A Windows Media Audio sound file does not play continuously in a PowerPoint 2003 presentation

When you play a Microsoft Windows Media Audio (WMA) sound file in a Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 presentation, the sound file stops playing after playing only one time. The sound file does not play continuously.

This issue may occur when all the following conditions are true:

• The Loop until stopped option is selected.
  
  Note To select the Loop until stopped option for the WMA sound file in your PowerPoint 2003 presentation, right-click the sound object, and then click Edit Sound Object.
• The WMA sound file is copy-protected with Microsoft Digital Rights Management (DRM).

To work around this issue, obtain a copy of the WMA sound file that is not copy-protected with Digital Rights Management.

This problem was first fixed in a hotfix that is now contained in a service pack. If you installed the latest Office 2003 service pack, you do not have to install the hotfix.

Service pack information

This problem is corrected in Office 2003 Service Pack 3. To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Office 2003. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Hotfix information

This issue is fixed in the PowerPoint 2003 post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package that is dated November 18, 2005. For more information about how to obtain this hotfix, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

For more information about Digital Rights Management in Microsoft Windows Media Player 10, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.This problem was first corrected in Office 2003 Service Pack 3.