How to add Background Music for all slides in PowerPoint

In this step-by-step tutorial video, learn how to add music in your Microsoft PowerPoint presentation that plays automatically across all slides and loops until the presentation is over.
0:00 Introduction
0:55 Context on presentation
1:32 Insert audio or music into PowerPoint
2:10 File picker to select audio file
3:48 Set audio to play automatically & across all slides
4:43 Format audio icon
5:38 Advanced audio playback controls
6:03 Add bookmarks to audio
7:11 Trim audio
7:40 Fade audio in and out
7:50 Adjust volume
8:01 Audio options
9:49 Final look at presentation with music
10:10 Wrap up
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[@paladinricthie5189]

question please: what was the name of the music you were using on this video?

[@thara2110]

Any particular music format like wav or MP3 or any other format should it be converted? The music does not play

[@darnellesands8351]

Thank you. For your detailed tutorials

[@birtanemaskm7864]

How can I add music just for the timer. If the timer is one minut so the music will be for one minute and the last soumd will be another music to inform the student that time is up? It urgent please I was looking for it but can't find it.

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Thank you, Kevin. As an ordained minister I was not trained in making powerpoint or slideshows... now I have to do it all the time, as my church meets online, due to the pandemic. You make it all seem so easy! I really appreciate your approach, your clarity, and your pace. Many many thanks.

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[@luizpod974]

Great video! Thank you Kevin for all your efforts and preparing these videos. These are truly very quick, easy and informative. I truly enjoy watching your videos but have learnt a lot :)

[@joshuawells8197]

So odd that I used to know how to add audio, but for unknown reasons, I forgot how. You explained this so clearly and you are easy to understand whereas some others go too fast and I'd need to watch the video 4-5 times to get it. I'll sassily my music to the PPT I've done and let you know how it goes. Thank you so much!

[@trapstudios818]

Thank you so much Kevin for your amazing work! Now I can actually present my slides with music. Keep it up!!

[@voyagerone688]

A massive thank you Kevin! I had to produce my first ever presentation, just 10 minutes long, for my history degree and being in my 50's and not really an IT guru, had absolutely no idea how to do any of this. You are a saviour! Thank you so much for taking the time to produce and upload this guide. I now understand how to add the music, but now trying to figure out how to record my voice over the top of the music audio as narration with the music playing in the background still. I had considered just recording individual mp3 files for each piece of my voice narrative and adding in for each slide separately... maybe that will do the trick... wish me luck! 🙂 Thank you again for your help Kevin. This is such a well produced and easy to understand video.

[@chiaramendonca2287]

I just wanted to come in here and thank you from my heart for taking the time & efforts and creating such a helpful video on this. I've gone through it and used it in my ppt that I've had to make for a event today and I'm really grateful. ❤️ Thank you thank you thank you ❤️

[@GaryPaschkeSrGaryFPaschkeSr54]

Thank you Kevin. This helped me complete my slide show for my wife's parent's 80 birthday/60th wedding anniversary. The music added the finishing touches to my project.

[@chaslanning4518]

Wow another amazing tutorial par excellence. Short yet comprehensive and I learned a great deal today. Every ribbon icon was explained beautifully and understood immediately. Well done Kevin ... your on fire ... keep going!

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Hello Kevin, just found out your video today. This is what i am looking for. Thank you from the Philippines.

[@PhenomenalChezline]

As usual, great job! Thanks for the tip about that playing in the background feature. Really helpful.

[@lanicej5172]

Outstanding.... pressed for time to get music into a powerpoint, first time ever, and this video walked me through it with ease! Thankyou.

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Thank you!!! Your instruction is very clear and you already explained the problem i am experiencing...you are instructing like a teacher!!!

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Thank you very much for your videos. after searching for like two hours, I finally came across your video and they were very helpful. You explain it in a very detailed and slow voice which made it easier to follow along.

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The tutorials you share for PowerPoint were quite helpful in learning quickly. Thank you!

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[@wendymcclendon5554]

thank you so much for the visual and audio together and making really easy directions to follow I was able to produce a slide presentation for my fathers funeral in hours, your a life saver

[@davidboudreaux5681]

Kevin-Great job on explaining how to add and modify audio track into PPT. I need help with adding multiple background music tracks to a "rehearsal dinner" slideshow.

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Thank you for this. Really a great help for me. 🥰

[@josh_the_weeb]

Thank you so much for making this tutorial, I really don't know how to put background music but now I know. This is really helpful for my powerpoint project in school :)

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Hello Kevin! 🤗 I cannot even thank you enough for this detailed video! First of all, your Family Vacation Video is just precious! Really enjoyed seeing your photographs! Secondly, I had some terrible issue during Finals in my Tech Core class and I do sincerely appreciate your making this video! I aced my finals with your help in adding the music and following everything that you detailed. I am brand new to technology lol still learning how to type correctly! I am a retired truck driver and truck driver instructor so this techy stuff aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Altho I passed and I am thrilled, I am having trouble with exporting my presentation to Wix live. It posts but it will not play the presentation. It just shows slide by slide and that is it. 🙁 Fortunately that was not a part of the final grade and I did receive all points in the Rubric.4.0! I am going to look more into your videos and see why this is happening with the export and the presentation not playing. Again Kevin, thank you so very much! Wishing you and your beloved family all of the very best! 🌷 Most Sincerely, 🌼 Kati 🕊

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Thank you so much for helping me to add music! Your presentation was done so easily. Thanks!

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As usual, excellent Kevin! I just wish PowerPoint had a autoduck feature. I wanted to add very soft music to my lectures.

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Music added a nice touch to my presentation. Thank you for the video!

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Thanks for this. I was given a similar task for my department and I storm across this presentation. Thank you.

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One of the clearest, easiest to understand tutorials I've ever seen. Is it possible to mute the music on certain slides? If so, that might enhance the value of this terrific video.

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Kevin, Thank you so much! That was so helpful and exactly what I was looking for. And, love the family photos!

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Needed this for a prestation at work! THank you so much!

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Very well done - easy to follow and learn in about 12 minutes. Thank you.............

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ty , i needed this because i'm going to lead a prayer in our webinar and i'll be reading and presenting the slides with the prayer flash on the screen.

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Very cool ideal.This would work great at Christmas with family pictures and background holiday music

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[@ericburgess61]

Great video Kevin. Very helpful. One tip that I figured out on my own was that adding additional pieces of music is easy. You just keep clicking Add Audio and it will stack one on top of the other in the order you added. BUT... you have to unclick Loop Until Stopped because otherwise it will play the 1st and 2nd together once the 1st is done and then the 1st, 2nd and 3rd together...on and on.

[@iuperica]

I just tried this - I was clicked on the first slide and I added 5 .mp3 files. Unclicked loop until stopped but I did select rewind. When I started my slideshow, it was playing all 5 songs simultaneously. How do I get it to play one after the other?

[@ericburgess61]

@iuperica You have to attach the 2nd song in the slide where the first song ends. So let's say your first song lasts through slides 1 through 14. Then attach the 2nd song into slide 15. If necessary trim the 1st song so that it stops at the slide before the slide you want your first slide to start. Then on down the list to song 3, 4 ect. I'm not an expert and there might be a better way to do it, but that worked for me.

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Thank you for this tutorial. I was able to share 84 photos (101MB total) with audio as you instructed, at 0.5 seconds per slide, by saving it as a MP4 file which came out to be 16MB, which is easily sharable in Messenger, Hotmail, and Gmail.

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I was expecting the OPPOSITE. "Music for all slides" - of course I want DIFFERENT music for all slides! Thanks Mr. Helpful!

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For some odd reason, my professor requires we add music in the background of our PowerPoint Panton so here I am. Thank you for the easy to understand tutorial!

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Thank you soo much for explaining in detail for how to add a background music, luckily i meet you and now i can finally know how to trully add a background music. Thank you ^o^

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I've got SharePoint on my list. Stay tuned!

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