Need music to play through more than 1 slide ...

Question

I'm new to Mac. I've used PowerPoint and was able to have music play until it ran out. I've edit music to fit my slideshow exactly and I'm using multiple music files in one slideshow. When I add music it stops once it transitions to the next slide. How do I get it to keep playing to the end? Thanks!

Answer 1

Greetings and welcome to the forum.
In order for a music track to play beyond a slide transition, the music must be created as a Soundtrack for the presentation, rather than imported to any individual slide.
To create a Soundtrack, go to the Inspector > Documents > Audio menu. Here you can select your audio track and assign it to the slideshow. If you need to combine several music tracks together to create the complete audio track, you will need to do this off-line.
The Soundtrack will begin playing together with the first slide of your slideshow and continue until the end of the audio. To get all of the Builds and Transitions in your slides to synchronize with the audio track, you will need to Record the track, which also can be done from this same window.
There are a number of caveats, however, the most significant being that not all "durations" will be reproduced accurately when you play back your slideshow. So, to keep things fairly closely in sync, it is better to trigger the Builds and Transitions on a Click as the Soundtrack progresses, rather than try to rely on Automatic effects.
Also, remember that if you do have a Soundtrack, you need to remove any individual audio tracks you may have imported into any slides. Otherwise, they will play simultaneously when the slide comes up.
Good luck.