Adding audio to keynote

Hi I am new to keynote and was trying to make a slideshow and i don't know how to add audio
i know you can drag a mp3 to one page but then when i click to go to the next page the song stops
and if i add a soundtrack then when i export it there is the slideshow with no music and the soundtrack in a different fonder
please help me all i want to do it make it so through out the whole slideshow there is music
thanks.
NiC.k

With the first slide open, you open the Document Inspector, click on Audio, drag the soundtrack to the empty box and click on Play. You can also choose Play once or Loop. MY problem now is how to stop it =).

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I imported audio (a WAV file) to a newly-created audio track (Audio 4), and presto-change-o! my Sceneline contracted to a single frame that contains the video for the whole movie (3 mins. long). Previously, the Sceneline showed dozens of clips individually. If I clicked Play in either the Sceneline or Timeline, the movie still played normally.
Realizing that the Soundtrack was empty, I figured maybe I should have added the audio there, and maybe adding it where I did, in Audio 4, caused the disruption to the Sceneline. (I couldn't imagine why it should, but still...)
I deleted the recently-added audio, clicked on Audio 2 (the primary video track is Video 2, with opacity clips in Video 3), and clicked "Delete Empty Tracks," which got rid of my newly-created Audio 4.
This did not restore the Sceneline to its previous state.
In added the audio file to the Soundtrack. No change to the Sceneline.
The movie plays okay, including the new audio track, but with the Sceneline all compressed into one frame, I can't move clips or do any of the other editing tasks that are fast and easy in the Sceneline.
Anybody got an idea how I can restore my Sceneline?
John B

YES! That did it. Thanks, Robert. I had no idea pressing the backslash compresses the Timeline to show the whole movie, or that you could lasso a track. Nice to know.
What I did know, and what gave me brief trouble, is that when you try to drag a clip or a track vertically in the Timeline to a track or position that's not visible, dragging up or down does *not* force the tracks to scroll in the direction you want to go.
But I found that once I had the primary video/audio track lassoed, if I hit Ctrl-C (Copy) with my other hand, it did in fact copy what I had in the lasso. I then clicked the empty Video 1 / Audio 1 track, typed Ctrl-V (Paste), and the primary video/audio track copied into place.
And yes, with the primary video back in Video 1, all the clips once again display normally in the Sceneline, solving my original problem.
Thanks to Bill, Steve and Robert for contributing to the solution.
PROBLEM SOLVED, and important lesson learned: Don't let anything displace the primary video from Video 1.
John B

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