show proceeds.

I hope this is what you wanted. On a side note, I find that if I try to import the CD tracks into my presentation as a .wav file, the presentation becomes too large and requires too much memory from my computer causing crashes. I like to do the above and just play from a CD track to keep my system resources from getting bogged down.

Lara... the step needed here is to convert the .wav of .aiff file from the CD in to a MP3 file... it's about one tenth the size so it stores along with the presentation and does not bog down.