Menus with background audio

hi, i have project in DVD Studio 4 Pro. I create Main menu with looping background music and two Submenus. how to create background music on Main menu, so when i go to Submenus, background music from Main menu will nonbreaking and continuesly play to Submenus.
sorry for main english. thanks to help.
  Mac OS X (10.4.4)   DVD Studio Pro version 4

Hi wedec - welcome to the discussions.
What you want can't be done on a standard DVD at all - there is no way to make the audio play continuously from menu to menu. If you look at any commercially produced disc you'll find that each menu has a different audio playing in the background of the menus, if there is any audio at all!

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