I’m still having problems. I tried to add one of the audio files that came with Photoshop Elements. It seems to play fine. It’s an mp3 file. The audio files I really want to use are wma files. The mp3 audio file shows a length of 1:01. The wma files, which are 3 to 4 minutes long each and play fine in windows media play, won’t play in photoshow and show a length in photoshop of 0 minutes and 00 seconds. Is there something I can do to fix this?
As I recollect I did need to fiddle some to find how to alter the times and also how to add a Gap so that the music did not start at the very beginning. Not sure how well I can describe this – but I will try to describe what I did.
In order to delay the start of the music a certain amount of time I insereted a Gap at the beginning; I then selected the Gap in the list above and time that said zeroes lower in the Window. After clicking on the seconds or the minutes of the time, the up and down arrows would work to increase the time duration of the Gap. Next in the list near the top was the mp3 file that I had chosen for this slideshow and its duration. If you select on the line with the mp3 file name, you may be able to modify its duration also; I did not try that.
In summary, I think the key points may be that
-you need to select/highlight the name of the audio/music entry that you want to modify before you have the ability to modify the time durations in the lower corner – and –
-that you hightlight the seconds or minutes of that time to modify each separately.
Hope this makes sense.
Barb O
I have never used a WMA file, so I can’t help with that part.
Barb O
Barb O, thanks for taking the time to answer. However, that doesn’t really help. I was already selecting the file name at the top of the window and then trying to alter the start and length numbers in the blocks at the bottom. I now think the problem is that it’s not recognizing the wma file lengths correctly. It shows that their length is 0:00, but it’s really more like 4:00. I don’t know how to fix this problem.
Based on my limited experience with this stuff, it does seem that the time should have been automatically filled in when you added the music file to the slideshow.
Had the WMA file that you used been Imported to the Elements catalog?
Now this import should not be necessary because there is an add from folder choice – but since it is not working for you now, you might as well try importing the WMA file you wish to use to the Elements catalog if you had not done that already.
Barb O
Barb O,
Sounds like a good idea. How can I import a sound file? I know how to import a photo, but I can’t find a command to import other files.
Yes, it is not obvious – it is a Get Photos from Files and Folders – just as if it were a photo file.
Under the View menu, Media Types, you can actually choose to display Audio files in the Photo Browser.
Barb O
Thanks for the instructions about how to import the audio files. The importing worked and I changed the media types to include audio files. However, it still won’t play these 2 wma files. I tried to play them by clicking on their icons in the photo browser after importing them, and I also tried to play them when adding them to the slide show (there a sort of preview play button on the add audio window). It wouldn’t play them either way. It still show the files with o:oo length in the slide show edit audio window. However, when I play them in Windows Media Player, they play just fine and last 4:00+. Any other ideas! I appreciate you taking the time to try to help!
Sorry, I don’t have any more ideas.
Suggest that you check back again to see if anyone else posts additional ideas.
Barb O
