korporal-kloggy Posted March 11, 2006 Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 Been helping a fellow member of our Photo Society build a show using PTE. The problem he's been having was with the music repeating itself, and also went silent in places.He'd loaded a number of .wma tracks which should have lasted longer then the picture duration, but on previewing one track kept repeating and didn't 'move' on to the next track. We even tried deleting all the music from the Music tab/Project Options and untick the 'Play Background Music' box but on selecting 'Preview' the same music would play. In the end I advised him to start a new project and rebuild his show from the beginning again.All music was loaded through Project options and none through individual slides. Another symptom was a text box kept appearing on one slide even though it had been 'removed' before running the 'preview'Any ideas what we're doing wrong?TIAJohn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stonemason Posted March 11, 2006 Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 Hi JohnAs a rule of thumb stay well away from wma files and use mp3. There can be problems with digital rights management if you use wma. Do a forum search as there has been much written about this topic.regardsGeoff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
korporal-kloggy Posted March 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 Hi JohnAs a rule of thumb stay well away from wma files and use mp3. There can be problems with digital rights management if you use wma. Do a forum search as there has been much written about this topic.regardsGeoffcheers GeoffIs this a license problem or a software problem as our Society is licensed for music, so the rights isn't an issue, but software protection might be?John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Cox Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 Johnthe wma files just give problems for some reasonconvert them to mp3 if you can and tryor for experimentation if you have a mp3 file try itken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stonemason Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 Hi JohnDigital rights management is a microsoft thing that is encoded into wma files as they are created to ensure that music downloaded from the web (legally) or is ripped from CD into wma format is not freely distributed. It can cause lots of seemingly random problems, and for this reason it is best to use a programme such as Audiograbber (freeware) to get your music onto the computer, and only to use mp3 format.Hope this helpsGeoff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Lyons Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 Hi John, I ageree with all who say use MP3 but I would also add that itis better if you canuse a sound editor to compile all your sound files into one MP3 for the sequence. When you use more than one P2E needs to load these as they are needed (More work for the processor) and this is why the sound can stop and arrive late. Remember an MP3 file is about 10% of a .wav fileAlan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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