Also, a simple way is to have the songs start and finish at a specific slide. Then you can do this:
(1) Go to your first slide(Or wherever you want the first song to start) and click on it.
(2) From the menu choose Insert> Movies and Sounds> Sound from a file
(3) locate your music file
(4) When a popup window stating "How do you want the sound to start on the slide show" click automatically
(5) Right click on the music icon and go to 'Custom Animation'
(6) Where it says whatever the name of your song is you right click on that and go to 'Effect Options'
(7) Where it says 'Start Playing', click 'From Begining', and where it says 'Stop Playing' select the number thing until it is the number of the slide of your presentation that you want the sound to stop
(8) Select the tab called "Sound Settings"
(9) Check the "Hide Icon during show" button.
Repeat the same process for the other sounds.
Then play your slide show.
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by: dandrakaPosted on 2009-10-13 at 00:15:01ID: 25557598
Hey there....regarding your question, it's a little complicated, but definetely doable.
(1) Insert your sounds/songs, one by one in the slide
(2) You will now need to adjust the timeline in powerpoint.
(3) locate the slide, and go to animations in the ribbon
(4) click on custom animations
(5) in the panel, click on one of the items, then select show advanced timeline in drop-down menu.
(6) Adjust the every item in the timeline at exact time as you want.
Just bare in mind that when you insert mp3 files in ppt, they are externally linked, which means that once your decide to burn on a DVD, the mp3s will be included in the output and create a much larger file to burn than a single ppt. Also, when you package your ppt for DVD, (office button -> publish -> package for cd), a powerpoint viewer will be included in the output, so your audience will view the presentation on dvd without powerpoint installed.
Good luck!