Play music across multiple slides in your slide show

You can add a song to a presentation and play it across slides in the background of your slide show.

If you want to use music from the web, you have to download it to your computer before you can use it in a presentation.

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To play a song across slides

1. On the Insert tab, select Audio, and then Audio on My PC.

2. In the file explorer, browse to the music file you want to use, and then select Insert.

3. With the audio icon selected on the slide, on the Playback tab, select Play in Background.

   

   Play in Background makes the audio file start automatically during a slide show and also makes the audio play across multiple slides.

Play multiple songs across multiple slides

If your slide show is longer than one song, you can add more songs. However, if you find that you're having trouble synchronizing the music with the slide show, you can use a third-party audio editing tool, such as Audacity®, to string the songs together into one file so they play continuously throughout the slide show.

Other related Help articles include:

• Video and audio file formats supported in PowerPoint

• Add or delete audio in your PowerPoint presentation

• Record a slide show with narration and slide timings

• Play music and other sounds automatically when a slide appears

To play a song across slides

1. On the Insert tab, select Audio, and then Audio from File.

2. In the file explorer, locate the music file you want to use and then select Insert.

3. With the audio icon selected on the slide, on the Playback tab, click the list named Start, and select Play across slides.

   

   (Play across slides also makes the audio file start automatically during a slide show.)

Play multiple songs across multiple slides

If your slide show is longer than one song, you can add more songs. However, if you find that you're having trouble synchronizing the music with the slide show, you can use a third-party audio editing tool, such as Audacity®, to string the songs together into one file so they play continuously throughout the slide show.

Other related Help articles include:

• Video and audio file formats supported in PowerPoint

• Add or delete audio in your PowerPoint presentation

• Record a slide show with narration and slide timings

• Play music and other sounds automatically when a slide appears

To play a song across slides

See Add or delete audio in your PowerPoint presentation.

Play multiple songs across multiple slides

If your slide show is longer than one song, you can add more songs. However, if you find that you're having trouble synchronizing the music with the slide show, you can use a third-party audio editing tool, such as Audacity®, to string the songs together into one file so they play continuously throughout the slide show.

To play a song across slides

Supported audio formats in  PowerPoint for the web are: MP3, WAV, M4A, AAC, and OGA

1. On the Insert tab, near the right end, select Audio.

2. In the file explorer, browse to the audio file you want to use, then select Open.

3. Select the audio icon on the canvas.

4. On the Audio tab or the Playback tab, select Play in Background.