Can Keynote import multiple audio files onto one slide?

What I'm wanting to do is to bring 3-5 audio files from my iTunes player into one Keynote slide and have them not all play at the same time (very annoying), but have them play one after the other, sequentially. Is it possible with Keynote?

I work for a church and want to be able to leave the last slide up with multiple songs playing after the service so that there's 10-20 minutes of consecutive music without having to keep pressing "next slide".

I've looked all around this site and can't seem to find a direct answer. If you know how, please let me know.
Thanks!

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6), have iLife and iWork '09

Posted on Sep 12, 2009 2:37 PM

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Sep 12, 2009 6:22 PM in response to Admirle

Of course it is!!
First! Click on media button inside keynote. go to music and itunes and drag all the files you want, onto the slide. Anywhere. Doesn't matter.

Now you can close the media finder, and open the inspector. I think the second or third tab over is a yellow diamond which is the build tab.

Hit the open drawer on the bottom of that window and it will show you all of the actions of the slide. There is a box that should be unchecked on that window. Now when you select each audio track, go to the drop down window on the bottom of the drawer and it will say start after previous build. Or you can highlight them and select "start after previous build".

I don't have it in front of me but I tried to be as accurate as possible. If you have any other questions, go ahead and ask and I will answer!

Dec 16, 2009 5:24 AM in response to Tulse

I ended up using my Moto DROID to push my music. It looped a playlist and I controlled the fade on that, while controlling keynote slide audio on my macbook with the apple remote. It may sound confusing but it felt natural and timing was on. I also had a timer running on the DROID to see where I was, as far as timing goes, during the presentation. I personally don't like to use the 'presenter screen' so this worked out very well for me.

Dec 17, 2009 5:34 PM in response to Admirle

I just built my first Keynote presentation and used multiple vocal clips I recorded in Gargeband and saved as MP3 clips.

The shortcut to add them to the slide is Shift-Command-V (i.e., Choose...) then add a file. Sequence them to play using the inspectors animation button (yellow diamond, click "More Options" at bottom to open animation drawer. Click on the "speaker" icons on the slide that represent the clips (songs), and choose the only effect that is offered, "Start Audio". Leave it's time delay to zero, so it starts immediately after the last animation (or after slide transition if it is the first item in the animation drawer. Click the second song you want to play, and set it to Automatically After Build N. Then set its start delay to the time of the first song plus a few seconds. You will have to play with the second song (clip) delay to get it to start at the right time after the first one. You can do this indefinitely. Unfortunately Keynote does not understand the time of a song (clip) so you have to time them manually like this.

Hope this helps.

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