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title: "How can you play music for the duration of your slide show in PowerPoint?"  
description: "How can you play music for the duration of your slide show in PowerPoint?"  
author: "Kalin"  
published: 2022-03-29  
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category: "troubleshooting"  
tags: ["troubleshooting", "ms-powerpoint"]  
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# How can you play music for the duration of your slide show in PowerPoint?

How can you play [music](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/323661/master-your-music-with-these-free-desktop-mp3-and-audio-apps) for the [duration](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/45301/what-is-a-short-duration-discussion) of your [slide show in PowerPoint](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/96591/how-you-can-record-a-slide-show-in-powerpoint)?

## Answers

### Answer by Hitesh Vohra

**Steps to play music for the duration of your slide show in** [**PowerPoint**:](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/96602/how-you-can-customize-slide-layout-in-powerpoint)

- You can include a music in a presentation and have it play across slides in the background.
- If you wish to incorporate music from the internet in a presentation, you must first download it to your computer.
- **Select Audio** and then Audio on My PC from the **Insert tab.**
- Browse to the music file you wish to utilise in the file explorer, then **pick Insert.**
- Select **Play in Background** on the Playback tab with the audio icon selected on the slide.
- The audio file starts immediately during a slide presentation when you select Play in Background, and it also plays throughout numerous slides.

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