I would like to create a Photo slideshow and customize it using music of my choice. I downloaded an MP3 from the Free Music Archive but it was rejected as being an "unknown format". Is there any way to change the format? If not, what are my other options? I can't create my own music and need to use something instrumental that already exists. TYIA.
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 14.2
It depends on the system version. Before macOS 10.15 Catalina we could use any song from our music library in our slideshows that had no digital rights attached (no songs in the in the media kind "protected AAC Audio" or similar, also no song from -Music.) I could use all songs I created myself in GarageBand or Logic or recorded
Since Catalina it has changed. With every system Version I am in for a surprise, when I try to use my own songs.
On Sonoma I seem to be able to use many different songs from Music in a slideshow, as long as the song has been downloaded to the library and does not need downloading, but I can no longer use the songs I played myself on a guitar.
What I am doing on Sonoma to add my own music to a slideshow is to export the slideshow as a video, and then I add a soundtrack to the video in GarageBand or iMovie.
Photos slideshow has its limits, and this is one.
Try using iMovie, it will allow you to add your own created music created with GarageBand, or Logic.
Well it looks like photos now allows one to use any Music that’s in your Music library. I just tried with slide show and it worked.
Thank you. I'm confused in that Photo slideshow seems to allow use of my own music. Do I take that to mean only music created by me personally?
It's letting me use the music from one album and that one only. Everything else is grayed out.
Thanks, I'll try that.
Music for Photo slideshow
