Running multiple soundtracks in iDVD slideshow?

Hi,
I'm creating a slideshow in iDVD and want background music to play as it progresses through my pictures. I'd like to play multiple songs, or portions of a song...not necessarily just run one 4 min song and have a bunch of photos run. Do I have to edit the music sepearately and save it as one sound file to run? If so how could I do this? Any suggesstions for software? What's the easiest way to integrate this in?
thanks.

Hi Brooks,
welcome to this forum
iDVD is mainly a socalled authoring app, creating videoDVD (from dv/video). for convenience purposes it has some very basic options to create content "from scratch", as slideshows...
what you have in mind (slides, effects, music, blends) should be done in some designated "content creator"=iMovie.
or, as you said, create a soundtrack first in an audio app, as Garageband or with the free app Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
to get a first look, look here
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/imovie/
(it's for iLife 6, but the basic concepts hadn't change sooo much)

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