Adding audio to a keynote presentation

I'm creating a large keynote presentation with 100+ pictures. I use various songs to play along during the slide show. I know how to get one in but don't know how to change tunes after the song is done. I want to fade one song then play another song with the next slide. I know how to do this in powerpoint but can't seem to figure it out for keynote.
Help!!!!
thanks.

I just gave a soud/synchronised keynote presentation in Portand to a large audience.
I built the presentation in 4 sections, each section about 7-10 minutes long.
I used Roxio's Jam and Toast to create sound tracks then matched the slides and transitions to the soundtracks. A few good programs to consider in addition to Toast are MP3 Trimmer (to cut the delays between tracks) and Audacity for more control over the audio transitions.
Keynote is awesome in so many ways with the wealth of cool effects and transitions that I kept with it even though frustrating in so many other ways.
Gradually I am putting the 4 sections together to a main score built in Toast but it takes a lot of time and patience to make even minor changes, running the whole program through to get it down right. I hear the music over and over in my head at night which does suck...
One problem that is a major high-suckage, is that various machines have different audio codecs / chips depending on sound cards. I built my entire production on my new Mac Quad Quad with 8 gigs of Ram and when I tried playing it on my G4 Mac Powerbook the show was between 3-7 slides behind the music score. Bigtime suckage. I tried a Firewire 800 external dirve and still no soap. Then I tried in on my G5 2 Ghz machine with 8 gigs of Ram and still the same 3-5 slide lag compared to the audio score.
I eneded up shipping my Quad Quad out to Portland and playing the entire presentation (over 500 images) and about 45 minutes in total with the many sections. The Quad X4 performed flawlessly, and I had the sections que'd up ready to go and had a black screen on the second monitor (the DVI Projector) and it all worked great much to my surprise, as I toggled the sound up and down via the keyboard.
I hope Keynote will eventually include Time Base corrections because the transitions and fades are among the best in the biz. Soooo frustrating at times to work with, but boy howdy, with the right high priced gear and plenty of crazy time to work on the presentation it can be awesome - just unbelievably awesome.
Try Mp3 Trimmer, Toast (or Jam) and Audacity for buildiing your scores. I didn't like GarageBand but I guess it would work. i-Movie just didn't do the same effects that keynote does, for me, and was a bigger learning curve then how quickly Keynote let me get on board.
Best wishes - if you build it they will come...
/\rt

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