ITunes Playlist for a slideshow?

Is it possible to combine songs in an iTunes playlist and use the playlist (containing more than one song/audio file) as the soundtrack to a slideshow in iDVD 5? If so, is it as easy as dragging the playlist icon to the audio button in the canvas?

Hi Walt:
Open GB and simply drag them to the track.
Export to iTunes
Open in iDVD.
Hope that makes sense!
Sue

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backup, delete, restore/reload
And invest in SoftRAID for your driver for all drives but esp. for mirror.
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//Message was edited by: Stoic18
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