add music to iphoto slideshow

And they do not work. What do I do now? How do I drag my music to iphoto to make my slide show? Or add my own music to the slide show.

You can not "drag your music to iPhoto"

You must use the iPhoto interface to the iTunes library

Hve you looked at the iPhoto Help for adding music to a slideshow?

Add music to a slideshow

You can add music to your slideshow. iPhoto includes a selection of theme music, or you can use songs or playlists from iTunes, or songs from GarageBand.

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To add music to a slideshow:

1. Do one of the following:
   • Select the slideshow in the Source list, and then click the Music button in the toolbar. (If you’re in full-screen view, first exit it by clicking Full Screen in the toolbar. If you’re using Mac OS X v10.7 or later, move your pointer to the top of the screen, and then click the Full Screen button that appears in the top-right corner.)
   • While a slideshow is playing, move the pointer to make the slideshow controls appear, and then click the Music button:
2. In the Music Settings window, make sure the “Play music during slideshow” checkbox is selected.
3. Do one of the following:
   • To use one song for the whole slideshow, choose an option from the Source pop-up menu, and then select a song.To listen to a song, double-click it, or select it and click the Play button. To stop playing the song, click the Play button again.
   • To create a playlist of several songs, select “Custom Playlist for Slideshow,” and drag songs from the top list to the area below the checkbox. To reorder songs, drag them up or down in the list.
4. To adjust the slideshow length to the music (or vice versa), see Change slideshow settings.

To prevent slideshow music from playing, deselect “Play music during slideshow” in the Music Settings window.

Tip: If it takes a long time for a slideshow to start, it might be because the background music is a very large file. Try choosing a song with a smaller file size. To see a file’s size, open iTunes, select the song, and then choose File > Get Info.

LN

and when you follow the "Help" instructions given above exactlyh where does the process break down and exactly what happens?

LN

Can you give us a screenshot (use Grab from the Applications/Utilities folder) to show us what you see in iPhoto when you click on the Music button? This is what you should see:

When you click on the Source menu you should see this:

Click on the iTunes option in the list and all of the iTunes tracks will be displayed. Show us what you're seeing.

OT

Hello,

I have had the same exact problem as you but I finally figured it out...

1. Drag the music you want to add into our slideshow to your desktop

2. Then open your music settings and click on iTunes (still no music will show up)

3. Check the "Custom Playlist for Slideshow" bow then drag your music from the desktop into the box (make sure you do not click out of iPhoto or the music settings box with go away and this will not work)

4. Make sure both the "Custom Playlist for Slideshow" box and the "Play music during slideshow" box have been checked

5. select the music you want to be played and click choose

Your music should play after this 🙂

That will work only as long as the audio files you used remain on the Desktop. If you move them or delete them from the desktop the slideshow will again be silent. If you 're going to do that drag the from your iTunes library so that the tracks will remain there as long as you use the slideshow.

It's also a reply to a thread 2 1/2 years old...

jojoyahnThat worked perfectly. It's driving me insane that I can't use songs from my itunes. But, this is a great solution. Thanks!

I had the same problem. I had my photos and I wanted a particular song to play. I discovered that you have to make sure that NONE of the photos is selected when you click on the music tab, if one is selected then it won't work. It was an easy fix for me.

I had the same problem (playlists appearing, but no songs in the playlists), but most of my songs weren't downloaded from icloud into itunes on this computer. Once I downloaded a song, it appeared in the window.

OK, I am running OS 10.6.8, on an iMac and iPhoto 09. Found what worked for me after everything else on this thread and several others hadn't.

In iTunes-Playlist, un-click, the cloud icon by the song, under the iCloud iocn. As soon as I did this...The list showed in iPhoto Slide show music.Hope this helps.

Thank you @jojoyahn

That worked for me 🙂