How Do I Extract the Sound Files from a PowerPoint Slide Show?
Friday November 28, 2008
I get emails quite regularly from people who have received a PowerPoint slide show (filename.pps), rather than a PowerPoint presentation file (filename.ppt). The slide show begins immediately when they double click on the file icon. The presentation is filled with lovely music, but they can't figure out how to get the embedded music out of the slide show to keep on their computer. So, how do you do this?
Converting the slide show to HTML format will extract all the objects that are embedded in the show. This article will quickly show you the steps. Extract Sounds Embedded in PowerPoint Slide Shows
Related
• Music and Sound Problems in PowerPoint
• Save PowerPoint Presentations as Web Pages
Converting the slide show to HTML format will extract all the objects that are embedded in the show. This article will quickly show you the steps. Extract Sounds Embedded in PowerPoint Slide Shows
Related
• Music and Sound Problems in PowerPoint
• Save PowerPoint Presentations as Web Pages
I’ve followed your instruction to extract music from PPT. I did find the file “sound001.wav”; however, when I double-click on it, it right away jumps to “End of Playback”. The detail of the file shows it has 646 KB and it’s a Winamp media file.
Could you please tell me how to extract the music because I still can’t hear any sound out of it, but the music is in the powerpoint slide show. Thanks.
Catherine,
If you double click on the WAV file and it opens in WinAmp that is because WinAmp is set on your computer as the default program to play a WAV file. Perhaps try opening another music program such as Windows Media Player or RealPlayer and then open the sound file from within the program, rather than double clicking on it to open.
I have successfully used Wendy’s method for extracting sound files from pps files a number of times, but today when I tried to save a recently received pps as html PowerPoint gave me an error message that reads, “PowerPoint found an error that it can’t correct. You should save presentations, quit, and then restart PowerPoint.” Does anyone know what could be wrong? I’m using PowerPoint 2000 and, as I mentioned, I have successfuly extracted music files using these instructions previously.
Thank you for your help.
First I would try a reboot of the computer to clear the error messages in RAM and try again. Following that, I would do a Windows update.
Microsoft has recently made several patches to their programs. I got a Windows update notification today with several new ones. Perhaps one of these fixes might solve the problem. Also, since you are using PowerPoint 2000, it is possible that Microsoft is no longer making patches for this version and you may have to update your version of Office/PowerPoint.
You could simply bypass all of that by changing the file extension to (.ppt) instead of (.pps) as the only difference between a power-point show and a power-point presentation is the way powerpoint opens the file.
Thanks much!. I looked in other sites which would offer me special tools to extract the sound. Your way is much better! Thanks.
I wanted to extract a beautiful song (Ernesto Cortazar – Autumn Rose) from a pps and today it worked for me also. If you didn’t heard this melody I offer you a moment of joy in return for your tip. Thanks Wendy !