Background music when changing photos

How can I control the background music that plays when I am viewing photo albums on the AppleTV? At the moment it seems to pick randomly from my entire music collection?

As I said, at the top of your photo menu (on the tv) you have an option 'slideshow settings' in the menu you get when you choose this, select 'music'. You then get a list of playlists from your itunes library, you can choose anyone of these as your background music, no need to make special slideshows in iphoto.
If you are watching synced photos as opposed to streamed ones, the playlists are limited to those playlists you have synced to the tv under the music settings.

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